Jon’s Network

iShared, the nifty little WAFS product that Packeteer got when they bought Tacit Networks a couple years back, will likely be dropped by Blue Coat from what I have heard. Blue Coat mentioned that they planned on rejuvenating Packetshaper as a standalone product as well as integrating some Packetshaper technologies into the ProxySG appliances. [...]

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When I found out that Fortinet and Riverbed were forming an alliance to “uniquely” address security and acceleration, I immediately thought of Blue Coat, who has been taking this WAN-optimization and security approach for about two years now. The Fortinet/Riverbed alliance just validates the Blue Coat approach in my eyes. If you watch [...]

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