Blue Coat Systems this week unveiled its plan to address the client-side of WAN optimization and secure delivery with new products that help those workers not in the branch office achieve ...

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Blue Coat Systems agreed to a $1.3 billion buyout by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which already has four security companies in its portfolio, including competitor SonicWall.

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Symantec plans to buy Blue Coat Systems in a $4.65 billion deal that will give the computer-security company a new portfolio of cyberdefense technologies along with a new chief executive.

Blue Coat noted that the purchase of Elastica falls in line with its ongoing commitment to invest $500 million toward cloud security development.

The deal will add Permeo's technology for protecting computer "end points" such as desktop and laptop computers to Blue Coat's line of security "proxy" appliances that scan network Web traffic ...

Technology security firm Symantec Corp <SYMC.O> said it would buy privately held cyber security company Blue Coat for $4.65 billion (3.27 billion pounds) in a cash deal that will ramp up ...