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Blue Coat Joins Microsoft System Center Alliance
May 2009 by Marc Jacob
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. announced that it has joined
the Microsoft System Center Alliance to enhance and support Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager 2007 and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), part of the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN) to
branch offices and over the Internet to remote workers.
In addition to accelerating enterprise applications and remote files across the WAN, Blue
Coat® ProxySG® appliances can now optimize and accelerate software updates,
configurations and patches that have been packaged by a company’s IT department for
distribution to its users using Configuration Manager and App-V. For example, a 40
megabyte update file that previously required nearly four minutes to cross the WAN can
now be delivered in under five seconds1. A large software installation package of 375
megabytes that previously required slightly more than an hour to transfer across the WAN
can now be transferred in a few seconds1. As a result, the ProxySG appliances can also
free up WAN bandwidth for critical business applications
ProxySG appliances also optimize and accelerate the delivery of on-demand applications
using Microsoft App-V. In Blue Coat performance tests, Microsoft Office Word 2007
delivered through App-V benefited from a 70 percent improvement in the amount of time
to launch the application remotely and a 98 percent reduction in bandwidth consumption2.
Blue Coat® ProxyClient® software can also accelerate the delivery of software and
applications delivered by Configuration Manager or App-V. ProxyClient software utilizes
WAN optimization technologies, including byte caching, to accelerate access to files, such
as spreadsheets and presentations, and to speed the response time of remote Web
applications. ProxyClient also uses the Blue Coat WebPulse™ service, a real-time cloud
computing security service, to enforce a company’s centrally managed Internet usage
policies and to protect against malware, spyware, mobile malicious code and phishing
exploits.
