Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Sunnyvale, CA United States

  (UTP NASDAQ: BCSI)

Company Description

Blue Coat Systems protects and serves corporate networks. Its proxy appliances protect networks from viruses and other security threats and improve network performance. The devices provide Web content filtering, virus and spyware protection, user authentication, and the ability to limit or block peer-to-peer applications such as instant messaging. They can also be configured to provide WAN acceleration, speeding the delivery of business applications with Blue Coat's bandwidth management, protocol optimization, compression, and caching technologies. More than half of sales come from customers located outside the Americas. Blue Coat was acquired by private equity investor Thoma Bravo for $1.3 billion in 2012.