Data Security: Tyco Flow Control Taps Blue Coat To Optimize Global WAN
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. one of the leader in secure content and application delivery, recently announced that Tyco Flow Control, a major division of Fortune 500 company Tyco International Ltd., has selected Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to optimize its Wide Area Network (WAN) by securing and accelerating critical business applications between its international offices. Based in Shanghai, China, Tyco Flow Control is one of the largest manufacturer of valve products in the world, employing 12,500 people in 80 countries.
Tyco Flow Control faced overall productivity issues because the company's WAN connections were completely saturated and latency had become a significant performance issue. Branch and remote offices contended with agonizingly slow response times for key applications, including its Fourth Shift Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, Lotus Notes for email and collaboration, and remote file-system access using the Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS) protocol. In addition to solving response time issues, the company wanted to lower its operational costs by better optimizing its bandwidth usage.
By installing Blue Coat ProxySG appliances at its branch offices and data center, Tyco Flow Control, experienced reductions of up to 400% in the response time to download files and email attachments. In addition, the company's WAN links now only consume half as much bandwidth, with core applications dropping bandwidth consumption from over 100 kilobits per second (kbps) to 10 kbps - a 90% improvement.
Prior to selecting Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances, Tyco Flow Control conducted a rigorous competitive review of available products. "We chose Blue Coat due to its proven ability to deliver rapid application response times, and because of the WAN optimization and control features," said Mr. Jan Van Ooijen, president of Tyco Flow Control, Asia. "Blue Coat ProxySG appliances have instantly improved our workplace productivity and lowered operating costs."
"Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances accelerate and control a wide range of business-critical applications, from centralized ERP to email and file services," said Matt Young, vice-president of Asia-Pacific, Blue Coat Systems, Inc. "We are pleased to help Tyco Flow Control in meeting its objectives - enabling dramatic increases in application response time and significant reductions in bandwidth consumption."
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances utilize the company's MACH5 patent-pending framework of acceleration technologies and are designed to accelerate all key enterprise applications, including: Web and secure Web applications (SSL), file services, email/Microsoft Exchange and live streaming or on-demand video. MACH5 technology integrated with the Blue Coat platform enables organizations to manage all user/application interactions-to stop undesirable applications, regulate less important applications and accelerate critical applications, even when encrypted within SSL.
About Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates 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 centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
SOURCE: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.