Blue Coat has installed more than 40000appliances worldwide

Including the June 2008purchase of Recycle South, a metals recycler in the Southeastern U.S., and thepurchase of the assets of Sturgis Iron & Metal, OmniSource now has an annualcapacity to process about 7 million tons of ferrous scrap and more than abillion pounds of nonferrous scrap. SOURCESteel Dynamics, Inc.Fred Warner, Investor Relations Manager of Steel Dynamics, 1-260-969-3564. Bill Validation and Cost Benchmarking extended to former Verizon customers innorthern New England StatesBURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ Cerylion, Inc., ()a premier provider of advanced global communications and informationtechnology solutions, today announced support for FairPoint Communication'selectronic billing as part of its CommADVISOR Telecom Expense ManagementSystem for large to midsize enterprises and government agencies."Most billing errors can be traced to contract or service transitions.TheVerizon to FairPoint transition is a large-scale example of such atransition," said Dave Snow, Cerylion's Vice President, Customer and FieldOperations. "FairPoint's Electronic Billing Extract (FEBE) allows CommADVISORto fully automate the bill validation and invoice processing functions.Current and new CommADVISOR clients that are transitioning from Verizon willbe able to benchmark their new FairPoint network costs, and potentiallyidentify new opportunities to further reduce network expense." By providing a Business Intelligence-driven application that automates keyworkflows, CommADVISOR enables enterprise customers to reduce costs, managetheir fixed and wireless network assets and optimize their spending across theentire telecom lifecycle all within a secure web-hosted application.Enterprise customers benefit from fully automated in-cycle billing resolutionand invoice processing, which eliminate the costs associated with post-paymentaudits, charge accounting, charge-back reporting, budget reporting and othermanual processes.Active Inventory Management, Service Scorecards, ContractAnalysis and Forecasting modules are built into the patented CommADVISORplatform, providing users with one of the most advanced, automated networkspend management systems available.

CommADVISOR is delivered as a web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution,and is also provided as a fully managed service from Cerylion's CommADVISORservice partners ( http://).About CerylionCerylion, Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, was founded in1999 to provide cost-effective tools to solve the problems of enterprisesoperating within increasingly interconnected real-time business environments. CommADVISOR incorporates Cerylion's patented Service Router technology toprovide enterprise customers with real-time and in-cycle transactionaloperations across disparate carrier and enterprise systems.For moreinformation on Cerylion, please go to our website: , Inc.David Snow of Cerylion, Inc., 1-781-494-0871, . At the same time, the appliances have reduced the companysbandwidth consumption by 84 percent, resulting in significant operationalsavings. In particular, important Excel files used by Akibia to quoteprojects took an excessively long time to exchange between a branch officeemployee and the centralized file server at the companys data center. Akibiasuse of ProxySG appliances have made file access nearly instantaneous.

"We wanted to accelerate only business-critical applications, while stopping ormanaging anything malicious or unimportant," said Rick Onorato, IT director,Akibia. "At the same time, ProxySG appliances give us the ability to secure andaccelerate direct Internet connections at each branch office." To give each branch office direct Internet access, Akibia adopted a"direct-to-the-net" model, which reduced bandwidth by eliminating the need tobackhaul Internet traffic to the centralized Internet gateway in the companysdata center. With the Blue Coat solution, the same ProxySG appliance in eachbranch office serves both to protect the office from malicious threats resultingfrom a direct Internet connection and to provide acceleration for acceptable Webcontent and applications. Like many of its own customers, Akibia realized it could improveproductivity and overall business processes by accelerating file access in itsbranch offices, and recognized that the Blue Coat ProxySG appliance couldprovide faster access while also reducing strain on the network fromnon-critical applications. "Akibia's "Think Like a Customer" philosophy is predicated on us leveraging theservices and solutions we provide our clients and ensuring they meet successfulstandards in real-world application," said Robert Klotz, vice president ofTechnology at Akibia. "As users of these technologies from Blue Coat Systems andother partners we are able to provide our customers with first-hand knowledgeand proven best practices." "ProxySG appliances enable enterprises and organizations to regain control oftheir networks by accelerating business-critical content and applications whilestopping, managing or mitigating the unimportant," said Steve Rowland, vicepresident of sales, North America, Blue Coat Systems.

"Akibia uses Blue Coatappliances to develop a state-of-the-art network to increase efficiency andproductivity, reduce costs and minimize threats." About Blue Coat SystemsBlue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applicationsacross the distributed enterprise. Blue Coats family of appliances andclient-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, endpoints, and data centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based controlenabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performancebetween users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, andcan be reached at (408) 220-2200 or FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release thatare not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statementsregarding Blue Coat Systems expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategiesregarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities andexpected performance of Blue Coat Systems products. All forward-lookingstatements included in this press release are based upon information availableto Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes noobligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-lookingstatements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results todiffer materially from those projected.