Blue Coat Opens Subsidiary in India

Aims to Increase Foothold in India by Establishing New Delhi Office

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced the opening of its first subsidiary in India with an office located in New Delhi. This move further demonstrates Blue Coat's commitment to its partners and customers in this rapidly growing market.

"With the tremendous growth potential in India, it is an opportune time for Blue Coat to establish a direct presence to better communicate with our partners and customers in this region. It is a part of Blue Coat's expansion across the Asia Pacific region in order to better meet regional customer demands for WAN optimization and Web security solutions," said Matt Young, Vice President, Sales for Asia-Pacific, Blue Coat Systems Inc.

Blue Coat solution offerings in India are available through its sole distributor Virtual NetComm Pvt. Ltd and partner resellers.

"We are very pleased that Blue Coat has established physical presence in India. This additional commitment enables us to better leverage Blue Coat's deep expertise in securing, controlling and accelerating business-critical applications and to better serve our resellers and customers. We intend to work closely with Blue Coat to serve existing market segments and to target new ones in the region," said Rajendra Shah, CEO of Virtual NetComm Pvt. Ltd.

Blue Coat® ProxySG™ appliances provide Web security, policy control and acceleration of content and applications at an organization's headquarters, branch offices and data centers. Its software-based SG Client provides security, policy control and acceleration to individual employees working remotely from the enterprise network.