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Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced that the company has enhanced the capabilities of its Cloud Steelhead™ wide area network (WAN) optimization solution, adding compatibility with ESX-based public cloud services. Additionally, Riverbed® has extended the breadth of partnerships with cloud service providers for Cloud Steelhead, giving customers greater freedom of choice when choosing to migrate data and services to the public cloud.

Enterprises looking to move data and applications to the public cloud face performance challenges caused by latency and bandwidth constraints. To overcome these performance barriers, Cloud Steelhead provides the same market-leading performance that Riverbed customers have grown to expect to organizations looking to leverage the public cloud. Cloud Steelhead is designed to easily install and scale within public cloud service provider environments, improving performance for applications hosted within the cloud as well as accelerating data migration to the cloud. Customers using Cloud Steelhead have experienced up to 30X improvement in application performance and up to 98 percent data reduction.

"As our customers explore migrating business-critical IT services to the public cloud, they have turned to Riverbed to ensure that performance will not suffer," said Apurva Davé, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed. "Cloud Steelhead enables customers to get the most out of their investment in public cloud services, overcome the performance hurdles inherent in the cloud, and ensure that end users are able to access the data and applications they need to do business."

Enhanced Flexibility for Organizations Turning to The Cloud With the expansion of its cloud service provider ecosystem, Riverbed offers its customers greater flexibility in choosing cloud service providers. Cloud Steelhead now offers validated technical compatibility with a number of cloud service providers, including Terremark, ZettaServe and Xtium, as well as solution technology partners CloudSwitch and Media Platform. These companies join Amazon EC2 and VPC as part of the wide ecosystem of cloud services supported by Cloud Steelhead. Cloud Steelhead enables service providers to ensure enterprise-class performance for customers, enabling them to build differentiated service offerings for organizations looking to leverage the benefits of the cloud.

"Xtium has worked closely with Riverbed to provide a validated solution that gives customers high performance access to our secure, reliable and cost-effective on-demand cloud resources. Furthermore, Cloud Steelhead enables us to provide differentiated solutions to customers looking to realize the flexibility and cost benefits of the cloud without sacrificing end-user performance and productivity," said Tim Vogel, chief technical officer, Xtium.

Cloud Steelhead is the industry-leading cloud-intelligent WAN optimization solution, providing organizations with market-leading performance that was specifically engineered for use in cloud service provider environments. Additionally, Cloud Steelhead is easily installed and provides superior scale in order to help customers accelerate the migration of data to the cloud as well as improve performance for applications hosted within the cloud.

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 appliance-based 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, but 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 area network (LAN)-like" 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.

For additional information on Riverbed cloud solutions, please visit www.riverbed.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 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-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 technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

About Riverbed Riverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such 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 (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

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