Symantec availability-Symantec will acquire Blue Coat:CEO vacancy-IT information

Information on IT security company Symantec and Blue Coat Systems said in a statement, Symantec will be completed by the third quarter of 2016 acquisition of Blue Coat. The deal will enable Symantec to get Blue Coat Web security technologies, and could complement the CEO job vacancies.

After the transaction is completed, current CEO of Blue Coat Systems will run the combined company, succeeding former Symantec CEO Michael Brown. Symantec had lowered sales and profit expectations for the last quarter of the fiscal year, and set out to cut spending by $ 400 million a year, the deal will be able to help Symantec net cost savings of $ 150 million a year.

In addition, the deal also covers Blue Coat holding shareholder Bain Capital took out $ 750 million from the sale income of merged into the new company. In addition, the private-equity firm Silver Lake capital investment will be increased to $ 1 billion.

Today's fast-growing market for network security, Symantec's decision to undertake a major upgrade in January of this year the company's data storage sector has been sold for $ 7.4 billion to Carlyle Group. Said Dan Schulman, Chairman of the company, the deal was done in order to make customers and individual consumers from external threats and subtle intrusion of Internet crime.

赛门铁克将收购Blue Coat：CEO空缺终有着落 - 赛门铁克 - IT资讯

IT资讯讯 安全公司赛门铁克和Blue Coat Systems在一份声明中表示，赛门铁克将于2016年第三季度完成对Blue Coat的收购。该交易将使赛门铁克获得Blue Coat的网络安全防御技术，并且能够补充CEO职位的空缺。

交易完成后，Blue Coat Systems现任CEO将执掌合并后的公司，接替前任赛门铁克CEO Michael Brown。此前赛门铁克已经下调了本财年第四季度的销售额和利润预期，并且宣布每年削减4亿美元支出，该交易将能够帮助赛门铁克每年再节省1.5亿美元净成本。

另外，本次交易还涉及Blue Coat控股股东贝恩资本从出售交易收入中拿出7.5亿美元注入到合并后的新公司。另外，私募股权公司银湖资本还将投资额增加至10亿美元。

面对如今快速增长的网络安全市场，赛门铁克决定进行重大转型升级，今年1月该公司数据存储部门已经以74亿美元出售给了凯雷集团。公司董事长Dan Schulman表示，这次收购交易是为了让大客户和个人消费者免受外部威胁和狡猾网络犯罪的侵扰。