San Francisco, CA — May 3, 2006 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. announced today that it has won the CMP Media LLC Network Computing Well-Connected Award in the remote office solutions category.

"The Well-Connected Awards are unique because they're the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world use and integration. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readersour peersdo," said John Siefert, publisher of Network Computing.

"This is an important distinction from any other award programthe products selected in the Well-Connected Awards have been tested in an actual business environment and judged by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that workand we have the metrics to prove it."

The Network Computing reviewer who tested Riverbed's Steelhead® appliances praised the products for their performance, noting that "the Steelheads were speeding file transfers (CIFS, FTP) and application services (MAPI, Microsoft SQL) between the data center and branch office, reducing transmissions that typically took minutes to seconds." In naming Riverbed the winner of the Well-Connected Award, Network Computing evaluated the Steelhead appliances against other remote office alternatives and chose Riverbed over other competition.

"In my tests, data traversing the WAN link for the first time had improved performance of 60 percent to 90 percent, depending on the file type," wrote reviewer Sean Doherty. "But the real story here is what happens after that first pass, when data passes through the Steelhead for a second time--that's where SDR (Scalable Data Referencing) comes in."

Doherty continued, "In my tests, after data went through a Steelhead the second time, response time was so quick, it was like requesting data from a local disk for small files--less than one second. For larger files, it was like requesting data from a remote disk on the LAN."

Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead appliances accelerate enterprise applications typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices. The Steelhead appliance's intelligent optimizations give companies that share data and collaborate between distributed offices significant performance improvements for a broad range of applications that are important to their businesses, offering these companies the ability to simplify IT infrastructure and realize significant capital and operational cost savings.

Unlike competing approaches that are built primarily on either a network-compression or storage (caching) philosophy (like many WAFS-only architectures), Steelhead appliances are based on the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) that accelerates all TCP-based applications, including common applications like Windows file sharing, MAPI, Microsoft SQL and DPM, NetApp's SnapMirror, Symantec's NetBackup and FTP, while adding incremental application-specific latency optimizations to minimize the impact of latency on key applications. Riverbed's intelligent optimizations also enable remote office IT consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization and acceleration of data replication and backup for disaster recovery.

Network Computing is the trusted information source which helps 220,000 Technology Leaders turn business strategy into reality. The editorial team consists of real-world IT veterans who provide objective information and analysis on technologies and solutions that are tested in IT media's only Real-World Labsa setting which mirrors our audience's work environment. Network Computing's critical analysis of market solutions and their impact on an organization is infused in every aspect of the brand, from the award-winning publication and networkcomputing.com, to NWCReports.com, and the events such as the Expert Series Tour and Technology Leader forum. Network Computing is consistently honored for its editorial excellence, garnering accolades from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), as well as winning Maggie Awards from Western Publications Association and Folio magazine's Ozzie Awards.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. 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. The Wall Street Journal named Riverbed the winner of its 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the Network/ Broadband/Internet category. In addition, InfoWorld has named Riverbed's Steelhead appliance "Technology of the Year" in both 2005 and 2006, as the "Best WAN Accelerator". Riverbed's award-winning solutions are available worldwide from resellers who are members of the Riverbed Partner Network, from Riverbed OEM partners, or directly from Riverbed.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead 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.

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Media Contact:

Kim Kapustka
(415) 344 4476
kim@riverbed.com

 

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