Verrex Corporation Selects Blue Coat for WAN Optimization to Branch Offices and Remote Employees

October 6, 2008 7:45 AM EDT

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Verrex Corporation, a premier audiovisual integration firm, has selected Blue Coat(R) ProxySG(R) appliances and Blue Coat(R) ProxyClient(R) software to accelerate a key customer service and management application and file access to AutoCAD and Microsoft Office files for branch offices and remote employees. By deploying Blue Coat appliances in branch offices and software for employees working in the field, Verrex can provide headquarters-like application performance for users outside the corporate office.

"Providing our employees with fast access to files and applications directly translates to the responsiveness and quality of our customer service," said George Bird, director of Information Technology, Verrex Corporation. "Blue Coat delivered an end-to-end solution that accelerates files and applications to branch offices and remote employees, extending the performance and responsiveness of a headquarters experience to users in any location."

Verrex uses a customized help desk application based on Saleslogix software to ensure a high-quality service experience for customers. The company's field and service technicians rely on this application for scheduling, handling service tickets, maintaining service notes and history and managing customer relationships. With Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and ProxyClient software, the service application runs up to 7 times faster, enabling technicians in the field to work more efficiently. The acceleration is especially evident over Internet connections using a wireless card seated in the employee's PC.

Verrex employees often need to remotely access centrally-stored AutoCAD drawings, supporting documents and other files relating to customer installations. Access time to open or save these files can be up to 10 times faster using the Blue Coat solutions.

In addition, all Verrex employees have a log-in script run on their computers when they first connect to the network. The script synchronizes content from the user's computer to a file server for backup purposes and provides network administration functions. With the use of ProxyClient this process can run ten times faster for remote employees, alleviating a source of worker frustration and getting employees operational much faster.

"WAN optimization today means that enterprises need to accelerate applications and file access to remote employees as well as to branch offices," said Steve Rowland, vice president of sales, North America, Blue Coat Systems. "Through a combination of our ProxySG appliances and ProxyClient software, Blue Coat can make a dramatic improvement in a company's overall operations by reaching the entire organization with a solution for visibility, acceleration and control."

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems' Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2008 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Blue Coat, ProxySG, ProxyClient and the Blue Coat logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

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