San Francisco, CA — July 26, 2006 —Riverbed Technology, Inc. today announced that Dave Peranich has joined the company as senior vice president, worldwide sales. In his role, Peranich will be responsible for driving Riverbed’s global sales strategy and company revenue. Peranich brings with him more than twenty years of experience leading successful sales, business development and product organizations for some of the world's leading enterprise software companies, including Siebel Systems and Remedy Corporation.

“Riverbed and our technology operate at the intersection of networking, storage and applications, accelerating application performance to meet the demands of global workforce collaboration and IT centralization,” said Jerry Kennelly, CEO and president of Riverbed. “Dave’s many years of experience building and leading sales teams for global software companies make him an ideal candidate to lead the Riverbed sales organization. His depth of experience in working with enterprise software customers gives Dave a unique perspective on the demand for Riverbed’s award-winning solutions.”

Most recently, Peranich was CEO and president at Centrata, a provider of IT Service Delivery Management solutions. Prior to joining Centrata, Peranich acted as vice president and general manager of worldwide alliances for Siebel Systems, the industry's leading CRM provider. Under his leadership, the alliance organization drove annual revenues in excess of $300M. Peranich was previously vice president and general manager for Siebel's Call Center and Service Products where he was responsible for product strategy and development, product marketing, analyst relations, customer success and world wide product revenues for the company's largest product line.

Prior to joining Siebel, Peranich was vice president in charge of sales for Remedy in the Americas. At Remedy, he led all aspects of direct and channel sales, telesales, and sales operations for North and South America and managed a team of 190 employees. Peranich has also held a variety of sales and engineering positions for Oracle, Decisive Technology, Lockheed Missiles & Space and the Martin Marietta Corp. Peranich received his masters of science in systems management from the University of Southern California and a bachelors of science in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

“Riverbed is a leader in the market for wide-area data services,” said Peranich. “In just over two years, the company counts more than 1000 customers, more than 200 global reseller partners and OEM partners worldwide. I look forward to working to build on this success.”

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,” and Network Computing named Riverbed the winner of its 2006 Well-Connected Award for Remote Office Network Infrastructure.  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. For more information about Riverbed, visit www.riverbed.com.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS 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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