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Blue Coat Opens New Environmentally-Friendly Corporate Headquarters as Part of Major Green Commitment

^{Published on 2009-01-21 04:52:27, Last Modified on 2009-01-21 04:53:37 - Market Wire}
 

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it has occupied its new corporate headquarters that are designed to minimize its environmental impact through reduction in electricity and water consumption, increased recycling and reduction of waste. The new facility is an integral element of the company's "Blue Planet" initiative intended to reduce the company's environmental impact, save operational costs and educate employees to decrease their own carbon-footprints.

The new Sunnyvale, Calif. building houses corporate employees, including many from the Blue Coat acquisition of Packeteer, Inc. seven months ago. It is located adjacent to an existing Blue Coat office. Environmentally-friendly features include:

• Energy-efficient T5 fluorescent lighting for a 60 percent savings in energy consumption with 30 percent brighter light
• The use of soda fountains and multi-stage drinking water filtration systems in place of traditional beverages in cans and bottles
• Waterless fixtures in men's restrooms, saving up to 240,000 gallons of water annually
• Use of glass walls to increase radiance of natural sunlight
• Motion detectors and timing systems for efficient lighting, heating and air conditioning

"Blue Coat is committed to being a good steward of the environment in all aspects of business through the lessening of our carbon footprint and reduction of resources we consume," said Brian NeSmith, president and chief executive officer, Blue Coat Systems. "Blue Planet is our corporate initiative for a greener company, and is intended to help our employees, partners and even customers become more environmentally responsible. It's the right thing to do for our planet and it provides us considerable operational savings in the process."

Besides the new environmentally-friendly headquarters, Blue Planet programs encompass:

• Significant changes to its IT systems to reduce power consumption from servers and other resources
• Design for environment engineering and development efforts to create more energy-efficient products that are recyclable and environmentally-friendly; Blue Coat products are already RoHS compliant and meet the other environmental requirements of international jurisdictions
• Travel-reduction programs coupled with new video conferencing systems and other virtual meeting enablers
• Employee education, contests and best practices collaboration
• Worldwide product fulfillment streamlining for carbon reduction and cost reduction
• Use of Blue Coat's own ProxyClient software to enable employees to work safely and efficiently from home or remote locations

Blue Coat expects its Blue Planet initiative to reduce operational costs by at least $4 million and at least 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the next 12-18 months.

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-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2008 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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