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White Paper
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A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
Caching is a widely-used, industry-recognized technology for improving user response time and minimizing bandwidth utilization. Today, this requirement is essential to keep up with the exponential increase in enterprise WAN traffic caused by server consolidation, centralization, and outsourcing. Read this white paper to learn more about the role of caching, how object caching and byte caching work, and how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
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Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
Delivering applications over long, skinny WAN pipelines is no easy feat, and the presence of impenetrable SSL tunnels made it impossible to accelerate a growing part of that traffic. To regain control over application delivery when almost anything business related is encrypted, organizations need SSL-aware solutions that can intercept, understand, and accelerate. Read this white paper to find out how, with the help of Blue Coat MACH5 technology, IT can once again gain control over their WAN links, accelerating the good and denying the bad, regardless of SSL encryption.
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Application Acceleration: Speeding up Business, Not Just Packets
This paper outlines MACH, and how it is is delivered in Blue Coat appliances, which means that it enables organizations to manage all of their user/application interactions – to stop undesirable applications, throttle less-important applications, differentiate users and groups, and accelerate critical applications – even when encrypted.
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Best Practices for Controlling Skype within the Enterprise
Skype is a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, founded by the creators of KazAa, the popular peer-to-peer technology. The network is defined by all users of the free desktop software application. As it comes to your organization, should you embrace it and its benefits or attempt to stop its progress?
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Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security
This paper elaborates on the various challenges driving the need for greater degrees of application performance and security. Subsequently, it will establish the benefits of having a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives acceleration and security – before identifying the key criteria for selecting a corresponding solution.
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Case Study
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Avocent Accelerates Critical Applications over WAN While Ensuring Distributed Web Security
This case study discusses how Blue Coat’s SG appliances accelerate file transfer, SSL encrypted traffic and other business-critical applications while delivering web security and control for Avocent.
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Charlotte County Public Schools: Accelerating Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL
This case study shows how Blue Coat can optimize a diverse network while providing the security and control needed to protect thousands of students and faculty from Internet-borne risks.
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Policy-Based Acceleration for Business Applications, Including SSL,While Adding Security and Control
Using Blue Coat’s SSL interception and MACH5 technology, this case study shows how Richardson Financial was able to exceed their customer’s expectations and improve the user experience.
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SNL Financial Accelerates Information Flow to and from Branch Offices
This case study discusses how Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate file Services and business-critical applications while delivering web security and control to SNL Financial.
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Podcast
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Gartner Secure Web Gateway podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats.
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Gartner Security Podcast
Listen as Gartner Security and Privacy analyst, Peter Firstbrook, advises enterprises on the changing nature of the threat landscape, and how security technologies are evolving to address new threats. The lead author of Gartner’s Secure Web Magic Quadrant will discuss the functions a secure web gateway must perform, in the face of performance requirements, encryption, and application-level threats.
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Malware Defenses
Blue Coat's Chief Scientist and its Security Expert discuss Malware Defenses and a new industry concept - the honey grid. The honey grid is like a community watch. Download this podcast to learn more.
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ProxyClient Podcast
Listen to this podcast to learn more about Blue Coat’s ProxyClient, and how it accelerates application performance and gives LAN-like performance for all of your enterprise locations.
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The Secret to Sizing WAN Optimization Appliances
Listen to this podcast to find out the true way to size and budget for your WAN Optimization projects. Relying on TCP connections alone may work for packet-level devices like routers, switches, and firewalls, but with sophisticated Layer 7 acceleration products, better understanding of the application layer is critical.
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Webcast
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Got Content? Making Rich Media Networking Work
After many delays, false-starts and disappointments, rich media is staging a silent return to the priority list of many organizations. Yet there were reasons for past disappointments: the latency-sensitive, bandwidth intensive nature of these applications makes them difficult and expensive to provision over existing networks. Learn what cost-effective techniques network administrators are using to support these demanding applications.
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Healthcare Industry Solutions Webinar: Network Systems Security and Application Acceleration
Healthcare providers face dueling challenges: get real-time patient information directly to the point of care, while storing data in secure locations. Providers need a way to expand existing network investments while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Join our webcast to hear how healthcare providers can solve WAN application-performance issues, while providing utmost security in preventing leakage of confidential patient information.
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Islands in the Clouds
With increasing reliance on the Internet and semi-public MPLS any-to-any networks, corporate infrastructure no longer resembles the fortress of old. Rather, it`s more a series of interconnected islands. This new model creates specific challenges and opportunities for the application delivery infrastructure. Explore security, control and network optimization ideas for successful application delivery in a sea of islands.
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Mobile WAN Optimization: How to Accelerate the Rest of Your Remote Users
For branch office dwellers, WAN optimization has emerged as the leading method to cope with poor application performance. What about the folks NOT in an office? How can organizations provide "in-office" application performance for these users? How can organizations deliver applications securely, given that their devices are connected directly to the public internet? Listen to Forrester Research expert Rob Whiteley.
