Riverbed Senior Executive Named 2011 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN

Riverbed Innovation, the IT performance company, today announced that Randy Schirman, vice president of worldwide channel sales, has been named a 2011 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN magazine. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers by consistently defending, promoting and executing effective channel partner programs and strategies.

"In 2010 we globalized and enhanced our channel offerings to better serve the varied needs of our channel partners," said Schirman. "Collectively, we but offer one of the industry's most comprehensive channel programs, supporting more than 1,600 partners with incentives, significant education, predictable and collaborative joint marketing and sales engagement, all in an 'easy-to-do-business-with' environment."

This year's Channel Chiefs were chosen by the Everything Channel editorial team on criteria including policy and program innovations made while the past year, the amount of revenue their company generates through partners, their willingness to speak out openly on behalf of the channel, and the number of years they have dedicated to channel activities.

The Riverbed Partner Network Program is a comprehensive program designed to provide growth and profitability for each type and size of Riverbed partner, including Large Account Resellers, Enterprise VARs and Small and Mid-sized Enterprises. It is a compelling platform for partners to drive their organization's growth by leveraging new lead generation, training and certification and sales incentive programs that drive success both for the partners and their clients.

More than 9,200 organizations worldwide, across a wide range of markets, depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Riverbed delivers hardware, software and virtualized solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data. Virtualization, consolidation and cloud computing promise huge cost savings and improved efficiencies, however as users move farther from their data, slow applications and file transfers can stall these strategic initiatives. Riverbed delivers to the remote office and mobile workers the same "local" performance, no matter where the private data center or public cloud may be. Riverbed continues building on its success in the WAN optimization and network application performance visibility markets with new and innovative solutions for accelerating cloud storage and access to applications and data deployed in the public cloud.

Forward Looking StatementsThis 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 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-K filed with the SEC on February 8, 2011. 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 research 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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