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Benefits from ADN

by VARINDIA 2010-06-22

Today, applications may be delivered across the distributed enterprise from virtualized servers in consolidated data centres or as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) according to increasingly complex business requirements. Businesses that are facing these evolving requirements can significantly benefit from an Application Delivery Network (ADN) that combines three essential technologies – visibility, acceleration and security – in one seamlessly integrated infrastructure.

The Blue Coat ADN solutions deliver the intelligent control to centralize, mobilize and globalize IT infrastructure. With these solutions, IT administrators can optimize application and network performance across the distributed enterprise and meet the demand for greater application mobility and security in the changing global business environment.

For Better Visibility

PacketShaper 10000

Blue Coat application performance monitoring technologies are designed to help you discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user access in real time, including business-critical content and recreational traffic.

The Blue Coat PacketShaper appliance is the cornerstone of visibility in the ADN. It can identify more than 600 applications and monitor more than 100 metrics per application session, ensuring that business priorities come first with recreational and other activities taking place only when WAN bandwidth is available.

The PacketShaper interface features integrated workflows that display historical and real-time graphs of the applications that are running across the network, including peak bandwidth demands. The graphs also show the immediate impact of bandwidth management policies on the network.

By applying advanced bandwidth management policies to applications on the network, PacketShaper appliances help you reclaim bandwidth for other advanced business applications.

Gautam Sen, Senior Manager of Electronic Network at Blue Dart, an India-based air and integrated transportation, distribution and logistics company, said, “With PacketShaper appliances, we are optimizing our bandwidth by effectively monitoring and managing our applications. As a result, we have not only realized a full return on our investment in less than a year but also were able to deploy video conferencing in our branch offices without adding new bandwidth.”

For Smooth Acceleration

ProxySG9000

Blue Coat WAN Optimization technologies accelerate the delivery of business-critical applications to distributed users across the extended enterprise. ProxySG appliances optimize traditional protocols, such as CIFS and MAPI, as well as video, Web, SSL and SaaS, which require a unique set of advanced caching technologies to reduce bandwidth consumption.

With centralized management, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances can be configured remotely in one minute from headquarters, reducing
deployment and long-term management costs.

Creating Robust Security Cloud

The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution utilizes a hybrid design that combines the on-premise presence of the ProxySG and

ProxyAV appliances with the cloud-based WebPulse service for control at the Internet gateway and protection against Web-based threats. WebPulse, a collaborative defense that unites 62 million users, provides on-demand intelligence about the latest malware attacks and real-time analysis of unknown Web content and links for immediate and continuous protection.

The Blue Coat ProxySG appliance features a rich policy processing engine that offers granular control that enables enterprises to customize corporate IT policies for specific business requirements. The Blue Coat ADN infrastructure provides the visibility, acceleration and security that organizations require to improve employee's productivity, contain network bandwidth costs and align network investments with changing business requirements.