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Riverbed Named One of the Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area

^{Published on 2010-05-14 06:11:09 - Market Wire}
 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2010) - [ Riverbed Technology ] (NASDAQ: [ RVBD ]), the IT performance company, today announced that it has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times and its employees as one of the 2010 Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Riverbed® received this acknowledgement based upon its employees' high regard for the company's corporate philosophy, management best practices, benefits and overall compensation.

This year's list of the 125 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area garnered participation from a wide variety of companies. The companies were categorized based on the size of their Bay Area workforce. Riverbed competed in the "Very Large Companies" category, which includes companies with 501 - 1,500 employees located in the Bay Area. Riverbed's recognition is based on its employees' responses to a multiple-choice questionnaire that measured employee satisfaction across several categories: team effectiveness, alignment of goals, trust with coworkers, individual contribution, manager effectiveness, trust in senior leaders, feeling valued, work engagement and people practices.

"Riverbed has experienced significant growth since we established ourselves in San Francisco in 2002. We recognize and embrace that our value as a company is in the passionate creativity and intellectual capital of our employees," said Mike Guerchon, vice president of employee services at Riverbed. "We have encouraged our employees to keep the 'start up' Riverbed culture strong and alive even as we have grown into a company with global reach."

Riverbed brings the world closer together by enabling enterprises to run critical business applications up to 100 times faster across geographically dispersed offices, reduce wide area network (WAN) traffic by up to 95%, and enable employees to collaborate from any location as if they were in the same room. The Riverbed family of 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.

"We are a company committed to supporting our employees," continued Guerchon. "We look forward to continuing to build an innovative and challenging team environment and a network of intelligent people passionate about their work." To learn more about the Riverbed philosophy and employee experiences, visit the [ Life at Riverbed ] web page, and join Riverbed on [ Facebook ] and [ LinkedIn ].

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 April 30, 2010. 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 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 (NASDAQ: [ RVBD ]) is available at [ www.riverbed.com ].

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