SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 10/07/08 --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the
technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today
announced its participation at the Fall 2008 Telework Exchange Town Hall
Meeting taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on
October 15, 2008. The Telework Exchange will address how government
professionals can take telework to the next level and how technology
enables telework adoption. With Riverbed® Steelhead® Mobile client
software, many file downloads that once took mobile or remote workers an
hour or more can be completed in minutes or seconds, resulting in increased
employee efficiency and collaboration.
The number of mobile workers within the government sector is expected to
increase as a result of the proposed House Telework Enhancement Act of
2008, which requires all US Federal agencies to mandate that all eligible
employees have the ability to telework for a minimum of 20 percent of their
work week. The Steelhead Mobile software client is intended to deliver
LAN-like application performance and productivity to any employee, whether
on the road, working from home or connected wirelessly in the office. In
addition to accelerating application performance, Steelhead Mobile often
reduces bandwidth requirements. Riverbed has performed rigorous
compatibility testing of Steelhead Mobile with many of the most frequently
used software applications. The Steelhead Mobile software is easy to
install and manage and can be set up to be transparent to the user and the
network.
Riverbed's participation at the Town Hall Meeting is a byproduct of the
strong interest in and adoption of its solutions within the federal market.
Riverbed works with many government organizations, ranging from one of the
world's largest Navies that was able to achieve "near-terrestrial"
performance of its key Web applications on all of its ships, to the U.S.
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). Over 40 government
organizations are successfully leveraging Riverbed WDS solutions to enable
consolidation of global IT assets, speed data transfer for mobile field
operations units, slash backup and data replication times by up to 90
percent, and/or reduce bandwidth costs and utilization.
Who: Riverbed Technology
What: Exhibiting at Fall 2008 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting
When: October 15, 2008
Where: Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, DC
To learn more about the performance of WDS and Steelhead Mobile, visit
www.riverbed.com.
Steelhead Products
Riverbed WDS solutions enable 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 data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times
and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning Steelhead WDS
products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication
processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and
collaboration. Steelhead products 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. To
learn more, view Riverbed's demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.
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 Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 29, 2008.
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 technology and market 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.
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