Blue Coat Systems Inc has entered into an agreement to acquire Crossbeam Systems Inc. The buyout brings two tech giants together for offering complementary technologies to scale and secure complex networks.
By acquiring Crossbeam, Blue Coat is laying the foundation for a broader strategy to transform the way businesses secure and optimize their networks.
“Our service provider and enterprise customers are excited that we are bringing together two complementary technologies,” said Greg Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Coat Systems.
Clark added, “With Crossbeam, Blue Coat gains a best-in-class support infrastructure and a high-performing platform that scales to meet the needs of even the most complex enterprise IT environments.”
New customer initiatives and an increasing number of devices accessing media content are driving the need for more capacity and performance in the network. Enabling these initiatives, however, often requires investments in additional networking and security solutions.
“As enterprises seek to improve corporate agility with mobile and cloud-based solutions, the dual demands for greater capacity and improved threat response force enterprises into a cycle of constantly expanding networking and security infrastructures,” said Christian Christiansen, IDC’s Program Vice-President of Security Products & Services.
The Crossbeam X-Series portfolio provides the scalable platform that allows businesses to consolidate their security and networking infrastructures. Combined with Blue Coat’s Unified Security solution, the X-Series is a control point in the network for managing applications that secure both inbound and outbound traffic from all users in any location.
