We'll admit that the WAN acceleration joint Blue Coat has largely been cruising under our radar, so when the company bought its rival Packeteer for $268m last week, we did a double-take. Being El Reg, of course, each individual take was filled with erudite contemplation. Here's a play-by-play recreation: First take: Holy #%@ $ …
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Posted Wednesday 30th April 2008 08:10 GMT
Thinking about it, the lack of guff about Blue Coat gracing this site is a minor surprise; they've long had a good story on filtering and app acceleration and been one of those less hawkish vendors - pretty rare in security. Bob Kent was a good larf too, still got my 'No monkey spanking' t-shirt somewhere. Thought you'd get on with them quite well really.
Posted Wednesday 30th April 2008 13:27 GMT
No Monkey Spanking! Yes! Surely the best IT marketing campaign for years?
Posted Monday 5th May 2008 07:18 GMT
pipe multicast through one of these... or IPv6 tunnels.
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