San Francisco, CA, September 19, 2008 – Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced its participation at Storage Decisions taking place September 23 – 25 at the Hilton New York in New York City. Storage Decisions is a three-day conference that will delve in-depth into the practical application of "new" technologies and concepts – as well as provide the latest tips and advice on more traditional storage technology and practices. At its booth (#102), Riverbed® will provide attendees with IT consolidation approaches to improve asset utilization, operational efficiency and business agility, while helping to control IT costs and ensure end-user satisfaction.

To address the ever-changing enterprise environment that is simultaneously increasing the amount of data and amount of distance between the workforce, Riverbed introduced the 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. The RSP, which will be virtualized by VMware, allows customers to deploy best-of-breed services from a number of vendors on Steelhead® appliances in a self-contained partition to minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office. Services currently available for deployment on the RSP include streaming media, print services, and DNS/DHCP/IPAM. These services formerly required dedicated servers.

Customers can deploy these virtual appliances directly on Steelhead products to further minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office. Riverbed Steelhead appliances help enterprises dramatically speed up collaboration and move data across VMware environments, while at the same time allowing them to centralize and consolidate IT resources – all without sacrificing performance.

"Our customers are constantly looking for solutions that reduce their IT footprint. Reducing the infrastructure at branch offices has been an approach that makes a significant impact on the bottom line," said Alan Saldich, vice president of marketing and alliances at Riverbed. "Through our partnership with VMware, customers will be able to consolidate their IT infrastructures even further at branch offices by running up to five services in a virtual partition within the Steelhead appliance – ultimately creating a server-less branch office."

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, the Riverbed 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.

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 benefits of Riverbed's partnership with VMware, 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 July 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.

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.

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