Seacor Picks Blue Coat

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that SEACOR Holdings Inc., a global provider of marine support and transportation services, has selected Blue Coat ProxySG® appliances to optimize its Wide Area Network (WAN) through providing visibility, security, control and acceleration of application traffic between its U.S. offices. In the future, SEACOR plans to add Blue Coat appliances to its international offices and some other smaller U.S. sites.

“We were impressed with the positive results WAN optimization brings to our branch offices and the range of benefits we received by deploying Blue Coat appliances,” said Ben Marino, manager of infrastructure systems and security, SEACOR. “Blue Coat appliances have helped us to improve the quality and capacity of our VoIP phone system, accelerate file access, reduce bandwidth consumption and provide an overall platform for visibility, security, control and acceleration of our business-critical applications.”

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