Network World Names Riverbed Customer as Enterprise All-Star Award Winner
Golder Associates Recognized for Business-Changing Implementation of Riverbed's Wide-Area Data Services Products
San Francisco, CA — November 26, 2007 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced Golder Associates, a global group specializing in ground engineering and environmental services and Riverbed® customer, has been selected as one of Network World's Enterprise All-Stars for 2007. The competition, in its third year, drew more than 75 entrants from which the publication selected the companies that best showed how to capitalize on emerging technology or to implement more mature technology in new or particularly business-enhancing ways.
According to Network World, Golder stood out for its use of WDS appliances to facilitate quick and easy access to a global, SharePoint-based intranet plus to streamline data backups. Also impressive is the projected substantial ROI savings in infrastructure upgrades the company expects to achieve over three years. Golder first approached Riverbed with a need 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 alternatives 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 WAN applications with similar LAN-like speed without requiring individual appliances.
"Implementing Riverbed's solution has definitely changed the way we do business. The results speak for themselves – a 40 percent reduction of WAN data traffic and overall increase of network performance for all employees, no matter their location," said Joe Potegal, senior network engineer at Golder. Based on its implementation of Riverbed's WDS, Golder was also named to the 2007 InfoWorld 100 list for its creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals.
For the full Network World article, please visit: www.networkworld.com/allstar/2007.
About Network World
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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 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, statements about market share results that may suggest trends for our business, and statements relating to Riverbed’s ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations, grow market share or grow the market as a whole. 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.
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