Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced its planned 56 city “Better Together” Road Show, where customers and partners worldwide will be introduced to the company’s new market vision and plans for the future following its recent acquisition of Packeteer, Inc.
Beginning June 23, 2008, Blue Coat’s senior executives, including president and chief executive officer, Brian NeSmith, and senior vice president of worldwide sales, Kevin Biggs, will host a series of half-day events where Blue Coat and Packeteer customers and partners will gather to learn about the acquisition and its impact on the company going forward. Attendees will be able to meet one-on-one with executives and solutions experts who will address questions on product integration and channel partner program improvements, as well as provide their insights on the company’s future investment in the PacketShaper® product line and technology. Over the span of three and a half weeks, Blue Coat’s “Better Together” Road Show will tour the globe, holding events in cities such as Boston, Tokyo, Sidney, Dubai, London, and Sao Paolo.
“With the acquisition of Packeteer, Blue Coat has gained an additional 10,000 customers worldwide, as well as 50 additional sales teams and over 1,400 new channel partners,” noted president and chief executive officer Brian NeSmith. “It is essential that our customers and partners understand the steps we are taking to integrate our companies and product lines, and that our new partners are aware of the important role they will play in the ongoing success of our company. We are eager to bring the Packeteer network into our family.”
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:
All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any projections of earnings, revenues, synergies, accretion, margins or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations, including the execution of integration plans and investment in technologies; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that expected benefits may not materialize as expected; that the parties are unable to successfully implement integration strategies; and other risks that are described from time to time in the Securities and Exchange Commission reports filed by Blue Coat, including but not limited to the risks described in Blue Coat’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007, and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2008. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of Blue Coat. Blue Coat assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
Contacts:
Steve Schick, 408-220-2076 (Media)
steve.schick@bluecoat.com
Carla
Hoblit, 408-220-2056 (Investor)
carla.hoblit@bluecoat.com
or
Merritt
Group (for Blue Coat Systems)
Melissa Chadwick, 703-390-1539 (Media)
merritt@merrittgrp.com
