Blue Coat Names Johnny Batten Vice President of Global Customer Services

Blue Coat Names Johnny Batten Vice President of Global Customer Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blue Coat(R) Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), a leading provider of proxy appliances, today announced that Johnny Batten has been appointed vice president of global customer services. Batten will assume responsibility for the company's worldwide services and support activities, which include consulting, education, customer service and technical support.

Batten joins Blue Coat after 26 years of supporting the world's most demanding IT customers, including more than 20 years in customer services management. Most recently, Batten served as vice president of services and support at CoSine Communications where he led all professional and maintenance services, technical trials and evaluation support for partners, customers and prospects. Prior to CoSine, Batten spent 23 years with Amdahl Corporation where he served as vice president of global services and support delivering more than $100 million in annual professional services revenue, and supporting the sale of approximately $450 million in information technology products.

"Johnny's expertise in building and managing global customer support programs makes him an excellent addition to our team," said Brian NeSmith, president and CEO of Blue Coat. "As Blue Coat's customer-base and the adoption rate of proxy appliances continues to grow, Johnny will strive to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction for Blue Coat customers worldwide."

About Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat enables organizations to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet. Blue Coat proxy appliances provide visibility and control of Web communications to protect against risks from spyware, Web viruses, inappropriate Web surfing, instant messaging (IM), video streaming and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing -- while actually improving Web performance. Trusted by many of the world's largest organizations, Blue Coat has shipped more than 20,000 proxy appliances. 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, 2004, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Source: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Tony Thompson of Blue Coat Systems, Inc., +1-408-220-2305, or
tony.thompson@bluecoat.com; or Dara Sklar of Schwartz Communications,
+1-415-512-0770, or bluecoat@schwartz-pr.com, for Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Web site: http://www.bluecoat.com/


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