SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 9, 2011) - Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced that it has been awarded the Tech and Innovation Award for best application among large companies in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. Earlier this year, Riverbed® also was named as one of the Best Places to Work by the San Francisco Business Times and its sister publication the San Jose Business Journal.

The "Tech and Innovation Awards" recognizes dynamic, innovative entrepreneurs, executives and companies driving the Bay Area's thriving technology sector. An independent panel of judges selected 25 finalists from 300 nominations based on corporate growth and execution strategy, business application and customer benefits, and the innovative and differentiating capabilities of their products and services. The best business application among large companies category recognizes the most innovative and insightful business application by a large technology company with revenues of more than $100 million. The award recognized companies in 12 different categories based on market focus, company size and annual revenues.

"This award is recognition of our success in delivering IT performance solutions that have become the foundation for the next generation of IT," said Eric Wolford, executive vice president of marketing and business development at Riverbed. "Through hard work and innovation, we are solving some of the toughest problems faced by today's globally distributed organizations. We help organizations build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns with their business needs and is flexible for the future."

More than 13,000 organizations worldwide, across a wide range of markets, depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Riverbed delivers hardware, software 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 performance management (NPM) markets with new and innovative solutions for accelerating cloud storage and access to applications and data deployed in public, private and hybrid clouds.

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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