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Crossbeam Systems is headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Crossbeam Systems was acquired by Blue Coat Systems in December 2012 and the Crossbeam brand has been fully absorbed into Blue Coat. The company made open, high-performance hardware and software network security platform that was designed to deploy network security applications from third-party security software vendors (including McAfee, Sourcefire, Trend Micro, Websense, Check Point, IBM, Imperva, Actiance and Sophos) within large networking environments, including enterprises, service providers and government agencies. The industries that Crossbeam serves include (energy〔Crossbeam website, “Energy: securing energy using less energy〕 ), (financial services〔SearchNetworking.com, “Network security infrastructure consolidation: What's your strategy?” 26 October, 2010〕 ), government, healthcare, (higher education 〔EdTech, “High Availability Benefits from Virtualization,” May 2010,〕 ), (managed/ service providers〔TMCNet, “Crossbeam Systems Helps BT Strengthen Virtualized Security Offering〕 ) and (mobile operators 〔InfoSecurity, “O2 taps Crossbeam for mobile data security,” 2 February 2010〕 ) == Company History == Crossbeam Systems was acquired by Blue Coat Systems in December 2012 and the Crossbeam brand has been fully absorbed into Blue Coat. Crossbeam Systems, Inc. was incorporated on November 23, 1999 by Stephen Justus and Mike Akerman, with Throop Wilder joining as a founding team member (in 2000 〔Bloomberg Businessweek, “Crossbeam Systems〕 ) . Since the beginning, Crossbeam has been focused on designing and manufacturing a range of very high-performance network security platforms, with the philosophy that security solutions should be (open and offer choice 〔TMCNet, “Open Platform Security Company Crossbeam Explains its Qualifications Sims,” 19 November, 2010〕 ) to the customer in the security applications they use. Today, Crossbeam is the only manufacturer of a dedicated open network security platform. In October 2011, Crossbeam introduced its own blog site dedicated to rethinking networking concepts. (RethinkTheNetwork ) Peter George led the company from 2001 to June 2007 as CEO and president. Pete Fiore took over the company in 2007 and led the company to growth and profitability until his death in December 2009. (Mike Ruffolo joined Crossbeam 〔SC Magazine, “Company news: Michael Ruffolo named CEO at Crossbeam, plus changes at Fidelis and Symantec,” 4 May, 2010〕 ) in March 2010 and continues today as CEO and president. On November 9, 2012, Crossbeam Systems Inc. was acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo. The company did not publicly disclose the acquisition price or the terms of the deal. On December 17, 2012, Blue Coat Systems announced that it was acquiring Crossbeam Systems. The deal is expected to close December 31, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crossbeam Systems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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