The $268 million buy will add 1,400 new channel partners and 10,000 new customers for Blue Coat, said CEO Brian NeSmith. The deal is expected to close in this years' second quarter. NeSmith said he ...

Packeteer pleased investors by playing hard to get Wednesday. The Cupertino, Calif.-based networking products company’s shares soared 9.8%, or 51 cents, to $5.74 at the close, after it rejected a ...

The Reviewmeister is developing a compression obsession. This week, we analyze three more compression products. Let’s start with the ITWorx NetCelera. This is a LAN-based network compression product.

Packeteer found a better bidder. On Monday the online bandwidth management company agreed to be bought by network security company Blue Coat Systems in a deal valued at $268 million, or $7.10 a share.

REDMOND, Wash., and CUPERTINO, Calif. — May 7, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Packeteer (Nasdaq: PKTR) today announced a joint product strategy to deliver the industry’s first ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. WAN optimization leader Packeteer Inc. jumped into the ...

Customers using Packeteer appliances to shape traffic and manage bandwidth on their enterprise networks can now tie the data collected back to a single Web-based console provided by Packeteer partner ...

After living through the dot-com boom and bust, Craig Elliott has spent the past decade lying low. Now the former chief executive of Packeteer is bringing a new company out of the garage. Just don’t ...

Offer Represents a Significant, 42% Premium to Market Price Provides Shareholders Immediate, Quantifiable Value NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Elliott Associates, L.P. (togetherwith funds under ...

Security and wide-area network acceleration company Blue Coat Systems Inc. has made a deal to buy Packeteer Inc., a longtime WAN optimization vendor, for about $268 million. Blue Coat will integrate ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Hedge fund Elliott Associates LP said Wednesday that it offered an unsolicited bid for information technology company Packeteer in a letter to the company's board of ...

Packeteer's combination WAN accelerator and traffic shaper is second to none in speed of CIFS transfers, and among the leaders in overall performance; however, the benefits of shared byte-level ...