JDL Technologies is a Blue Coat partner
JDL’s experience and four Blue Coat certified engineers will enable you to choose Blue Coat with confidence that it will be implemented correctly and integrated into your network seamlessly. Blue Coat solves two problems better than anyone else. First, Blue Coat is a Secure Web Gateway meaning that it can prevent unwanted incoming content and unauthorized web content viewing by internal staff. Second, Blue Coat is a WAN Optimization solution enabling application performance and bandwidth management that results in productivity increases and cost savings.
JDL’s status as a Blue Coat partner with the experience and know how required to integrate Blue Coat Systems into your environment will provide JDL customers with the benefits of this best-in-class product family. JDL can help you implement and benefit from the range of capabilities that make up Blue Coat’s Secure Web Gateway and WAN Optimization capabilities. The range of services from byte caching to protocol optimization and from QoS and bandwidth management to malware prevention, positions Blue Coat and JDL to help you solve two of businesses most pressing problems.
Gartner, Forrester and IDC rate the Blue Coat product families at the top of the industry for providing Secure Web Gate way and WAN Optimization services.
Blue Coat is the Clear Leader in Secure Gateway and WAN Optimization.
Technology Research Organization Ratings of Blue Coat products:
| Product | Position | Value Proposition |
|---|---|---|
| Secure Web Gateway |
Gartner Magic Quadrant: Leader’s Quadrant |
The Secure Web Gateway solutions protect Web traffic in PCs from infection and enforce company policies in two ways: First, URL filtering to prevent incoming and outgoing traffic detrimental to the business. Second, antivirus filtering for Web traffic, dedicated application control such as instant messaging and proxy/caching devices. The business benefits by increased productivity due to reduced amount of misused time, reduced down time and service interruptions. (Based on Gartner’s report) |
| WAN Optimization | Gartner Magic Quadrant: Leader’s Quadrant |
Application acceleration in a high latency WAN environment due to centralized resources no longer needs to interfere with application availability. WAN optimization prevents network latency from impacting the business by maintaining high application performance with current bandwidth requirements. (Based on Gartner’s report) |
| WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway | Forrester Wave Vendor Summary, Q3 2007 | “In addition to one of the best optimization architectures, Blue Coat also provides a strong road map for broader application delivery infrastructure.” Blue Coat Systems adds Security and Control to WAN Optimization Appliances. Whiteley, 2007 |
| WAN Application Delivery (WAN Optimization) | IDC | With 23% of the WAN Optimization and application delivery market, Blue Coat implements a two pronged strategy that combines a policy process capacity with application performance. |
Secure Web Gateway
A secure web gateway helps you eliminate online threats before they have a chance to infect your network. With a secure web gateway, you get the control you need to block spam, viruses and even random Web surfing - all of which put your vital data at risk and can cripple the performance of your essential business applications.
The Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security
Several high-impact business and technology trends are driving the need for today's organizations to find ways to enhance the performance and security of their applications. Blue Coat provides a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives - acceleration and security.
http://www.bluecoat.com/doc/7085
Look to JDL
JDL Technologies can answer your questions, design solutions, implementation strategies and discuss costs and timing for deployment of Blue Coat solutions.
