SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry’s leading enterprise IT magazines, named Riverbed’s Steelhead® appliance to its list of “Top Five Storage Developments of the Year” and as a “Top Product of 2006.” Riverbed® was previously named winner of eWEEK’s Excellence Award in the category of Network Infrastructure. Victor Loh, technology analyst with eWEEK Labs notes that Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances hit all the marks of a best-in-class WAN optimization product, offering leading edge bandwidth optimization through highly intelligent data caching, TCP optimization and other protocol-specific enhancements. To view the stories, visit eWEEK Labs Picks the Top Products of 2006 and eWEEK Labs: Victor Loh’s Top Five Storage Developments of the Year.
Riverbed adds this recognition to its list of many awards garnered over the past year, validating Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances as the industry’s leading WDS solution. In addition to being named as one of the top five storage developments of the year and as a top product of 2006, Riverbed has also been recognized by many of the leading technology publications for other innovations, including:
Byte and Switch, Big Bytes Award — Best WAN Optimization Solution
eWEEK Excellence Award — Network Infrastructure
InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Award — Best WAN Accelerator
Network Computing Well Connected Award — Remote Office Network Infrastructure
“The power and simplicity of our Steelhead appliances is no accident,” said Eric Wolford, senior vice president, marketing and business development. “From day one, we designed our products to address the business challenges created by today’s globally distributed workforce and virtual value chain business models. We continue to rely on our global customer base to guide our development team and inform our roadmap. This recognition by eWEEK is an acknowledgement of the work we’ve done to create an integrated and intelligent solution to the networking, application, and storage issues that together slow the performance of distributed networks and cause globally distributed knowledge workers to suffer painfully slow application and file transfer speeds.”
In addition, Riverbed was recently positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controller [WOC], 2006”1 published in October 2006 and authored by Andy Rolfe and Joe Skorupa. See the full report at www.riverbed.com/gartner.
About Riverbed’s Steelhead Appliances
Riverbed’s wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites, by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices, Riverbed’s award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances 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.
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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the “Risk Factors” section in our final Prospectus dated September 20, 2006, and in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 31, 2006. 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.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) 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 (Nasdaq:RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 4, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors place in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Ziff Davis Media Inc.
Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company serving the technology and videogame markets. The Company is an information services provider of technology media including publications, websites, conferences, events, eSeminars, eNewsletters, custom publishing, list rentals, research and market intelligence. In the United States, the Company publishes 7 magazines including PC Magazine, eWEEK, CIO Insight, Baseline, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World and Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. The Company exports the power of its brands internationally, with publications in 48 countries and 19 languages. Ziff Davis leverages its content on the Internet with a network of highly-targeted technology and gaming sites including PCMag.com, eWEEK.com, ExtremeTech.com and 1UP.com. The Company also produces highly-targeted b-to-b and consumer technology events including DigitalLife. With its main headquarters and PC Magazine Labs based in New York, Ziff Davis Media also has offices and lab facilities in the San Francisco and Boston markets. Additional information is available at www.ziffdavis.com.
1 Gartner Research “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2006,” by Andy Rolfe and Joe Skorupa. October 4, 2006
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