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Riverbed Launches New AI-Driven Intelligent Network Observability Solutions Providing Automated Insights, Higher Performance, and Greater Value

Bundled Solutions Include Riverbed IQ Essentials to Surface Root Causes While Enabling Proactive and Accelerated Remediation Across Complex, Hybrid Environments

Riverbed Observability Bookings experience 92% Growth in First Half 2025

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 5, 2025 – Driven by a new era of compounding data and applications growth, Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced the launch of its new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions, significantly enhancing network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enabling them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges.¹ The new solutions will deliver even greater value for the Riverbed Platform, and build on strong market momentum –with Riverbed observability bookings growth of 92% year-over-year (YoY) in the first half of 2025. With this launch, Riverbed is ushering in a new era of intelligent network observability, shaped by the realities of increasing enterprise complexity and grounded in the emerging requirements of a seamless digital experience.

Supporting surging network traffic demands, Riverbed’s launch includes the rollout of the new Riverbed xx90 appliance series for its AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings, delivering up to 3x the performance of the previous generation systems at the same price. For organizations seeking to maximize their technology investments while optimizing cost-savings, customers can now consume these new intelligent network observability solutions through the Riverbed Flex Subscription offering. Flex Subscription allows IT teams to deploy Riverbed licenses anywhere on the network, including hardware, virtual, or cloud instances, without additional software costs. These new AI-powered network observability solutions mark Riverbed’s 3^rd major product release this year.

“Our relentless pace of innovation continues to set the standard in our industry—and it’s only accelerating,” said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. “With today’s launch, we’re unveiling our next-generation Riverbed xx90 systems, offering dramatically higher performance and efficiency, alongside significant software advancements in network performance monitoring and enterprise-wide observability—now packaged and integrated with Riverbed IQ for AI-driven insights. These new solutions respond directly to our customers’ priorities: streamlining tool sets, unifying and simplifying network management, and automating for efficiency. And, with the Riverbed Flex offer, customers gain even greater software licensing flexibility, investment protection and cost savings.”

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The new Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is now available with the purchase of either AppResponse packet capture and analysis or NetProfiler enterprise-scale hybrid flow monitoring. Included in the Network Observability Essentials bundle is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enable proactive and accelerated remediation across complex, hybrid network environments:

Riverbed IQ: SaaS-based AI that pinpoints issues and speeds resolution – no extra infrastructure needed.
Workspaces: Role-based dashboards that unify packet, flow, and endpoint insights to provide contextual visibility for every team.²
Grafana Plug-In: Seamless integration for organizations using Grafana to visualize Riverbed observability data in their existing dashboards.³
Topology Viewer: Dynamic, map-based visualization that correlates network topology with application and user performance to speed triage.

The Essentials Bundle is available with Riverbed Flex, which delivers greater architectural freedom, license portability, value retention, and lower total cost of ownership. With Flex Licensing, customers can:

Re-allocate licenses across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployment.
Streamline budget planning with predictable OPEX-based pricing.
Support future growth and transitions without needing to re-purchase software.

This licensing approach enables IT teams to align network observability investments with evolving business needs, whether optimizing for resilience, performance, or AI-driven automation.

Built to Scale: Performance Without Bottlenecks

Riverbed’s new xx90 appliance family are purpose-built to support the scale, speed, and precision required in today’s distributed enterprise networks. Whether deployed for AppResponse, NetProfiler, or Flow Gateway, the xx90 family delivers high-throughput performance for both packet and flow capture without compromise.

As part of the recent update, AppResponse 11.21 enables real-time triage of encrypted IPSec ESP tunnel traffic and cipher hygiene, even across globally distributed environments. AppResponse 11.21 on xx90 systems offers sustained packet capture over 50 Gbps, concurrent packet capture and analysis, and scalable modular storage exceeding 2.4 PB.

For flow-based monitoring and analytics, the same xx90 system powers the new 10.29 version of NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, delivering unmatched flow visibility and analysis at scale. With 3x faster reporting and analysis and 2x faster throughput, the new software also includes dynamic Flow Load Balancing and full support for Versa SD-WAN.

Together, these high-performance appliances boost performance for collecting the full-fidelity network data that serve as the backbone of Riverbed’s Intelligent Network Observability, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable network operations across corporate networks.

“My latest research shows that as organizations prepare their infrastructure for AI applications and data, they need monitoring solutions that are scalable and intelligent. Organizations must move beyond legacy tools and embrace AI-driven observability to gain real-time insights, streamline operations, and meet the performance demands of modern infrastructure,” said Shamus McGillicuddy, Research Vice President at EMA. “Riverbed is delivering a truly modern, scalable, and intelligent network observability strategy.”

To learn more about how Riverbed is helping organizations modernize observability and turn insight into impact, visit www.riverbed.com, schedule a demo, or contact your Riverbed representative today.

[1] ABI Research. “Increased Demand for Bandwidth-Intensive Services Cause Mobile Data Traffic to Surge Threefold by 2030.”

2 Anticipated Availability in Q4 of 2025

3 Anticipated Availability in Q1 of 2026

About Riverbed

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their users’ experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improve IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at riverbed.com

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