SAN FRANCISCO—April 15, 2015— Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the leader in application performance infrastructure, today announced it will host the eighth annual SharkFest '15 Wireshark® Educational Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. June 22 - 25. SharkFest is an annual event, established to bring together the global Wireshark developer and user communities to share knowledge and experience, and advance the evolution of the open source project. Wireshark is the world's most popular free packet and network analyzer, helping IT Professionals analyze, isolate, troubleshoot, secure, and remediate network issues, and assisting developers in protocol-debugging exercises, to name a few of its benefits.
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At SharkFest, knowledge, experience, and best practices are shared among members of the Wireshark global developer and user communities. Participants come together to hone their skills in the art of packet analysis by attending a rich and varied schedule of sessions taught by the most seasoned experts in the industry. New for SharkFest '15 is "The Reef," a drop-in mentoring area open each conference day. In The Reef, attendees can:
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"SharkFest provides a rich schedule of instruction in the art of packet analysis for beginners as well as more experienced Wireshark users in a relaxed and informal setting that encourages the interchange of ideas, experience, and tribal knowledge," said Gerald Combs, Director of Open Source Projects at Riverbed, and original author of the Wireshark source code. "In our 17-year history, the Wireshark project has evolved considerably and the community that comes together at SharkFest accelerates this evolution. Riverbed is proud to sponsor and host SharkFest and contribute to its educational mission."
Wireshark is the world's most popular, free network analyzer with more than one million downloads per month. Created by Gerald Combs under the original name Ethereal, today Wireshark is maintained by a dedicated group of core developers and sponsored by Riverbed through its 2010 acquisition of CACE Technologies, Inc. As the sponsor, Riverbed is committed to maintaining the strong, independent, and community-driven nature of Wireshark.
Conference Registration
Conference registration is open. The conference registration fee is $1,295, with discounts available for active duty and veteran military personnel, CS students, faculty and IT staff associated with accredited academic institutions, IT staff from non-profit organizations, and returning SharkFest attendees. Riverbed customers can receive a 30% sponsor discount by contacting sharkfest@riverbed.com. For more information and to register, please visit: http://sharkfest.wireshark.org.
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