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Network Computing Editorial Perspectives Webcast: WAN Optimization
The main promise of WAN Optimization is a vast LAN to LAN performance over a bandwidth constrained WAN. Vendor claims of 10-20X performance gains seem wildly optimistic, yet in testing and through customer testimonial, the performance gains are possible. Much depends on the traffic mix and the characteristics of the WAN.
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eWeek Podcast
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Revving Up Your WAN
eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza talks with eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst Henry Baltazar about Henry`s look at WAN acceleration products and technologies.
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Research Report
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Ashton, Metzler and Associates: The 2009 Handbook of Application Delivery
Over the last few years application delivery has become a priority for virtually all IT organizations. However, while many IT organizations have become better at application delivery, the majority of IT organizations struggle with this highly complex task. This handbook is designed to provide the end-to-end guidance that the typical white paper cannot provide. An unfortunate side affect of providing that guidance is that the handbook is lengthy. To compensate for that, this executive summary is intended to provide a summary of the key topics found in the handbook and to provide the online reader with a hyperlink to specific sections of the handbook that provide greater detail.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant WAN Optimization Controllers 2006
The market for WAN optimization controllers remains dynamic, with vendors offering different feature sets. Organizations should identify their specific needs and look to real-life trials before committing to any purchase.
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IDC: Managed Services Delivery - From Packets to Applications
Managed services have been a fixture of the enterprise networking space for quite some time now. Telecom carriers and other types of service providers have developed value-added extensions to connectivity services, typically involving the procurement, management, and monitoring of the access devices located at the customer premises. Currently, however, a number of business and technology issues are converging to create even greater opportunity in the managed services arena.
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Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway
Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbent providers have been slow to respond to changing demands, while new vendors are struggling to get the right product mix and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market.
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Webtorials: Application Acceleration Challenge
Accelerating and optimizing are not the only reason to implement an acceleration solution. An acceleration solution provides an important level of control over the WAN to make sure everything runs smoothly. For example, video and voice traffic can't be accelerated or optimized, it is already compressed. Bandwidth management techniques in accelerators can ensure that other traffic does not negatively impact voice traffic.
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Review
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Blue Coat SG800
Despite the fact that its byte-caching technology is only a couple of months old, Blue Coat Systems’ SG800 appliances performed reasonably well in our WAN acceleration tests. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Brief
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5 New Year’s Networking Resolutions for 2009
Time to ring out your old-school networking, ring in an Application Delivery Network. Let Blue Coat help make 2009 the year you get your network in shape (both performance-wise and economically). To kickoff a great year, here are some resolutions to set for yourself and the team.
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5 Reasons Why You Need Better Visibility of Your Network
Ever try hammering a nail with your eyes closed? That’s because you need visibility to perform certain tasks and finding a solution to your network is no different. This technology brief describes 5 reasons why you need better visibility with your network.
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Accelerating Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
End-to-end plans for turning disaster recovery into full business continuity are very complex, but from an IP-network perspective it can be reduced to three main challenges.
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Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
This brief discusses ways to dramatically improve remote file services using Blue Coat’s MACH5 suite of acceleration and control technologies.
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Application Brief: Streaming Media
Multiple users in a single branch office can quickly congest the WAN when trying to view the same content whether hosted in a datacenter or on the Internet. MACH5 technology improves the end user`s listening and viewing experience, by reducing and prioritizing bandwidth usage.
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Video
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Video on the Web - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on pre-population and stream splitting for video delivery. With Blue Coat you can enhance end-user experience by eliminating buffering pauses or choppiness, providing faster start times and smoother audio and video playback.
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WAN Optimization - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on WAN Optimization. No matter where your users work, Blue Coat solutions can accelerate application performance to LAN speeds – securely and cost-effectively. Apply policies to stop, speed up or slow down content. Make room for business critical applications and slow down recreational usage.
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Article
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Top 5 Myths on Direct-to-Net
Direct-to-Net (sometimes Referred to as Split Tunneling) means allowing users to access the Internet and download files and applications directly without “backhauling.” This article contains the top five most commonly held myths about Direct-to-Net.
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Top 5 WAN Optimization Myths
A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to a costly and incorrect IT investment, not to mention online downtime, potential data loss and/or corruption, and human resource wastage. Read this article to learn five of the most common WAN misperceptions and how to better address the issues.
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WAN Optimization for Executives
All users need fast, secure access to critical applications wherever they are working. Conversely, for ease of management, enhanced security and compliance, the trend is to consolidate applications and servers to fewer, centralized locations. In many cases, a centralized application is a poorly performing application. Read this article to find out why this is so often the case.
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