Riverbed Focuses On The Intersection Between Software-Defined Data Centers and Application Delivery at Cloud Expo 2012

Today, Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, today announced that at Cloud Expo 2012 it will focus on the intersection between software-defined data centers and application delivery. At the conference, taking place November 5-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif., Riverbed® Vice President of Products and Marketing, Stingray Business Unit, Apurva Davé, will speak on the industry's progression to software-defined data centers (SDDC) and multi-cloud deployments during the session, "The Software Defined Data Center: Will it Disrupt Your Application Delivery Strategy?" Additionally, the company will showcase its Stingray™ application delivery product family, which is designed to work within cloud environments to make applications faster, reliable, and secure.

SAN FRANCISCO—November 05, 2012— "Global IT has already shifted toward virtualization and cloud computing, and with software-defined data centers, organizations must adapt their application delivery strategy, or risk being left behind," said Davé. "Part of that strategy includes having an ADC that is cloud-aware, as dynamic as the application itself, and able to fit into changing environments. Stingray Traffic Manager software and virtual edition are the ideal ADC solutions to support these SDDC environments and accelerate multi-tier applications quickly and cost-efficiently across any private, public, and hybrid cloud environment."

Unlike traditional application delivery controllers (ADC), software ADCs are designed to work within cloud environments and easily integrate into an application stack. Greater adoption of virtualization and migration to SDDCs increases the need for solutions that are easily adaptable.

The Riverbed Stingray product family is comprised of three products that can be deployed as software or as a virtual editions: the Stingray Traffic Manager which is a full-featured ADC, Stingray Aptimizer, an industry-leading web content optimization platform, and Stingray Application Firewall, a sophisticated application firewall for deeper application level security. At Cloud Expo, Riverbed (booth #1010) will showcase the business benefits of the entire Riverbed Stingray product family, highlighting its ability to support dynamic environments, including SDDCs and the cloud. Conference goers can engage with Apurva Davé during the "The Software Defined Data Center: Will it Disrupt Your Application Delivery Strategy?" session taking place Tuesday, November 6 at 5:20 p.m. PT.

Cloud Expo is one of the cloud industry's leading events at which cloud and Big Data professionals gather to exchange ideas, offer solutions and evaluate the impact the cloud has on organizations' business functions. More information on Cloud Expo 2012 is available at http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements regarding performance results of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, 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-Q filed with the SEC on October 25, 2012. 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.