Web Gateway Appliances Unveiled
Added 17th Nov 2009The Blue Coat ProxySG 9000 Series appliance, used for Web policy enforcement and detecting and blocking Web threats, supports 1Gbps throughput, an improvement over the 400Mbps in its earlier high-end 8100. The ProxySG 9000 Series, which supports up to 60,000 concurrent users, is designed to check for newly-emerging threats using Blue Coat's cloud-based service for obtaining threat intelligence WebPulse, which analyzes URL requests in real time.
"Today, WebPulse draws from a 62-million-user base" in addition to using about a dozen other methods to analyze dangerous Web content, says Tom Clare, senior director of product marketing at Blue Coat.
Another component of Blue Coat's secure Web gateway consists of antivirus proxies that can be used to filter for viruses and other malware. Blue Coat expects to ship updated versions of its ProxyAV appliances next month, the 1400 and 2400, each supporting up to 60,000 concurrent users on a single appliance and boosting scanning performance by 40 percent. More efficient power supplies are said to reduce power consumption per gigabit by about a third.
Blue Coat competes with McAfee and Cisco, among others, in the secure Web gateway arena. While Blue Coat's appliances are suited to protecting traditional network infrastructures, the company says it has also begun addressing protection in a virtualized or cloud-based infrastructure.
"We are going to move toward a virtualized version," says Clare, adding there isn't likely to be an official announcement about this until next year at the earliest.
The Blue Coat ProxySG 9000, available now, starts at $50,000 (about Rs.22.5 lakhs), the ProxyAV 1400 and 2400 Series, expected to ship next month, start at $52,000 (about Rs.23.4 lakhs).
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