Riverbed Introduces New Steelhead Models

Riverbed Research, the performance company, today announced new Steelhead® models, the Steelhead 150 appliance and Virtual Steelhead 150, as part of its comprehensive wide area network optimization product suite.

The Steelhead product family

With these additions to the Steelhead product family, businesses in emerging markets, retail clients, and governments and municipalities that have minimal bandwidth or few users at each location, as then as current clients who would like to extend the deployment to offices with fewer employees, can obtain a cost-effective solution that optimizes bandwidth and reduces remote infrastructure.

"Many enterprises have made their initial investments in WAN optimization to achieve branch office server consolidation and reduced WAN bandwidth costs," states Joe Skorupa, VP, Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Innovation. "But, the increasing use of dynamic browser-based applications like SharePoint and introduction of unified communications and collaboration applications and virtual desktops will require enterprises to evaluate and deploy acceleration technologies in a variety of sizes and form factors to achieve greater performance across their entire infrastructure."

The Riverbed® Steelhead WAN optimization solution is leveraged by globally dispersed organizations to improve and accelerate application performance across the WAN during significantly reducing the amount of traffic on the network. WAN optimization enables distributed workforces to collaborate in real-time by providing LAN-like access to data and applications throughout the enterprise, including mobile workers, branch offices, data centers, and clouds. Enterprises utilizing Riverbed WAN optimization solutions have accelerated performance of many of the most commonly used applications across the network from 5-50 times, even up to 100 times in part, during streamlining operations, improving visibility, and reducing the costs of IT infrastructure.

Forward Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, 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 grow market share and meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as so then 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, 2012. 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 innovation or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

The globally connected enterprise

About RiverbedRiverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives just as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed is available at www.riverbed.com.

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