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Riverbed's Steelhead Appliance Named a Technology of the Year by InfoWorld for Third Consecutive Year
January 1, 2007 -- Riverbed Technology, Inc. RVBD, the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that InfoWorld has named Riverbed's Steelhead(R) appliance as the Best WAN Accelerator of 2007. InfoWorld established the WAN accelerator category in 2005; Riverbed has been the winner since the inception of the category, with InfoWorld awarding the Steelhead appliance a rating of 9.0 out of a maximum of 10 for three years running. To view this year's report, please visit www.riverbed.com/infoworld.
"The annual Technology of the Year Awards highlight the best products reviewed by the InfoWorld Test Center in the past year that are defining, and often redefining, the role of IT," said Steve Fox, InfoWorld's editor in chief. "Regardless of category, innovation thrives across enterprise IT."
According to InfoWorld's Technology of the Year writeup, "perennial winner Riverbed continues to impress with expanded CIFS and NFS support in 3.0, allowing for better performance with both Windows- and NFS-based servers. QoS can now be enforced in the appliance with policies based on bandwidth and latency. Detection and correction of asymmetric routes is also a big plus."
"This award is a reflection of our real-world experience with customers," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president, marketing and business development at Riverbed. "In head-to-head competition, organizations select Riverbed(R) over the alternatives, including Cisco and Juniper, the majority of the time. We offer customers the most proven, mature solution that is simple to install and manage and provides the best performance for the broadest range of applications important to their businesses."
InfoWorld reviewed Riverbed's Steelhead appliance models 200, 5520 and 6020, plus its new release of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS(TM)), in October 2006. The reviewer noted that, "true to form, the company provided excellent improvements with little tweaking. Release 3 of RiOS shows a more mature product, with the focus on improving existing features, the addition of greater application support, and much increased capacity. During its time on my bench, Steelhead proved again that it is more than capable of making oversubscribed WAN circuits appear faster than they were while greatly reducing response time, besting previous releases by as much as 20 percent." The full review is available at www.riverbed.com/infoworldreview.
About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances
Riverbed's wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites, by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100, between enterprise datacenters and remote offices, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Riverbed Steelhead appliances have been deployed in more than 1,300 organizations to date, 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. Click here to view our demo and find out why Riverbed's Steelhead appliances are the leading and fastest growing WDS solutions in the market.
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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the "Risk Factors" section in our final Prospectus dated September 20, 2006, and in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 31, 2006. 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.
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 RVBD is available at www.riverbed.com.
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. Contact Information: Riverbed Technology, Inc. Kim Kapustka, 415-344-4476 kim@riverbed.com or Engage PR Julie Huang, 510-748-8200 ext. 209 jhuang@engagepr.com
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