Dubai- 20th November 2007: Blue Coat Systems, a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it will launch a regional road show that will focus on how to combine Web security and policy control with content and application acceleration.  At the road show, Blue Coat will demonstrate its Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization solution, which accelerates applications to branch and remote offices while also providing security and control.

Businesses all over the world are facing serious difficulty in keeping pace with the world's rapidly moving, globally competitive, connected environment. It is no longer enough to provide basic functions such as connectivity, file sharing, basic e-mail, and simple Web presence. It is critical that networks and applications are also able to link not only employees to each other, but also customers and partners. The increasing number of mobile users, work sites, and security threats, however, are putting increased pressure on the networks to be reliable and secure as well as accessible. Blue Coat's appliances are directed at providing a solution to these challenges. 

"Performance and security have traditionally been at odds--but not anymore," said Nidal Taha, Blue Coat Systems Middle East Regional Director. "The trade-off between security and performance forced companies to compromise security in exchange for network intelligence features and high performance, or vice versa. Blue Coat ProxySG appliances provide security and policy control and, at the same time, accelerate the delivery of content and applications.  With ProxySG appliances, there are no trade-offs between performance and security."

The locations for the road show are Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

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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 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.

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For more information, please contact:
Manal Abi Rafeh
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