Blue Coat Systems to Ring Opening Bell at NASDAQ

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that CFO and Senior Vice President Gordon C. Brooks will ring the Opening Bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available on the NASDAQ Webcam at http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_about.stm.

Following the Opening Bell ceremony, Mr. Brooks will present at the 12^th Annual Needham & Company, LLC Growth Stock Investors conference. The conference brings more than 300 public and private companies together with nearly 1,500 institutional investors and venture capital professionals. A webcast of Mr. Brooks’ presentation will be available at http://www.bluecoat.com/company/investorrelations.

Blue Coat is part of the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Inclusion in NASDAQ Global Select Market signifies that Blue Coat meets the highest initial financial and liquidity qualifications in the world, with measures including market value and earnings.

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. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.

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