Riverbed to Participate at Autodesk University 2008

Riverbed Spokesperson to Discuss WAN Optimization on Industry Panel

SAN FRANCISCO, CA : Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services, today announced that it will participate at Autodesk University taking place December 2 - 5, 2008 at The Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. Attendees can visit Riverbed (booth #304) to learn how Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances offer designers and engineers the ability to collaborate across long distances as if they were in the same office, sharing enormous CAD files with ease. Additionally, a Riverbed spokesperson is participating in a panel discussion featuring competing WAN optimization vendors.

"For firms with distributed offices or a global presence, sharing and collaborating on large CAD documents can often lead to significant delays in accessing drawings during normal file open and save operations," said Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing and alliances. "Many firms estimate that design engineers can spend one-quarter to one full hour a day on remote file operations, dramatically reducing the available working time per person. These delays impact productivity and overall time-to-market for customers, and, ultimately, delivery to the client."

When using the Riverbed WAN optimization solution, enterprises using Autodesk applications can experience up to 100X increased application acceleration and bandwidth utilization reduction by up to 98%. Whether users exchange CAD files via FTP, email, or through a remote-file shares, Steelhead appliances can considerably improve the speed with which those files move over a WAN. To learn more about Riverbed solutions and how they compare to alternatives, conference-goers can attend the industry panel discussion moderated by IT Director/CAD Manager for Wright-Pierce and Riverbed customer Ray Sirois:

What: Panel Discussion: "Wide Area Solutions Shoot Out"
When: Friday, December 5, 2008 at 10:15 a.m.
Who: Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing and alliances at Riverbed joined by vendors with competing WAN optimization alternatives

In addition, attendees can visit Riverbed in the exhibition hall:

What: Riverbed Exhibiting at Autodesk University
When: Tuesday, December 2: 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 3: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.,
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 4: 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Where: The Venetian Resort Hotel
Las Vegas, NV

Booth #304

Steelhead Products

Riverbed 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 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.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services 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.

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