SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/10/09
-- Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:
RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company
for networks, applications and storage, today
announced its participation at Interop New York 2009 taking
place November 16-20, 2009 at the Jacob Javits
Convention Center. Riverbed® industry expert
will lead conference discussions regarding IT
infrastructure and private cloud performance,
the impact of IT virtualization on applications
and networks and the competitive landscape of
WAN optimization solutions. Additionally, Emile
Rashkovich, chief information officer of
Riverbed customer Sentinel Real Estate
Corporation, will participate in the CIO Boot Camp to provide
strategies for surviving the current economic
environment. To provide additional insight on
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions and
benefits, Riverbed customers will present their
real-world cloud performance results at the
Riverbed booth during expo hours.
Interop provides a forum to discuss powerful
innovations and solutions the industry has to
offer. The conference includes in-depth
educational programs, workshops, real-world
demonstrations and live technology
implementations. Attendees can stop by the
Riverbed booth (#321) to learn how Riverbed IT
infrastructure performance solutions accelerate
application performance and data transfer for
remote offices, data centers and mobile workers.
Enterprises leverage Riverbed WAN optimization
products to improve remote and mobile employee
productivity, enable consolidation and private
clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and
application visibility, all while eliminating
the need to increase bandwidth, storage or
servers. Nearly 7,000 customers, across a wide
range of markets, have implemented Riverbed WAN
optimization solutions in their geographically
dispersed organizations.
Customers Share Riverbed WAN Optimization
Experiences
Within the Riverbed booth, attendees will
hear from customers, such as law firm Turner
Padget Graham & Laney P.A., who will discuss
its Riverbed WAN optimization solution
deployment.
Emile Rashkovich, chief information officer
of Sentinel Real Estate
Corporation, will participate in the CIO Boot Camp and will discuss
how Sentinel Real Estate Corporation deployed
150 Steelhead® appliances to support a US-wide
IT consolidation/private cloud effort. As a
result, Sentinel employees working in dispersed
offices are able to more efficiently collaborate
due to the dramatic improvements in application
performance. "Riverbed's pioneering WAN
optimization solutions are well established to
help enterprises in distributed environments
like ours," said Rashkovich. "Sentinel has
experienced dramatic performance gains and much
faster download times that not only helped
justify our consolidation initiative to our
c-suite but has also improved remote office
staff productivity and client satisfaction."
CIO Boot Camp: The Need for
Speed: How Sentinel is Driving Business Value
and Dramatic Improvements in Employee
Productivity
Who: Emile Rashkovich, senior vice president
and chief information officer, Sentinel Real
Estate Corporation
Apurva Davé, senior director, product
marketing, Riverbed
When: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
Where: Room 1E17
Why: Emile Rashkovich, senior vice president
and chief information officer at Riverbed
customer Sentinel Real Estate, will discuss the
consolidation of Sentinel's infrastructure into
a private cloud deployment across more than 150
offices in the United States. Sentinel
experienced a dramatic performance improvement
across a broad range of applications including
Yardi, a Web-based, real estate asset and
property management application used for
managing most of Sentinel's properties. The
presentation will provide details on how
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enabled the
company to avoid costly bandwidth upgrades and
cut its monthly communications bill in half
while Sentinel employees working in dispersed
offices are able to more efficiently collaborate
due to the dramatic improvements in application
and IT infrastructure performance.
Riverbed Drives Discussions on IT
Infrastructure and Cloud Performance
Conference keynotes and sessions will focus
on an integrated view of IT solutions that will
help increase productivity and profitability
while cutting costs and improving services. A
Riverbed executive will lead discussions at
several conference sessions:
Conference Session: A Comparison of
WAN Optimization Controllers
Who: Apurva Davé, senior director of product
marketing, Riverbed
When: Thursday, Nov. 19, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00
a.m.
Where: Room 1E07
What: The vast majority of enterprise users
work in branch offices or work remotely and
access applications over a relatively low-speed,
high-latency wide-area network (WAN). This use
of the WAN causes many applications to perform
badly. To mitigate the impact of the WAN on
application performance, many vendors have
developed a solution referred to as a WAN
Optimization Controller (WOC). In this
PowerPoint-free session, leading WOC vendors
will be asked questions to identify the
similarities and differences between their
products.
Conference Session: The Impact of IT
Virtualization on Applications and Networks
Who: Apurva Davé, senior director of product
marketing, Riverbed
When: Thursday, Nov. 19, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
Where: Room 1E07
What: Virtualization is not new. What is new
is the great interest in deploying server,
storage and desktop virtualization. While each
of these forms of virtualization can provide
significant business value, each has the
potential to significantly complicate the task
of ensuring acceptable application performance.
In this session, vendors from different areas of
IT will identify network technologies, designs
and best practices that enable IT organizations
to enjoy the benefits of virtualization without
enduring the potential pitfalls.
For more information about Riverbed
at Interop New York 2009, please visit our
electronic press kit at http://riverbedatinteropny.eventnewscenter.com/.
Forward Looking Statements
This 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 following implementation of Riverbed
solutions that may suggest likely or certain
outcomes, 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 October 30,
2009. 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 IT infrastructure
performance company. The Riverbed family of wide
area network (WAN) optimization solutions
liberates businesses from common IT constraints
by increasing application performance, enabling
consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide
network and application visibility -- all while
eliminating the need to increase bandwidth,
storage or servers. Thousands of companies with
distributed operations use Riverbed to make
their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive
and more responsive. Additional information
about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at http://www.riverbed.com/.
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