Riverbed Expands Premier WDS Performance Summit to Locations Worldwide
Event Sponsors NetApp, SolidWorks and RadWare Showcase Complementary Solutions
San Francisco, CA — June 7, 2007 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced the expansion of its customer and partner conference, Accelerate 07: Riverbed Performance Summit, to premier locations worldwide, including Lisbon, Portugal, Phuket, Thailand, and San Francisco, California. Accelerate '07 is the best place for Riverbed® partners, customers and those considering deploying Riverbed's industry-leading solutions to learn how Riverbed and its wide-area data services are changing the way IT leaders think about global networks, data management, and distributed infrastructure. Event sponsors Network Appliance, SolidWorks and RadWare will showcase their solutions at the events and highlight how combining their solutions with Riverbed's delivers real customer value. To learn more about Accelerate '07, visit http://www.accelerate07.com/
"Accelerate '07 is the premier WDS gathering worldwide," said Jerry Kennelly, CEO and president of Riverbed. "Last year's conference in San Francisco was a tremendous success. Our customers and partners were able to learn from one another how to get the most out of their deployments and see the potential that Riverbed's WDS solutions bring in an accelerated world. We are looking forward to bringing this same energy and knowledge transfer to customers, prospects and partners around the globe."
Accelerate '07 attendees will receive in-depth technical information from Riverbed's experts. Attendees will also be able to participate in hands-on labs where they can test drive the latest gear. Riverbed co-founder and CEO, Jerry Kennelly, Chief Scientist, Mark Day, and other industry thought leaders and technology experts will discuss the future of both WDS and the IT industry. Heavy emphasis will be placed on real-world customer scenarios and how IT professionals are deploying Riverbed's WDS solutions and directly impacting their companies' success by enabling new and faster, more secure ways of doing business.
Dates and Locations
Lisbon, Portugal: June 6-8
http://www.accelerate07.com/lisbon/index.html
Phuket, Thailand: July 25-27
http://www.accelerate07.com/phuket/index.html
San Francisco, California: October 24-26
http://www.accelerate07.com/
About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances
Riverbed's 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 times 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. Steelhead appliances 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.
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.
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 27, 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.
Media Contacts:
Kim Kapustka
415-344-4476
kim@riverbed.com
Megan Atiyeh
Engage PR
(510) 748-8200 x228
matiyeh@engagepr.com
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