Riverbed Wins Bronze Honors in Storage Magazine's 2006 Storage Products of the Year Awards
Steelhead Appliances Recognized in Network Equipment Category
San Francisco, CA — March 1, 2007 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that the editors of Tech Target's Storage Media Group have awarded its Steelhead® appliances Bronze honors in the network equipment category in their prestigious Storage Products of the Year awards. The Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants, selected the "Products of the Year" from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between October 27, 2005 and November 3, 2006.
Riverbed's Steelhead appliances were selected based on six key criteria: ease of integration, functionality, innovation, manageability, performance and value, and as a top-scoring product was also evaluated on practicality and importance. The editors noted that "Riverbed Steelhead appliances, along with their upgraded operating system RIOS 3.0, do a lot of network magic to eliminate or drastically reduce network issues." To read the full article, visit www.riverbed.com/pr/techtarget.
"Winning this Storage magazine-SearchStorage.com award highlights how important WDS is in the storage market," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president, marketing and business development, at Riverbed. "IT is centralizing data storage due to security, economic and compliance pressures, and it relies on the WAN for data transfer and disaster recovery. Steelhead appliances let enterprises accelerate their disaster recovery and remote replication solutions, dramatically improving their data transfer rate. We give enterprises the optimization solutions they need to cost-effectively handle disaster recovery and minimize the amount of data lost during a disaster."
About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances
Riverbed's wide-area data services (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.
About Storage
TechTarget's Storage is the only monthly publication that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals.
Storage has received numerous awards, including the ASBPE Awards for Editorial Excellence and the Folio: Show "Ozzie" and "Eddie" Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism.
About SearchStorage.com
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 400,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com
content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com
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-K filed with the SEC on February 9, 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.
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.
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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