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White Paper
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Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle
It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new demands on their IT infrastructure and often unknowingly threatening their company’s security every day. Recent studies indicate that within three years, there will be over one billion mobile workers worldwide, so the problems of secure, fast, and reliable remote access will only escalate.
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Application Acceleration: Speeding up Business, Not Just Packets
This paper outlines MACH, and how it is is delivered in Blue Coat appliances, which means that it enables organizations to manage all of their user/application interactions – to stop undesirable applications, throttle less-important applications, differentiate users and groups, and accelerate critical applications – even when encrypted.
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Best Practices for Controlling Skype within the Enterprise
Skype is a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, founded by the creators of KazAa, the popular peer-to-peer technology. The network is defined by all users of the free desktop software application. As it comes to your organization, should you embrace it and its benefits or attempt to stop its progress?
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Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security
This paper elaborates on the various challenges driving the need for greater degrees of application performance and security. Subsequently, it will establish the benefits of having a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives acceleration and security – before identifying the key criteria for selecting a corresponding solution.
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Data Centric Security for Enterprise WANs
Enterprises of all kinds need to protect valuable data, whether to comply with industry regulations or to guard intellectual capital. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy—and common—for users to leak this data to outside parties, either accidentally or with malicious intent.
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Case Study
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Avocent Accelerates Critical Applications over WAN While Ensuring Distributed Web Security
This case study discusses how Blue Coat’s SG appliances accelerate file transfer, SSL encrypted traffic and other business-critical applications while delivering web security and control for Avocent.
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Charlotte County Public Schools: Accelerating Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL
This case study shows how Blue Coat can optimize a diverse network while providing the security and control needed to protect thousands of students and faculty from Internet-borne risks.
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Policy-Based Acceleration for Business Applications, Including SSL,While Adding Security and Control
Using Blue Coat’s SSL interception and MACH5 technology, this case study shows how Richardson Financial was able to exceed their customer’s expectations and improve the user experience.
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SNL Financial Accelerates Information Flow to and from Branch Offices
This case study discusses how Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate file Services and business-critical applications while delivering web security and control to SNL Financial.
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Podcast
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The Secret to Sizing WAN Optimization Appliances
Listen to this podcast to find out the true way to size and budget for your WAN Optimization projects. Relying on TCP connections alone may work for packet-level devices like routers, switches, and firewalls, but with sophisticated Layer 7 acceleration products, better understanding of the application layer is critical.
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ProxyClient Podcast
Listen to this podcast to learn more about Blue Coat’s ProxyClient, and how it accelerates application performance and gives LAN-like performance for all of your enterprise locations.
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Gartner Secure Web Gateway podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats.
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Transparency and WAN Optimization
Ever wonder what network transparency means with respect to application acceleration and WAN Optimization? Discover more about all aspects of transparency including: deployment options, network management tools and reporting, and what specific requirements to consider when investing in a WAN Optimization solution.
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Gartner Security Podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats. The lead author of Gartner’s Secure Web Magic Quadrant will discuss the functions a secure web gateway must perform, in the face of performance requirements, encryption, and application-level threats.
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Webcast
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Turning Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
Customers rely on business critical information; this makes it imperative for IT departments to protect against unexpected data loss from disasters. Both replication and backup involve large amounts of information transferred globally but limitations in the WAN can make it difficult to execute the plan effectively. A preventative plan in place should always include WAN acceleration to facilitate disaster recovery.
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Got Content? Making Rich Media Networking Work
After many delays, false-starts and disappointments, rich media is staging a silent return to the priority list of many organizations. Yet there were reasons for past disappointments: the latency-sensitive, bandwidth intensive nature of these applications makes them difficult and expensive to provision over existing networks. Learn what cost-effective techniques network administrators are using to support these demanding applications.
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Healthcare Industry Solutions Webinar: Network Systems Security and Application Acceleration
Healthcare providers face dueling challenges: get real-time patient information directly to the point of care, while storing data in secure locations. Providers need a way to expand existing network investments while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Join our webcast to hear how healthcare providers can solve WAN application-performance issues, while providing utmost security in preventing leakage of confidential patient information.
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Islands in the Clouds
With increasing reliance on the Internet and semi-public MPLS any-to-any networks, corporate infrastructure no longer resembles the fortress of old. Rather, it`s more a series of interconnected islands. This new model creates specific challenges and opportunities for the application delivery infrastructure. Explore security, control and network optimization ideas for successful application delivery in a sea of islands.
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Mobile WAN Optimization: How to Accelerate the Rest of Your Remote Users
For branch office dwellers, WAN optimization has emerged as the leading method to cope with poor application performance. What about the folks NOT in an office? How can organizations provide "in-office" application performance for these users? How can organizations deliver applications securely, given that their devices are connected directly to the public internet? Listen to Forrester Research expert Rob Whiteley.
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eWeek Podcast
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Revving Up Your WAN
eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza talks with eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Henry Baltazar about Henry`s look at WAN acceleration products and technologies.
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Research Report
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Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway
Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbent providers have been slow to respond, while new vendors are struggling to get the product mix right and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant WAN Optimization Controllers 2006
The market for WAN optimization controllers remains dynamic, with vendors offering different feature sets. Organizations should identify their specific needs and look to real-life trials before committing to any purchase.
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Review
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Blue Coat SG800
Despite the fact that its byte-caching technology is only a couple of months old, Blue Coat Systems’ SG800 appliances performed reasonably well in our WAN acceleration tests. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Brief
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Top 10 Ways to Protect Against Web Threats
This technology brief details the top 10 ways to secure and accelerate your business by thwarting many web attacks with protections at the Web Gateway.
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Top 10 Security Trends for 2008
Security threats still abound and some can be disastrous to company IT infrastructure and corporate data.
Download this tech brief to learn more about how to protect yourself.
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Accelerating Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
End-to-end plans for turning disaster recovery into full business continuity are very complex, but from an IP-network perspective it can be reduced to three main challenges.
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Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
This brief discusses ways to dramatically improve remote file services using Blue Coat’s MACH5 suite of acceleration and control technologies.
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Application Brief: Streaming Media
Multiple users in a single branch office can quickly congest the WAN when trying to view the same content whether hosted in a datacenter or on the Internet. MACH5 technology improves the end user`s listening and viewing experience, by reducing and prioritizing bandwidth usage.
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Video
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Video on the Web - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on pre-population and stream splitting for video delivery. With Blue Coat you can enhance end-user experience by eliminating buffering pauses or choppiness, providing faster start times and smoother audio and video playback.
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WAN Optimization - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on WAN Optimization. No matter where your users work, Blue Coat solutions can accelerate application performance to LAN speeds – securely and cost-effectively. Apply policies to stop, speed up or slow down content. Make room for business critical applications and slow down recreational usage.
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