Blue Coat positioned in Leaders Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controller
Blue Coat Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers by Gartner, Inc. Blue Coat MACH5 WAN Optimization appliances and virtual appliances is believed to provide traditional and WAN optimization to reduce network costs and accelerate performance of important enterprise applications, file access, backup and email in addition to, live and on-demand video, Web content and Web-based and cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP, Blue Coat Systems said, "The requirements for WAN optimization are changing dramatically. The increasing adoption of video, Web-based applications and cloud computing services require that a next generation of WAN optimization solutions support new performance needs. Blue Coat uniquely addresses WAN optimization requirements for both traditional data types and applications, such as backup and disaster recovery, while also addressing the critical and growing need to accelerate cloud and Web-based applications and video."
The MACH5 solution includes video delivery function, and it supports Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, HTML5, QuickTime and Microsoft Window Media along with "one-sided" (asymmetric) acceleration technology to accelerate and reduce bandwidth requirements of cloud-delivered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and Web content with the use of a single appliance at the customer's location but without requiring a WAN optimization device in the cloud provider's infrastructure.
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