Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Ocean Sky, an integrated apparel company, has deployed Blue Coat? ProxySG? appliances to securely enable cross-regional collaboration among its design, manufacturing and distribution teams. With ProxySG appliances, Ocean Sky has built a virtual design environment that allows the company to assemble cutting edge talent from across Asia Pacific, creating a competitive advantage.
"The success of our business depends on cross-regional cooperation where employees from different teams can collaborate to improve efficiencies in our development adn distribution processes," said Margaret Tang, senior IT manager at Ocean Sky. “With Blue Coat, we are able to attract and retain key talent from all over Asia by operating a single, virtual studio.”
To enable efficient collaboration within Ocean Sky, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances utilize a combination of Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization technologies, including compression, caching, pre-population and protocol optimization. The combination of these technologies improved Ocean Sky’s application response times and also reduced its bandwidth consumption across the WAN. With the deployment of Blue Coat appliances, Ocean Sky has not only created a virtual design environment, but it can also source materials throughout the region.
The same ProxySG appliances that optimize [applications] across the WAN also provide Ocean Sky with an effective point of control for enforcing corporate IT policies. With centralized policy enforcement, ProxySG appliances ensure that policies are consistently enforced across Ocean Sky’s distributed workforce.
"For businesses that operate globally or across large regions, like Ocean Sky, ensuring rapid application response times is critical running an efficient business," said William Tan, Regional Country Manager, Thailand and Vietnam, Blue Coat Systems. "Blue Coat delivers the unique combination of WAN optimization and security technologies that allows Ocean Sky employees to collaborate from design to distribution."
The WAN optimization technologies that are intrinsic to ProxySG appliances are a critical component of the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure. An application-aware infrastructure, the Application Delivery Network provides visibility, acceleration and security to optimize and secure the delivery of applications across the distributed enterprise.
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