Riverbed Technology | Riverbed WAN Acceleration Solutions

Riverbed Technology

Riverbed - The Leader in WAN Acceleration

Overview

Riverbed is the pioneer and with over 3,000 customers, the worldwide technology and market share leader in WAN acceleration and wide area data services.

Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead appliances address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of applications that companies and knowledge workers rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. Further, with this technology any of these applications can be accelerated somewhere between 5 and 50, and even up to 100 times faster.

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.

Riverbed Technology's world headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.

Riverbed Technology - Awards

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for Best WAN Accelerator 2007, 2006, and 2005
Positioned in Gartner's Leader Quadrant in the WAN Optimization Controller Magic Quadrant 2007
Rated #1 by Forrester Research - The Forrester Wave: WAN Optimization Appliances, Q3 2007
eWeek Excellence Award for Networking Infrastructure 2006
Network Computing Well-Connected Award for Remote Office Network Infrastructure 2006
Byte and Switch Big Bytes Award for Best WAN Optimization Product 2006
eWeek Top Products of 2006; eWeek Top Five Storage Developments of the Year 2006
Computer Business Review 10 Most Influential Companies in Storage 2006
Network World All-Star Award for Riverbed Customer U.S. Department of Health and Human Services OIG, 2006
Network World Renovator Award for Riverbed Customer Psomas, 2005
The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2005

Riverbed Technology – Background

Riverbed is a publicly-held company (RVBD) based in San Francisco, CA. Riverbed has operations in every major country across the globe, including offices in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, India, and South Africa.

Riverbed Technology - Management

The company's executive management team is comprised of seasoned veterans with a rich combination of industry-specific knowledge, leadership expertise, and enterprise and startup experience, from companies including Inktomi, Cisco, EMC, Oracle, HP, and Fast Forward Networks.