Premier Alliances - Blue Coat

Blue Coat Solution

Blue Coat WAN Application Delivery solutions "stop the bad and accelerate the good," optimizing application performance and security for any user, anywhere, across a distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's proxy architecture completely understands users and applications on the network, affords granular control over security, and permits fast, secure delivery of all applications critical to running the business.

Blue Coat Systems is the world's largest provider of WAN Application Delivery solutions. Over 6,000 of the most demanding enterprises, including 93 from the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500®, trust Blue Coat to secure and accelerate mission-critical applications.

The Foundry Networks and Blue Coat Joint Solution

By adding the fully interoperable solution set of Foundry ServerIron traffic controllers and Blue Coat intelligent application appliances, service providers and large enterprises can promise reliable, consistent application delivery, security, and an excellent user experience. This powerful combination of network devices can easily scale as the user population expands and traffic amounts increase. ServerIron switches provide virtually unlimited scalability to Blue Coat devices. As content demand grows, simply slide in another Blue Coat appliance and configure the ServerIron switch to use the new resource.

Blue Coat and ServerIron provide tag-team security at multiple points in the network. Blue Coat's industry-leading security architecture addresses a wide range of requirements, including filtering Web content, preventing spyware and other malicious mobile code, scanning for viruses, inspecting encrypted SSL traffic, and controlling IM, VoIP, P2P, and streaming traffic.

The ServerIron  switches support a wide variety of intelligent security features, and combine these security features with high-end performance to act as a reliable last-line-of-defense for wide area networks. The SYN-Guard feature helps defeat most Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks that take advantage of the TCP connection handshake mechanisms. A comprehensive suite of application rate controls prevent abuse and attacks through legitimate connections and application transactions. Highly-intelligent layer 7 inspection and filtering capabilities embedded in the ServerIron TrafficWorks OS prevent sensitive data and information theft while protecting against service downtime.The combination of ServerIron switches' traffic management and load balancing features with the application acceleration technology in Blue Coat's intelligent appliances provides a high-performance environment for service providers and large enterprises.

Together Foundry and Blue Coat bring you these combined benefits:

• Web Servers are protected and accelerated
• Ensure high availability and performance across proxy farm
• Add extra security layer: DoS protection, SPAM mitigation and application firewall
• Better user experience serving content within the ISP network, and directing clients to the closest site via Global Server Load Balancing