TWO RIVERBED CUSTOMERS NAMED TO INFOWORLD 100
Golder Associates and Defense Contract Management Agency Selected as Winners for Cutting-Edge Implementations of Riverbed’s WDS Solutions
San Francisco, CA — November 14, 2007 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that two of its customers, Golder Associates and Defense Contract Management Agency, are among the winners of this year’s InfoWorld 100 awards. The annual awards honor IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. Both customers have experienced increased application performance and significant productivity gains from their deployments of Riverbed's Steelhead® WDS appliances.
WDS accelerates applications and data for remote offices, data centers and mobile workers across wide-area networks (WANs), making them run up to 100 times faster. WDS solutions from Riverbed® allow organizations to become more nimble, flexible, and competitive by dramatically speeding up IT consolidation, allowing higher productivity for remote offices, eliminating slow application frustration for end-users, dramatically shortening backup and replication time, reducing traffic on WANs, and enabling mobile workers to be significantly more productive.
Golder Associates Enables Global Collaboration with Riverbed’s WDS
Golder Associates, a global group specializing in ground engineering and environmental services, wanted to improve client service and global collaboration by creating a centralized SharePoint Intranet, without increasing its WAN data traffic and slowing down operations for its employees. Golder needed to quickly improve its application performance while seamlessly integrating its application system with its Cisco-based routing infrastructure.
Once Golder determined that solutions from Cisco and F5 Networks were too hard to configure and manage, and featured low acceleration performance, they decided to deploy Riverbed’s WDS technology for its ability to meet these needs and provide real-time collaboration for its more than 5,500 employees. To specifically address access limitations of mobile workers and smaller offices, Golder deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead Mobile software, resulting in access to the Intranet portal with the same LAN-like speed without requiring individual appliances.
“We are finally able to meet the needs of our globally distributed network. Our 150 plus offices can now access the company Intranet at LAN-like speed anytime, anywhere. This opens up a huge floodgate of global collaboration and improved client service across all of our offices,” said Joe Potegal, senior network engineer at Golder. “Not only has this deployment reduced WAN data traffic by almost 40 percent, it has empowered mobile workers and smaller offices with the same performance as users in the headquarters and branch offices. Now all of Golder’s employees, regardless of their location, are empowered with massive productivity gains.”
Defense Contract Management Agency Consolidates Global IT Assets
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is an independent combat support agency within the Department of Defense. The Agency undertook a massive IT project, consolidating over 600 servers from 17 mini data centers to just two primary data centers to reduce its resource costs and management overhead. Through this consolidation the DCMA did not want user quality to suffer. Since the DCMA wanted its on-network and remote users to both receive LAN-like quality services over its WAN, upgrading the WAN connection seemed like the right approach.
DCMA soon determined that upgrading its WAN connection wasn’t enough to meet its business needs due to “chatty” application protocols. Application performance optimization is important to the DCMA because it has over 9,500 distributed users – all of which perform multiple transactions over the WAN. In a consolidated environment, data requests that were previously served by local infrastructure are now taking place over the WAN. Without a Riverbed solution to accelerate those applications, those requests would result in congested networks, poor application performance and frustrated, unproductive users.
According to the DCMA’s Director of Architecture and Infrastructure Information Technology Customer Service Organization, Lorenzo Carter, “By using Riverbed, we were able to consolidate all types of servers from a branch office with one simple plug-and-play Riverbed Steelhead appliance. We were able to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of remote office infrastructure while guaranteeing the performance that its end users need.”
To read more about the 2007 InfoWorld 100 list, please go to: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=93246
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 performance 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, 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-Q filed with the SEC on October 25, 2007. 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.
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