Industry Solutions

Financial Services:

Control costs while optimizing business performance and security

Financial services companies everywhere are using server consolidation, Web 2.0 applications, network convergence and cloud services to help increase business agility and security. While these initiatives can help you dramatically improve customer communication and data security, they also present complex IT management challenges. How can you cost-effectively manage and integrate all these services and applications onto one platform?

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) gives financial companies like yours an easier way to manage the costs of delivering secure applications across the distributed enterprise. By combining Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies into one complete infrastructure, the ADN enables you to:

• Ensure users can securely access critical information anytime, anywhere.
• Accelerate applications to branch offices across your distributed network.
• Control costs by maximizing existing network resources.
• Maintain compliance with all corporate IT policies and government regulations.

Healthcare:

The Diagnosis for Optimized Healthcare Networks

Delivering vital patient information to busy physicians can help them make critical decisions that save lives. But you also need to protect confidential information from threats such as spyware, malware and other schemes that can violate private medical records. Equally important, you need to monitor application performance to ensure access to the information providers need to deliver the best possible care. It’s a tall order. Do you have the right strategy in place to optimize and secure the delivery of your business applications?

If you struggle with slow, unpredictable access to applications and content, the Application Delivery Network (ADN) can help. By combining Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies in a single, comprehensive infrastructure, the Application Delivery Network enables healthcare providers to do what they do best: focus on the well-being of their patients. With the Application Delivery Network, healthcare providers can:

• Protect confidential patient information from sophisticated network attacks.
• Deliver essential network applications to branch offices and remote devices.
• Control costs by optimizing all their network resources.

Manufacturing:

Helping Businesses Stay Competitive in a Global Market

Global competition forces businesses everywhere to contain costs without cutting corners. You still have to communicate with partners, suppliers and customers in the most efficient way possible, but how can you improve your business processes and network infrastructure without increasing IT costs?

By implementing an Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure, you can increase application visibility, performance and security across your distributed enterprise. More importantly, you do it by optimizing your existing resources, not spending more money on additional network bandwidth and infrastructure. With the Application Delivery Network, you can leverage industry-leading Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to deliver:

• Faster, more secure applications across your distributed enterprise.
• Greater protection against spam, malware and other threats to your vital business data.
• More control over user access and recreational network use by enforcing corporate policies.

Education:

Provide the online learning tools students need

With so much competition for limited school funding, how can your institution afford the online learning tools students need to succeed in today’s global economy? Even if your budget covers the initial software and hardware purchases, the cost of maintaining network performance and security can prevent you from realizing the full potential of your applications. In addition, you face tough compliance standards with state and federal privacy laws. How can you do it all?

The Application Delivery Network (ADN) can help you meet all these challenges. By providing a comprehensive application delivery infrastructure that combines Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies, the Application Delivery Network enables you to:

• Accelerate eLearning applications across your distributed network.
• Ensure compliance with the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and associated access to e-rate funds.
• Create a safe online learning environment.
• Protect confidential student and employee records from loss, theft or corruption.
• Control recreational network use that threatens application performance and data security.

Government:

Deliver the Secure, Online Services Citizens Need. Anytime, Anywhere

No matter which branch of government you serve, one thing is true: you have to control spending. But you also have deliver reliable access to essential online services, protect your constituents’ personal, medical, financial and other data, and comply with all state and federal laws governing privacy and information access. All without significantly increasing your agency’s technology budget. How can you do it?

The Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure is a good place to start. The Application Delivery Network offers a comprehensive approach to application delivery by combining Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies in a single infrastructure. With the Application Delivery Network, you can:

• Save taxpayer money by leveraging underutilized resources
• Secure and accelerate network applications and critical online services
• See all the applications and users on the network
• Protect government and citizen information from malware and other Internet threats

With more than 8,000 customers worldwide, Blue Coat products have been field-proven in the most demanding network environments. Below is a partial list of our government and military customers.

Service Provider:

Delivering Services With Control Takes A Comprehensive Approach

For today’s service providers (SPs), maintaining a profitable business is tougher than ever. To stay competitive, you have to:

• More effectively manage bandwidth to better monetize your infrastructure and contain costs.
• Offer a consistently reliable and interactive user experience to drive customer loyalty.
• Stop malware that can compromise user data or disrupt the network.
• Meet consumer demand to filter harmful or inappropriate Web content.
• Grow your business with high-value managed services.

The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure can help you solve all these challenges. The Application Delivery Network provides a service-oriented platform that allows service providers to enhance and personalize the Web experience, reduce operational costs and create new opportunities for monetizing network traffic through revenue-generation services. With the Application Delivery Network, you can leverage industry-leading Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to deliver the fast, secure Web applications your customers demand.

Blue Coat is the technology leader in application delivery networking. Serving all ten of the largest global service providers, Blue Coat is uniquely qualified to deliver the service provider-class solutions you need today. Find out how companies like Vodafone, AT&T, Telefonica, BT, Orange Business Services and many others are delivering greater application performance and security with Blue Coat.

Blue Coat Powered Managed Services

According to Forrester Research, fueled by global economic recession the market for managed services will explode in the next 24 to 36 months. In fact, Informa Telecoms & Media predict the managed services market to grow to $34 billion by 2013.

Increasingly Blue Coat is finding enterprises are turning to managed services as a way to slash IT/network costs, shift budget away from large capital investments, better focus on their core business, as well as boost service levels, reliability and manageability. This aligns with the results of an IDC survey conducted last year that found that refocusing resources on core business, reducing network operations costs, and a lack of internal skills and resources being the top three perceived benefits of managed services.

Although the majority of Blue Coat customers today choose to deploy and manage Blue Coat equipment for acceleration, visibility and security directly with their own IT and network resources, Blue Coat works with a number of global partners – including BT, Orange, AT&T, Verizon, NTT, Sprint and others – to offer the option of Blue Coat powered managed services to its customers.

Whether you are a Blue Coat customer looking to expand your Blue Coat deployment and layer on security, acceleration or visibility to an existing deployment or interested in reducing costs and boosting reliability, Blue Coat's managed service partners can help.