Security

Blue Coat to create Market in Enterprise Application Solution

by VARINDIA 2010-04-14

The expansion of business of the Indian enterprises has led to the emergence of latest trends in the areas of data centre and application consolidation, mobile applications and remote access. This sort of emerging trends has led to the expansion of the market for secure content and application delivery in India. Blue Coat Systems, a Sunnyvale, California-based company with Virtual Netcomm Pvt. Ltd. as their value-added distributor in India, is set to exploit the market in these spaces. Currently, Blue Coat is number one in Proxy solution in the Indian market.

Indian OperationsIn the Indian market, Blue Coat is currently focussing on the expansion of its channel base, increasing geographical reach and also widening its reach to various verticals. The company has very well adapted itself to the local market and is of the belief that there is an immense potential, particularly in Proxy solution and URL Filtering. But at present this market is at a nascent stage. According to P. K. Lim, ManagiASEAN / ANZ, Blue Coat Systems,–“The growth of the company is very steady“– although not satisfactory – as the Indian enterprises have so far not shown interest in the secure proxy appliances, because most of them have deployed Linux Freeware for some applications such as email servers. With the increase in the threat of security and the absence of effective support, a difficulty in managing Freeware is arising day by day. The need to filter https rather than just http sites, the market is expected to grow manifold in the next few years.” Speaking about the growth of Blue Coat, P. K. Lim says,”“Compared to the last year, this year 400-per cent growth is registered and 100-per cent growth is expected in the coming years. Though it is just the beginning, we are still to consolidate presence in WAN Application Acceleration. Blue Coat Proxy solution including URL Filtering is highly accepted in the Indian market, specifically in the areas of next generation of SSL VPN and WAN Acceleration.”

Being a technically sound company, Blue Coat always thrives to focus on new technology from cashing to security, form Proxy solution to next-generation SSL VPN and from WAN acceleration to end-point security. With new and innovative technology in application acceleration, Blue Coat has always kept its pace in the technology game. Blue Coat Secures Web communications helps in the acceleration of 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 centres – provide intelligent points of policy-based control, enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance for all users and applications. According to P. K. Lim, “Blue Coat has installed more than 25,000 appliances worldwide.”

Apart from having one value-added distributor - Virtual Netcomm Pvt. Ltd., Blue Coat has got ten channel partners in India. To name a few Data Craft, Wipro, Apara and IT Secure are the leading ones.

The future plan of Blue Coat is to strongly focus on the consolidation of its presence in the Proxy market and target 20 to 25-per cent market share in the WAN Acceleration and SSL VPN segment. The company is also mulling over adding at least 100 new customers and 10 new channel partners by the beginning of the next year.

Products in the Arsenal

Currently, Blue Coat is offering a vast portfolio of products to cater to the business needs of the customers. Some of its product descriptions are as follows: Blue Coat Secures Web Communications and Accelerate Business Applications

Blue Coat SG Appliances – delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerates delivery of business applications.

Blue Coat AG Appliances – detects viruses, worms, spyware and Trojans at the Web gateway, with enterprise performance, manageability and a choice of AV engines.

Blue Coat RA Appliances – Blue Coat RA appliances allow organizations to extend rich application connectivity with integrated end-point security to remote employees, partners and customers. A single solution for both corporate-owned and unmanaged devices, Blue Coat RA appliances leverage the industry’s only application-independent proxy architecture and patent-pending Connector technology.

Application Acceleration – WAN Optimization Webinar – Mac5 Tech

*Trends affecting WAN and application performance globally

*Emerging technologies to accelerate WAN traffic and their pitfalls

*Achievable performance gains for the most important applications

Blue Coat Reporter – Blue Coat Reporter provides comprehensive, identity-based reporting on Web communications, enabling enterprises to evaluate Web policies and manage network resources more effectively.

Blue Coat Director – Powerful Platform for Comprehensive Management. It enables policy, configuration and device management for Blue Coat appliances. Built as a management appliance, Blue Coat Director reduces management cost and complexity by providing centralized management of distributed and remote Blue Coat appliances. Configuration, information and security policies are created and managed from a single easy-to-use interface available from any workstation with a Web browser.

Blue Coat’s appliances used in enterprises for live (streaming) video and video on-demand are a growing area for most organizations, principally for e-learning and training purposes.

At the bottom…

Although the Indian market is in its infancy stage in the WAN Acceleration and SSL VPN segments, it offers a huge potential for Blue Coat in the near future. The need of the hour for Blue Coat is to create a market for itself through creating awareness about enterprise application solution and security. Apart from educating the customers, the company should equally focus on developing the skill set of its channel partners through various sorts of programs.ng Director –