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2016: Symantec absorbed Blue Coat for $4.65 billion

On June 13, 2016 the American producer of the antivirus software Symantec announced acquisition of Blue Coat for $4.65 billion Read more here.

2012: Thoma Bravo initiates sale of Crossbeam Systems in Blue Coat

In December, 2012 the Blue Coat company announced conclusion of an agreement about purchase of Crossbeam Systems, developer of high-performance and high-scalable network equipment for creation of firewalls based on software products, in particular, Check Point, McAfee, Imperva, Sourcefire, IBM and Trend Micro.

Blue Coat and Crossbeam are included into group, controlled by private investment fund Thoma Bravo which actually and was an initiator and the organizer of the transaction. Process of acquisition of Crossbeam Systems is supposed to be completed on December 31, 2012. After that the Crossbeam company will function under the name of Blue Coat and all its main business functions will be integrated with Blue Coat business.

At this Blue Coat announced that customers of Crossbeam will continue to receive the same high level of support and service. Moreover, within integration, the single system of support based on the best methodologies and technologies of both companies will be created further.

The existing Blue Coat and Crossbeam sales channels will independently function so far.

Modern requirements of the organizations and the increasing number of the devices of different type getting access to network and volume content are the main catalyst of development of networks which require the increasing capacity and performance. These requirements lead also need of the increasing investments into additional solutions of security and control of network. For the enterprises which aim to implement new technologies, such as mobile and cloud applicaions in the existing environment of ensuring safe work, this factor is critical.

"The enterprises which try to expand the opportunities due to the latest technologies the simultaneous need for increase in capacity and performance causes emergence of cyclic process of permanent expansion of network infrastructure and security system, - the vice president of IDC for products and services of security Christian Christiansen says. - Blue Coat and Crossbeam already have experience of creation of the integrated ecosystems of security and their present union allows to hope that we will be able to receive even more advanced solutions in network security".

The products Crossbeam of a H-series are the scalable platform of the high level, only in the market, which allows the organizations to consolidate the network infrastructure with security infrastructure. Consolidation it with the solutions Blue Coat Unified Security allows to create an ideal control point in network for management of applications, monitoring of the entering and leaving traffic for all users in any point of network of any scale.

2011: Developer of the platform of security Crossbeam X-Series

The headquarters of Crossbeam was in the city of Boksborough (State of Massachusetts). Besides, the company had offices in Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Rim.

For 2011 Crossbeam Systems, Inc. was a developer of the platform of network security Crossbeam X-Series which supports the open high-performance architecture capable to select and scale a set of applications on network security.

The companies use solutions of Crossbeam for risk management, the satisfaction of statutory and regulatory requirements and also for protection of business against the accruing threats.