H3C Technologies Selects Blue Coat Appliances to Secure Corporate Information and Increase Employee Productivity

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that H3C Technologies (H3C), a leading Chinese IP network products and solution provider, has selected Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to manage its Internet bandwidth consumption, regulate online behavior by its staff, secure critical corporate information and accelerate Internet content and applications. Hangzhou-based H3C employs more than 5,000 people worldwide, including staff in 34 provinces and cities across China, and overseas operations in Japan, USA, South Africa, Korea, Thailand, Russia and India. More than 51 percent of staff work in research and development. The comprehensive Blue Coat solution, including Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and the Blue Coat WebFilter product, gives H3C full control and management of its employees’ online behavior, protecting them from spyware, phishing and malicious threats, enforcing company policies for Web usage, controlling Peer-to-Peer (P2P), streaming media and Instant Messaging (IM) applications, and allocating bandwidth based upon types of downloaded files. The Blue Coat appliances can apply rules with granularity, based on the specific user, application and other types of conditions. "Blue Coat’s ProxySG appliance is a highly efficient platform that helps manage our Internet resources and improves staff work efficiency through effective management of their on-line behavior,” said a Project Manager from H3C responsible for the implementation. "Blue Coat was selected following an extensive assessment of Web security products in the market. Blue Coat uniquely combines extremely granular levels of security and control along with acceleration, so instead of slowing down Web access, it actually speeds it up.” "Blue Coat helps H3C manage the power of the Internet to run its business safely and effectively,” said Matt Young, vice president, Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems. "Our ProxySG appliances protect employees and corporate information and infrastructure from security threats, manage Web resources, reduce bandwidth consumption and accelerate applications.” About H3C H3C is a leading global supplier of IP-based products and solutions. H3C's offerings include routers, Ethernet switches, wireless LAN, security, Voice/Video over IP products, SOHO products and network management systems. H3C is also a leading vendor of IP SAN (Storage Area Network) products and IP video surveillance systems. Operating in thirty four provinces and cities, China, H3C employs 5,000 people worldwide. It operates advanced R&D facilities in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen in China and Bangalore in India, operates Product Test Centers in Beijing and Hangzhou; invests more than 15 percent of revenues back into R&D every year and has about half of its workforce engaged in research and development. Additionally, H3C has over 700 patents, 80 percent of which are invention patents. 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’ most recently filed Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2007 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note: Blue Coat and other applicable product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All trademarks, trade names or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.