Accelerate '08: The Riverbed
Performance Summit
Premier Wide-Area Data Services Industry Conference Focused on Shattering Business and Technology Boundaries
San Francisco – May 27, 2008 – Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that it will host its customers, partners and industry thought leaders at Accelerate '08, The Riverbed® Performance Summit taking place June 4 – 6, 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. Riverbed is the technology and market leader in WDS, with over 4,500 global customers. The company's products are the first and only solution to comprehensively address a host of performance problems that prevent enterprises from effectively collaborating and sharing applications and data among offices, employees, partners and suppliers.
During the three-day conference, chief information officers and technology managers will meet with leading technology experts in enterprise IT, learn from respected peers about their own state-of-the-art WAN optimization deployments, and discover how to enable a network-powered IT infrastructure that delivers on the promise of global data dial tone. Accelerate '08 will have a wide selection of speaker sessions, technology demonstrations, and networking events. In addition to keynotes from Riverbed executives including co-founder and CEO, Jerry Kennelly, the event will feature a keynote presentation, "The Network is the Corporation. Are You Ready?" by Gartner Research Vice President, Joe Skorupa.
"In today's online world when a company's network is down they cease to exist as a functioning entity. In this new era the network is the business platform and an active element in the delivery of applications. It's not enough just to connect the dots anymore," says Skorupa. "My talk to the CIOs and technology managers at Accelerate '08 will address leveraging application fluent networking technologies to gain a strategic business advantage."
To delve into the full agenda, please visit http://www.accelerate08.com/index.html or contact Riverbed at accelerate08@riverbed.com.
| What: | Accelerate 2008: The Riverbed Performance Summit |
| When: | June 4 – 6, 2008 |
| Where: | Hotel AC Barcelona |
Steelhead Products
Riverbed 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, 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 April 29, 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.
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Media Contacts:
Kristalle Ward
Riverbed Technology
415-247-8140
kristalle.ward@riverbed.com
