Blue Coat Ranked as a Worldwide Market Leader in WAN Optimization

Report Reflects Number One Market Position in WAN Application Delivery in CYQ109

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that a new report from IDC, a leading market research and advisory firm, ranks Blue Coat the leader in worldwide market share for WAN Application Delivery for the first quarter of calendar year 2009. According to the recently issued IDC report, “Worldwide WAN Application Delivery 2008 and 1Q09 Vendor Shares,” 1 Blue Coat was the market leader for the first quarter of 2009 and was second in market share for the full calendar year of 2008. For the first quarter of 2009, IDC reports Blue Coat in the number one position with 29.5% market share on $67.4 million in revenue.

“Blue Coat established itself as the market leader in the first quarter of 2009. This leadership results from a differentiated value proposition for the distributed enterprise,” said Lucinda Borovick, vice president of data center networks, IDC. “Blue Coat is delivering on its strategy to include visibility as a key principle of its Application Delivery Network infrastructure.”

“Our vision for the Application Delivery Network addresses today’s WAN optimization challenges and enables distributed enterprises to contain costs, realize more value from their existing network investments and enhance productivity by delivering business applications as expected,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Corporate Development, Blue Coat Systems. “As our market share reflects, customers are responding to our comprehensive approach to WAN optimization, which integrates application and web visibility, acceleration and security.”

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

1IDC, “Worldwide WAN Application Delivery 2008 and 1Q09 Vendor Shares,” Doc #219168, July 2009.

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