Science & Technology 
Science and Technology
Science and Technology 
Wed, January 14, 2009
Riverbed Technology: Riverbed WAN Optimization Named a Technology of the Year by InfoWorld for Fifth Year in a Row
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - January 14, 2009) - Riverbed Technology (
Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. The award is recognition of Riverbed's technology leadership and continued success in delivering best-of-breed WAN optimization solutions that help companies to consolidate IT infrastructure and improve staff productivity and collaboration, while cutting costs. Especially in today's macroeconomic environment, Riverbed has become a must-have IT infrastructure technology to help CIOs do more with less.
Riverbed offers a complete WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications and data for remote offices, data centers, and mobile workers across wide area networks (WANs), accelerating access to applications and data up to 100 times faster. The speed, improved productivity and cost savings delivered by Riverbed solutions allows organizations to be more nimble, flexible and competitive by enabling IT consolidation without sacrificing user performance, allowing higher productivity for remote offices, eliminating end user frustration caused by slow applications, dramatically shortening backup and replication times, reducing traffic on WANs, and even enabling significant improvements in mobile worker productivity. Over 5,000 customers have implemented Riverbed WAN optimization solutions across their geographically dispersed organizations.
According to InfoWorld's Technology of the Year article, "Perennial winner Riverbed still leads the way in WAN acceleration. CIFS and FTP traffic receive excellent speed boosts in the 2008 edition, and the native support for Exchange improves Outlook response over the WAN. An improved QoS engine helps keep traffic flows in line, and three modes of transparency should eliminate any WAN monitoring complaints. New optimizations for dynamic HTTP and a better system for setting up HTTPS connections bring even more value."
With the introduction of RiOS 5.0 in February 2008, Riverbed was the first vendor to provide application-level protocol optimization for Microsoft Exchange 2007. This makes Riverbed the first and the only vendor to accelerate Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007. Also in this release, Riverbed built upon its lead in delivering solutions to enhance IT flexibility and capabilities with new scale, simplicity and security features, including the new Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) for delivering virtualized edge services without the need to deploy additional branch office servers.
"This accomplishment is a result of our product management and development teams staying laser-focused on meeting and exceeding our customers' ever-changing and growing business and IT requirements. Enhancements to our WAN optimization solution are incorporated with the goal of allowing enterprises to make their workforces more efficient while keeping IT infrastructure costs down," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president of product marketing. "We are honored to receive positive industry recognition year after year."
Steelhead Products
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: [ www.riverbed.com/pr/jack ].
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, 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 30, 2008. 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.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in WAN optimization solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (
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