Blue Coat Awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Award for 'Most Promising Vendor of the Year'

Singapore, May 23, 2008 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it was awarded the prestigious 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Award for 'Most Promising Vendor of the Year'.

The award is part of Frost & Sullivan's program to recognize outstanding performance in the Asia Pacific ICT industry during the year 2007, and selection is made by a distinguished panel of judges consisting of senior CIO and CTO executives from the industry, Frost & Sullivan analysts and members of the press.

Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances uniquely address the issue of slow application performance in branch offices by providing visibility and understanding of traffic crossing the Wide Area Network (WAN) and then stopping malicious or unwanted traffic, accelerating business-critical applications and managing everything in between. The appliances can also deliver on-demand and live video to branch offices and provide Web security and policy control for any direct Internet access at the branch. ProxySG appliances also protect and accelerate traffic at the primary Internet gateways of enterprises and organizations.

"We are extremely proud and honored to receive this award," said Matt Young, vice president for Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems. "The award is a testament to our relentless effort to deliver exceptional business solutions that secure and accelerate enterprise information throughout Asia Pacific and across the globe. We believe our WAN Application Delivery solutions revolutionize business applications through their unique combination of Web security, policy control and acceleration."

About Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and boost the end-user Web experience. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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