Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Tue, April 7, 2009
Mon, April 6, 2009
Riverbed Technology: Riverbed Expands Customer User Group, Supports New Events
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 6, 2009) - Riverbed Technology (
The Riverbed User Groups provide customers with a forum to discuss best practices and share expertise, be among the first to learn about Riverbed product updates and features, and provide direct feedback to Riverbed product management. To date, Riverbed users have participated in meetings in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Ottawa, Raleigh, Atlanta, New York, New Jersey and Orlando.
"The Riverbed User Group Program gives end users an opportunity to learn about new Riverbed features directly from the Riverbed team. These forums, hosted by Riverbed, also give users an opportunity to discuss and share their experiences with Riverbed as well as a direct line of communication to the development team," said Riverbed customer Skip Taylor, Senior Network Administrator at Jordan, Jones & Goulding.
The User Groups are made up of independent communities of Riverbed users who get together to exchange ideas and information. A wide range of technical topics are discussed at each event relating to organizational cost-cutting initiatives, such as IT consolidation and virtualization. At each event Riverbed supports a hands-on experience with new and upcoming features on Steelhead® appliances, Steelhead Mobile and the Riverbed Services Platform. In addition, this year's events will provide insight into the Riverbed Cascade appliances, which provide visibility into end-to-end application delivery dependencies and network behavior analysis.
"The Riverbed User Group sessions have proven extremely valuable to us here at the Canadian Cancer Society - Ontario Division by giving us an opportunity to not only receive updates on new products and features but to participate in the question and answer sessions with other users on how these new products and features may be implemented or how they will impact performance," said Riverbed customer Gerry Holmes, Director, Information Technology at Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division. "This type of discussion doesn't occur in a one-on-one vendor visit or presentation in your office. Questions quite often raised by other users are not ones you would have thought of on your own or they may inspire you to ask a further question. The RVUG has also provided a useful networking opportunity with other users in our community with whom we can exchange ideas and experiences outside of the User Group meetings."
Riverbed customers interested in participating or championing regional forums can register online at [ http://www.riverbed.com/company/community/rvug// ]
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-K filed with the SEC on February 23, 2009. 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 IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility -- all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (
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