Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Riverbed Announces Systems Integration Agreement With HP

Agreement Aligns Riverbeds Value to HP Network Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced an agreement to make its WDS solutions available worldwide as part of the HP portfolio of networking services. The terms of the agreement enable Riverbeds complete family of WDS solutions, including its Steelhead® appliance and Interceptor product lines, to be integrated with HP networking services.

Riverbed can now access HPs broad market reach, technical competence and strong customer loyalty to extend the value proposition we provide to customers, said Dave Peranich, senior vice president, worldwide sales at Riverbed®. Strengthening our companies existing relationship, this agreement builds a foundation for faster time-to-market with the integrated solutions.

Riverbeds wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable distributed 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 distributed sites by five to 50 times, and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbeds 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. To learn more, view Riverbeds demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.

Riverbeds Steelhead appliances complement HPs branch office consolidation and data center replication solutions, said Brian Brouilette, vice president, technology services mission critical, networking and education services at HP. As a result of this agreement, HP customers can get complete network design, implementation, and support services for their Riverbed products.

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