Blue Coat Research Report Sample

Enterprises are entering 2009 with a new mandate: Make the business more efficient, and save money while doing it. Technology, in most organizations, is the means to accomplish such an insurmountable feat. Since 2001, when we last saw the pressure put on IT to deliver with a shrinking budget, the role of technology in the business has gone beyond critical systems, evolving into a business process enabler. More and more organizations must ensure that information from critical applications, between partners and the central organization and inside the organization, is flowing as efficiently as possible and feeding the proper systems. At the same time, the means to transmit that information must increasingly be secure, auditable, and efficient. IT’s job is no longer implementing systems and applications; it’s delivering business-critical information. The combination of optimization, security, and visibility is at the heart of a cohesive information delivery.