VNPL is The Value Added Distributor for Blue Coat Systems Inc in India with over 150+ Appliances Installations in India and focussed in Providing Blue Coat proxy appliances that provide powerful visibility and control of all Web communications.

Blue Coat’s ControlPoint Architecture enables IT organizations to establish intelligent points of control throughout the distributed enterprise, to effectively secure Web communications and accelerate business applications, while maintaining centralize policy control.

Practical Strategies to Accelerate Business Application Across the WAN
Remote users in branch offices often suffer from slow application performance over the WAN.  Discover how MACH5 acceleration technology, a core part of all Blue Coat SG appliances, uses five essential techniques to speed delivery of internal and externally hosted business applications – including encrypted SSL applications - to all remote users.

Accelerating File Services Applications
CIFS, Microsoft’s Common Internet File System, requires hundreds or thousands of back-and-forth interactions per file transaction. Blue Coat SG appliances with MACH5 technology accelerates CIFS traffic, thus improving enterprise application traffic over the WAN.

Caching and Compression - Key Technologies for Application Acceleration
Learn how object caching and byte caching each play a pivotal role in accelerating any and all application traffic across a WAN.

URL Filtering Database Accuracy Test
Broadband-Testing Labs, an independent network testing facility in France, recently completed a comprehensive test of web content filtering solutions from Blue Coat, Websense, SmartFilter, and Surf Control. The purpose of the test was to determine which solution delivered the best in terms of categorizing and filtering a broad range of URLs. Blue Coat emerged as the superior solution in all categories tested.  This white paper provides details on the test suite and results.

URL Filtering Database Coverage Test
Broadband-Testing Labs, an independent network testing facility in France, tested URL filter database coverage among several URL filtering products, including Websense, Blue Coat WebFilter with Dynamic Real-Time Rating™ (DRTR) technology, SmartFilter from Secure Computing, SurfControl, and WebWasher. Results indicated that Blue Coat WebFilter provided the best coverage in 11 different categories.

URL Filtering Performance Test – Blue Coat Versus Microsoft ISA
Does it really matter which platform you use to run URL content filtering software?  Yes it does, according to results of a performance test conducted by Broadband-Testing Labs, an independent network testing facility in France.  The tests revealed that Blue Coat appliances significantly outperformed the Microsoft ISA Server.  Both platforms were tested with real world Web traffic and used Websense for content filtering.

Gain Visibility and Control of Encrypted SSL Web Sessions
There is an increasing need for enterprise users to access business applications and sensitive information hosted outside the corporate network. In those situations, SSL provides users with the secure connection they need to maintain privacy over the Internet.  However, hackers are discovering ways to penetrate encrypted SSL sessions and cause damage to internal corporate resources.  Blue Coat’s “Inside Out” SSL Proxy solution provides the visibility and control IT organizations need to stop these threats and ensure session privacy.

Best Practices for Controlling Skype in your Enterprise
Skype is an instant messaging and internet telephony (VOIP) application designed to be hard to block and control using traditional means e.g. firewalls. Due to its stealthy nature it can presents security and compliance problems in the enterprise. This white paper describes how Blue Coat SG appliances can be used in conjunction with firewalls to block unauthorized use of Skype in the enterprise.

Secure and Accelerate Web Applications & Public Websites
This white paper overviews the performance and security values provided by Blue Coat SG appliances for reverse proxy deployments. Accelerate web content delivery with integrated caching, isolate web servers from direct Internet access, and secure communications with optional SSL services.

Spyware Prevention for the Enterprise
Spyware is a hot topic. It poses privacy, security, and productivity threats for enterprises via surreptitious installation and information gathering techniques. Spyware prevention at the gateway is critical to defend against these threats.

Analyzing Web AV for Enterprise Deployment
Web traffic is an increasing portion of an organization's overall network traffic. However, Web protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, IM and Streaming media) are often under-analyzed due to network performance and latency concerns. This paper discusses the challenges, requirements and solutions for deploying Web virus scanning in the enterprise.

Establishing an Internet Use Policy for Instant Messaging
Learn about the issues surrounding public IM use at work and how Blue Coat appliances can be used to monitor, control, and log IM activity for AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN.

Establishing an Internet Use Policy to Address P2P Use (Survey)
A Blue Coat study finds that enterprises remain exposed to illegal file sharing. This paper reviews the results of Blue Coat's P2P study, as well as offers best practices for developing an acceptable Internet use policy with P2P controls.

Visibility and Control with Proxy Appliances
Learn how to gain visibility and control of user communications over the Web. Includes details on proxy functionality and how to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet.

The Growing Security Threat: Your Employees
This META Group analyst whitepaper provides an understanding of what users are doing on the Internet to put your organization at risk, as well as how you can gain control to keep your "good" users from doing "bad" things over the Internet.

Blue Coat Proxy SG and ProxyAV appliances allows organizations:

1. Content filtering (Category Based URL, Text Based, Mime Type, File Extension, Download and Upload of Attachments, Time Based, Streaming Media Control etc.)
2. Spyware prevention,
3. Web Virus scanning,
4. Granular Instant Messaging (IM)  Including Chat Logging, File Transfer etc
5. P2P control
6. Web Proxy and
7. Bandwidth Management

And improving Web Browsing performance Using it’s # 1 Caching Engine used by Scores of Service Providers across the Globe to save Bandwidth.

The Proxy SG™ family of appliances includes the award-winning ProxySG 200 Series, 400 Series, 800 Series and 8000 Series and Based on Blue Coat SGOS™, a custom, object-based operating system with integrated caching and provides

1. Industry Standard Existing Authentication Systems like NTLM, RADIUS, LDAP etc to enable granular policy enforcement down to the individual user.
2. Granular Reporting (Blue Coat Reporter),
3. Graphical Policy and Configuration Management Software.
4. Rack mountable and ICSA-certified.

The ProxySG800 and the ProxySG8000 are designed to meet enterprise requirements for capacity, performance, availability and centralized management. While all four series provide the same broad application support and features, the 8000 Series provides an expandable, modular platform for customizing disk size, RAM and network interface cards

The ProxyAV integrates with the ProxySG to provide high performance real-time scanning of Web-based file downloads for viruses, worms and trojans - Significant Advantages for high-speed Web virus scanning that standalone systems cannot match. Both the ProxyAV 400and ProxyAV 2000 provide the same comprehensive features with easy deployment - and a choice of virus scanning engines from Sophos, Panda, McAfee and Kaspersky.

The Technology (http://www.bluecoat.com/resources/technology/index.html)

Proxy Caching (http://www.bluecoat.com/resources/technology/proxycaching.html)

Object Processing (http://www.bluecoat.com/resources/technology/processing.html)

Explore about all the above and more at Application Acceleration - Speeding Up Applications, Not Just Packets
http://www.bluecoat.com/downloads/whitepapers/BCS_MACH5_wp.pdf

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