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Science and Technology
Mon, July 19, 2010
Riverbed Named Q1 2010 Global Market Share Leader in WAN Optimization
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - July 19, 2010) - [ Riverbed Technology ](
Enterprises and government organizations leverage [ Riverbed WAN optimization ] to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility. By speeding the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed Steelhead® products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Over 7,800 customers, across a wide range of markets, have implemented Riverbed WAN optimization solutions in their geographically dispersed organizations.
Riverbed WAN Optimization Solutions Enable IT Consolidation
As organizations become more involved with strategic IT initiatives such as virtualization, private cloud consolidation and cloud computing, they find that the same performance issues that impact a WAN environment challenge them in virtualized and cloud environments. With Riverbed WAN optimization, organizations can achieve the promised benefits of cloud environments, while ensuring the same high-performance access to applications and storage that they have come to expect in Riverbed-optimized WAN environments.
Riverbed enables additional IT consolidation opportunities by supporting branch office consolidation with the [ Riverbed Services Platform ] (RSP). The RSP allows customers to create a branch office box (BOB) that can run up to five additional services or applications virtually in a protected partition on the Steelhead appliance. This approach allows customers to deploy a customized library of local services in all of their branch offices, without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications. Riverbed has 14 qualified solutions on the RSP, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and solutions from McAfee, Inc., Websense, Inc., Check Point® Software Technologies, Qumu, Infoblox Inc., and OPNET Technologies, Inc.
"Consolidation of IT resources is a major initiative for global enterprises looking to reduce IT costs. Whether our customers are moving data to cloud environments or eliminating servers at branch offices, they can realize significant cost savings," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Riverbed. "Our customers rely on WAN optimization to overcome the performance barriers to successfully consolidate IT infrastructure into cloud environments and at the enterprise edge."
Whether an organization is focused on consolidating file servers, email servers, SAN or NAS devices, or remote tape backup libraries, Riverbed WAN optimization solutions will accelerate application performance, typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, over the WAN, and reduce WAN bandwidth utilization, typically by 60 to 95%.
Riverbed WAN Optimization Accelerates Disaster Recovery Initiatives
During Q1 2010, Riverbed introduced the [ Steelhead 7050 ] model appliance to meet the performance, reliability and flexibility requirements of large enterprises. The Steelhead 7050 more cost-effectively manages large-scale data center-to-data center replication, accelerates applications across many locations and users in an enterprise, and allows organizations to build large private cloud infrastructures. This model combines new levels of throughput and connection scalability with solid-state drives (SSD) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) connectivity.
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions have been verified by [ Brocade Communications Systems Inc. ] as compatible with the Brocade 7500/FR4-18i Blade, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program. In addition, Riverbed has partnerships with a variety of leading storage vendors, including Dell EqualLogic, Double-Take Software, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Symantec.
Most recently, Riverbed announced that as part of the EMC Select Program the company has been awarded the [ 2009 EMC® Partner Solution Award: Offering of the Year - Symmetrix®. ]
(1) Gartner, Inc., "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 1Q10" by Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, June 2010
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements about market share results that may suggest trends for our business, statements regarding performance results of Riverbed solutions and customer cost savings resulting from implementation of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, 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 (
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