Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the Middle East’s largest shipping line,

has selected Blue Coat(R) ProxySG(R) appliances to optimize and secure
the delivery of applications and content between the company’s four
data centers. By optimizing bandwidth utilization between data centers,
UASC reduced its bandwidth costs by 70 percent, and expects to save as
much as US$ 250,000 in 2010.

As the 14th largest shipping line in the world, UASC requires
significant bandwidth to run the company’s core applications, such as
email, data recovery solutions and TRUST, a shipping-specific
application. UASC has 28 branch offices worldwide that access these
applications from four data centers in the Middle East and Southeast
Asia. The high cost of bandwidth in the Middle East limits the ability
of UASC to increase its bandwidth to solve application performance
issues.

“High bandwidth costs forced us to find another solution that would
allow us to optimally utilize our existing bandwidth, accelerate our
business-critical applications and data transfers, and at the same time
provide a sophisticated level of policy control and security,” said Mr.
Ashraf Jamal, IT network and security manager for UASC. “Among all the
vendors we evaluated, Blue Coat scored the highest on each of the above
parameters and provided a single transparent reporting module that
could simplify our business processes.”

Using Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, UASC improved the performance of
its Global Reporting System, and reduced the time it takes to produce a
report from 16 minutes to two minutes. Not only did this increase in
performance improve employee productivity, it also resulted in cost
savings.

“For many companies like UASC, throwing bandwidth at application
performance issues is not a feasible solution due to the high costs of
bandwidth and the limitations of what increased bandwidth can
accomplish,” says Nidal Taha, regional director for the Middle East and
Turkey at Blue Coat Systems. “ProxySG appliances deliver immediate and
dramatic improvements in performance by optimizing the existing
bandwidth between branch offices and the data centers where they access
applications.”

UASC was established in July 1976, jointly by the six shareholding
states from the Arabian Gulf – Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and U.A.E. The head office is located in the State of Kuwait,
with a corporate office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the
largest Middle East-based ocean carrier of containerized cargo.

Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery
Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network
Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security
required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on
any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables
enterprises to tightly align network investments with business
requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications
for long-term competitive advantage.

Source: Blue Coat Systems

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