http://www.riverbed.com News from Riverbed en-us Copyright 2009 Riverbed http://www.riverbed.com/rss Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed http://www.riverbed.com/images/logos/riverbed_small3.gif http://www.riverbed.com Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009 (Q1'09). Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_042309.php Apr 23, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that China Continent Property and Casualty Insurance Company Ltd. (CCIC), one of the top five property insurance companies in China, has deployed award-winning Riverbed® WAN optimization solutions, including Steelhead® appliances, Steelhead Mobile and the Central Management Console (CMC). The deployment was initiated to increase worker productivity and optimize IT infrastructure in order to support CCIC's core business expansion. As a result, CCIC has significantly enhanced the company's application performance and at the same time reduced its bandwidth utilization by more than 70 percent, which in turn enabled the deployment of additional applications without incremental bandwidth costs. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_042209.php Apr 22, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that the Riverbed® Steelhead® appliance received a Gold Award in the WAN Optimization / Application Delivery Products category of the SearchEnterpriseWAN.com™ 2009 Product Leadership Awards. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_041509.php Apr 15, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced plans to expand the Riverbed User Group (RVUG) Program after successfully completing the program's initial year. The global program is built upon the original online customer community forum, which has more than 50% of Riverbed customers as registered members. The RVUG program will now expand its support for user-driven meetings in over 20 regions worldwide. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_040609.php Apr 6, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation at Storage Networking World Spring 2009 taking place April 6-9, 2009 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel and Resort in Orlando, Florida. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_040109.php Apr 1, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) vendors for its Riverbed Partner Network (RPN) program. Riverbed® recently announced the launch of its global RPN with enhancements to the Value-added Resellers Program within North America. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_033009.php Mar 30, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that global electrical components company Lucy Switchgear has deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances across its organization. Following deployment, Lucy Switchgear bandwidth requirements have dropped by 50 percent, and as a result the company avoided a costly upgrade to its wide area network. In addition, employee productivity and global collaboration at Lucy Switchgear have improved as file download times have dropped from several minutes to as little as seconds. According to Lucy Switchgear, Riverbed is now an essential part of its IT infrastructure. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_032509.php Mar 25, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation at the SATELLITE 2009 conference taking place March 24 – 27 at the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington, DC.  At the conference, Riverbed will exhibit its WAN optimization solutions, which allow organizations to access applications across a satellite wide area network (WAN) while reducing costs. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_031809.php Mar 18, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that Carhartt, a Michigan-based manufacturer of premium workwear, has purchased and installed Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances at locations in North America and Europe. Carhartt deployed the Steelhead appliances to speed performance of its centralized applications and to accommodate growth in Europe. Carhatt experienced a 10-month payback period on its Riverbed investment. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_031009.php Mar 10, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation in the annual FOSE 2009 conference, taking place March 10 – 12 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. At the conference, Riverbed® will showcase its award-winning WAN optimization solutions that liberate government organizations from common IT constraints by dramatically improving application performance, enabling consolidation without disruption, and providing end-to-end network and application visibility. Riverbed IT infrastructure performance solutions drive mission effectiveness and enable government agencies and departments to meet mandates for telework, green computing, continuity of operations (COOP) and cost-cutting. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_030609b.php Mar 6, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that, in accordance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4350 (i)(1)(A)(iv), it has granted inducement stock options covering an aggregate of 390,075 shares of common stock to fifty-seven non-officer employees. All of the optionees are former employees of Mazu Networks, Inc., which was acquired by Riverbed® in February 2009. Each option has been classified as a non-qualified stock option, has an exercise price equal to the fair market value on the grant date, and has a seven-year term. Each option vests over four years, with 25% vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable vesting commencement date, and then equal monthly amounts vesting over the following three years. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_030609a.php Mar 6, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced enhancements to its global Riverbed Partner Network (RPN), with specific enhancements to the RPN Value-added Resellers Program within North America. The RPN is a worldwide channel program that enables and rewards channel partners, including service integrators, service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and distributors that distribute and resell Riverbed® award-winning technology. New program features in North America include VAR categorization, forward investment and channel rewards from Riverbed that enhance its partners’ business opportunities. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_030309.php Mar 3, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that Milacron Inc., a leading global supplier of plastics-processing technologies and industrial fluids, has successfully deployed Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances worldwide to increase application acceleration for its global organization. The deployment of the Riverbed solution has enabled Milacron's employees to collaborate faster while allowing Milacron to avoid expensive bandwidth upgrades. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_030209.php Mar 2, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced today that its WAN optimization solution won the highest honor, a gold award, in Storage Magazine's 2008 Storage Products of the Year Awards, Networking equipment category. The Riverbed® WAN optimization solution has been previously recognized in the same category by Storage Magazine, winning the Silver award in 2007 and the Bronze award in 2006. