Riverbed to Participate at Interop
Las Vegas 2008
WDS Pioneer Features Joint Partner Solutions, Participates in CIO Boot Camp, Drives Industry Discussions on Accelerating Global Business
SAN FRANCISCO – April 22, 2008 – Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that it will showcase its WDS products at the Interop Las Vegas 2008 conference, April 27 – May 2, 2008 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Riverbed® will also drive discussions on accelerating global business by participating in panel discussions on building a global office, branch office optimization, and application delivery.
Riverbed is the leader in WDS, with over 4,500 global customers. The company's products are the first comprehensive solution to solve a host of performance problems that prevent enterprises from effectively sharing applications and data among offices and employees located around the globe. Riverbed will demonstrate the capabilities of its WDS solutions, including its recently introduced Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), an extensible data services platform that enables the delivery of virtualized edge services without the need to deploy additional physical servers at remote or branch offices. In addition, Riverbed will feature its partners Compellent, Mazu, NetDialog and Infoblox who will discuss how Riverbed customers can leverage complementary solutions to better accelerate applications over the WAN, produce additional cost savings and add flexibility to IT infrastructure.
Attendees can learn more about Riverbed and WDS by engaging with the company at the following places at Interop Las Vegas 2008:
| What: | Riverbed exhibiting; Demonstrating WDS and joint partner solutions |
| Where: | Booth # 539 |
| When: | The exhibit hall will be open Tuesday, April 29, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, April 30, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Thursday, May 1, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
| What: | CIO Boot Camp: Globalization: From the Global Village to the Global Office Building |
| Who: | Alan Saldich, Riverbed vice president of product marketing and alliances |
| When: | Monday, April 28, 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
| What: | Branch Office Optimization Panel |
| Who: | Alan Saldich, Riverbed vice president of product marketing and alliances |
| When: | Wednesday, April 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
| What: | The Future of Application Delivery Panel |
| Who: | Eric Wolford, Riverbed senior vice president of marketing & business development |
| When: | Thursday, May 1, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Steelhead Products
Riverbed's WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices, and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies
to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements regarding the likelihood that enterprises will continue site consolidation and WAN acceleration projects in the current or changing economic environment, statements regarding the growth characteristics of, and customer demand relating to, the WDS market, statements regarding customer payback following implementation of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 15, 2008. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.
Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Media Contacts:
Kristalle Ward
Riverbed Technology
415-247-8140
kristalle.ward@riverbed.com
