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The company Blue Coat buy for $ 2.4 billion

Today , Blue Coat announced the purchase of its assets by the Bain Capital investment fund for $ 2.4 billion. The acquired company is developing information security tools for corporations, and the tools being developed serve to eliminate the most sophisticated, complex types of attacks on computer systems of various organizations.



Over the past three years, Blue Coat has shown excellent growth in the market - this applies to both the value of shares and revenues. About 80% of Blue Coat customers are from the Fortune 500 list. In the course of their work, this company conducted a number of acquisitions, the purpose of which is to obtain additional tools and information security tools created by third-party developers.



As a result, many of the company's de facto products have become the standard for a solid part of the Fortune Global 2000 list. Blue Coat has built the largest cloud infrastructure in its sector that integrates with the information security tools developed by this company, anywhere, anytime.

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Bain Capital is one of the largest private equity funds, which the creators call "alternative". The investment fund currently manages about $ 80 billion. The investment fund was founded in 1984. During its operation, the company has invested in many start-ups and services, including BMC Software, Applied Systems, Viewpoint Construction Software, Skillsoft, MYOB, SunGard Data Systems, TeamSystem, LinkedIn, SolarWinds, and SurveyMonkey.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/286544/



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