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_022409.php Feb 24, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Mazu Networks. Riverbed also announced that it has appointed Mazu CEO Paul Brady to run the Riverbed Application Intelligence Business Unit. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_022009.php Feb 20, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its participation at VMworld Europe 2009, taking place February 24-26 at The Palais des Festivals in Cannes. In addition, Riverbed® customer Lantmännen, one of the largest groups in the food, energy and agricultural industries in the Nordic region, will share its real-world experience of its WAN optimization implementation to drastically reduce IT infrastructure costs by eliminating latency and bandwidth issues while delivering LAN-like performance to remote users. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_021909.php Feb 19, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced today that it has licensed Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for integration on the Riverbed® Steelhead® appliance through the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP). The RSP is a virtualized partition within the Steelhead appliance that allows customers to deploy applications critical to the branch office as virtualized services on the appliance, enabling them to further consolidate their IT infrastructure. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_021709.php Feb 17, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – February 6, 2009 – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, and its customer Bucyrus International will present at SolidWorks World 2009 taking place February 8 – 11, 2009 at Walt Disney® World Swan & Dolphin Hotel. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_020609.php Feb 6, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter (Q4’08) and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 (FY’08). Revenues for Q4’08 were $92.2 million. Revenues for Q4’08 increased 21% from $76.3 million reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007 (Q4’07) and increased 7% from $86.5 million reported in the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 (Q3’08). Revenues for FY’08 were $333.3 million, a 41% increase from $236.4 million of revenues in fiscal year 2007 (FY’07). Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_020309b.php Feb 3, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it has obtained EMC qualification for its market-leading Steelhead® appliances, which allows companies to accelerate disaster recovery processes while reducing overall IT costs, to work with Symmetrix® Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous product (SRDF/A). SRDF is EMC’s business continuity solution that provides a host-independent, mirrored data storage solution for duplicating production site data to one or more physically separated Symmetrix® enterprise storage systems. EMC E-Lab qualification means that joint customers can now deploy Riverbed’s wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions deep into their largest data centers with confidence. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_020309.php Feb 3, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, will participate in the annual LegalTech New York 2009 conference, taking place February 2-4 at the Hilton New York Hotel. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_013009.php Jan 30, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that the company is working with HP ProCurve to deliver WAN optimization through the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (HP ProCurve ONE), a new multi-vendor alliance program. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_012609.php Jan 26, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD) and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading communications group, announced today that they are collaborating to provide the SingTel Traffic Optimization and Profiling Service Application Accelerator (TOPS AA) service based on Riverbed's WAN optimization solutions. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_012109.php Jan 21, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) today announced it has agreed to acquire Mazu Networks, a privately-owned company that helps organizations manage, secure and optimize the availability and performance of global applications. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_012009a.php Jan 20, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD) today announced that it expects fourth quarter fiscal 2008 revenues of approximately $91 to $92 million, representing a Riverbed® record for quarterly revenue, and approximately 20% growth over the same period one year ago. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_012009b.php Jan 20, 2009 Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD) today announced that InfoWorld has named Riverbed Steelhead® appliances running RiOS® 5.0 as the winner of the best WAN Accelerator of 2009 award. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_011409.php Jan 14, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD) today announced that the New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has selected and deployed a range of Riverbed Steelhead appliances, and also the Steelhead Mobile client acceleration software, at 101 distributed sites across NSW. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_011309.php Jan 13, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in WAN optimization, today announced that its customer, Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), is among the winners of the 2008 InfoWorld 100 awards. The annual awards name 100 companies that have made the best use of technology to enhance their business. The InfoWorld 100 awards celebrate IT projects that use technology in smart, innovative, creative ways to meet business and technical objectives. This is the second consecutive year that Riverbed® customers have been recognized by InfoWorld 100 for success with WAN optimization deployments. Last year’s winners included Riverbed customers Gensler and Defense Contract Management Agency. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_011209.php Jan 12, 2009 Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in WAN optimization, today announced that its customer, Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), is among the winners of the 2008 InfoWorld 100 awards. The annual awards name 100 companies that have made the best use of technology to enhance their business. The InfoWorld 100 awards celebrate IT projects that use technology in smart, innovative, creative ways to meet business and technical objectives. This is the second consecutive year that Riverbed® customers have been recognized by InfoWorld 100 for success with WAN optimization deployments. Last year’s winners included Riverbed customers Gensler and Defense Contract Management Agency. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_010709.php Jan 07, 2009 Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in WAN optimization, today announced that mobile phone operator The Zain Group has selected and deployed Riverbed Steelhead; appliances at 75 sites. As a result, the company has experienced increased application acceleration and a return on investment in seven months. Full Story... http://www.riverbed.com/company/news/press_releases/press_010609.php Jan 06, 2009