Blue Coat Reaches Over 3,000 Former Packeteer Customers and Channel Partners in 3 Weeks

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it has reached over 3,000 former Packeteer, Inc. customers and channel partners in just three weeks, following its acquisition of Packeteer. An aggressive schedule of road shows and online events put Blue Coat executives and employees directly in touch with newly acquired customers and channel partners. The response from both customers and partners to these events reflects their strong interest in the combined set of solutions now offered by Blue Coat.

Blue Coat completed its acquisition of Packeteer on June 6, 2008. The combination of Blue Coat and Packeteer provides channel partners and customers the Packeteer(R) PacketShaper(R) product and Blue Coat(R) ProxySG(R) appliances for application identification and traffic shaping along with control and acceleration of applications and traffic across the enterprise Internet gateway and Wide Area Network (WAN). Together, the solutions provide Blue Coat partners and customers the ability to manage and solve increasingly complex branch office and Internet gateway application performance challenges and security threats.

"The synergy and cross-over opportunities between former Packeteer customers and partners and our own has proven exceedingly strong," said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. "We are engaging immediately with these new customers and partners to meet market demands and challenges with powerful Blue Coat solutions."

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: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems' Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Blue Coat, ProxySG, PacketShaper and the Blue Coat logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Blue Coat Systems
Steve Schick, 408-220-2076 (media)
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Daniel Levy, 408-220-2318 (investors)
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or
Merritt Group (for Blue Coat Systems)
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