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Peter Owen has joined secure content and application delivery product provider Blue Coat as southern region sales manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Based in Melbourne, Owen's territory covers Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania.

He joins the company from Crossbeam Systems, and previously worked at Packeteer, MCI WorldCom, Logical Solutions, EDS and Computelec.

"Peter brings a unique blend of success in both the WAN optimisation and web security marketplaces to Blue Coat," said Wayne Neich, Blue Coat's  regional sales manager for Australia and New Zealand. "We are extremely pleased to have someone of Peter's calibre running our southern region business for us."