Riverbed Demonstrates Application Performance Solutions for Microsoft Environments at TechEd North America 2013

SAN FRANCISCO—May 30, 2013— Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced its participation at Microsoft's TechEd North America 2013, taking place June 3-6 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. At the conference, Riverbed® will demonstrate its performance platform solutions, including wide area network (WAN) optimization, application delivery controllers (ADCs) with web content optimization and web application firewall capability, and performance management solutions in Microsoft environments. Through an ongoing strategic relationship, Riverbed and Microsoft continue to enable enterprises to move to consolidated, cloud, and virtualized Microsoft environments without compromising the performance of day-to-day applications.

News Highlights

At the Riverbed booth (#711), Riverbed will demonstrate application performance solutions including Riverbed Steelhead® WAN optimization appliances, Steelhead Cloud Accelerator, Stingray® Traffic Manager ADC with web content optimization (WCO) and web application firewall software and Riverbed Performance Management solutions, including Cascade® application-aware network performance management (NPM) and OPNET application performance management (APM) solutions.

• Steelhead WAN optimization solutions deliver speed, scale, simplicity, and security for Microsoft applications, overcoming bandwidth and geographical limitations to improve productivity and enable global collaboration. Steelhead Cloud Accelerator improves application performance and manages the delivery of business-critical data and content in Microsoft Office 365 environments while decreasing bandwidth utilization.
• Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, a software based ADC with integrated WCO and web application firewall capabilities, allows IT to consolidate, scale, and move applications easily between physical data centers, virtual environments, and the cloud. This flexibility is critical for customers with hybrid cloud environments and provides scalability and agility that cannot be matched by hardware.
• Riverbed Performance Management solutions, which include the Cascade application-aware NPM and OPNET APM product lines, deliver a unique combination of end-user experience monitoring, transaction tracing, and deep component monitoring correlated with IT infrastructure/network intelligence to maximize the performance, availability, and productivity of critical applications throughout their entire lifecycle. The latest release of OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5 delivers seamless integration with Microsoft Visual Studio to streamline application debugging and troubleshooting. Application support teams can use AppInternals Xpert in test and production environments to identify issues early and rapidly remediate performance problems before end-users and customers are impacted. 

More than 22,000 organizations worldwide depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure, through solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data. As IT organizations embark on strategic initiatives to virtualize, consolidate and migrate workloads into cloud environments, users are moved farther from their data. Slow applications, slow file transfers and inefficient websites can negatively impact the performance and success of these initiatives. Riverbed transforms IT performance by providing solutions spanning WAN optimization, storage delivery, application-aware network performance management, application performance management, application delivery controllers, web content optimization (WCO), and cloud data protection. By providing the broadest portfolio of performance solutions that deliver anywhere, any-application optimization, Riverbed enables organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, while enhancing business resilience and controlling costs.

Strengthening Partnership with Microsoft

The strategic partnership between Riverbed and Microsoft ensures that organizations can confidently deploy qualified Riverbed application performance solutions, including WAN optimization, performance management, ADC, WCO, and cloud data protection in Microsoft environments.  This helps our joint customers increase productivity and efficiency, while enhancing business resilience and controlling costs using a variety of Microsoft products. Employees can share information without compromising the performance of day-to-day applications and management, while moving to the cloud, cutting costs, and supporting remote workers. 

Microsoft TechEd North America 2013

TechEd is Microsoft's annual premier technology conference taking place June 3-6 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. This event is for IT professionals, developers, and Microsoft's technology partners, including IT professionals and developers to learn more about the future of Microsoft's products, solutions and service through announcements and demos at the conference. To learn more about Microsoft's TechEd, visit: http://northamerica.msteched.com/#fbid=Xl7Vw5CVLAq

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for and benefits from Riverbed's products and services. 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 May 3, 2013. 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. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.