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RIVERBED INTEGRATES CLOUD-READY STINGRAY TRAFFIC MANAGER SOFTWARE WITH VMWARE VFABRIC™ APPLICATION DIRECTOR™ Solution Integration Combines Acceleration and Automation Capabilities; Enables Customers to Provision and Scale High-Performing Applications Faster in the Cloud SAN FRANCISCO—August 27, 2012—Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the performance company, today announced the integration of Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager, its software and virtual application delivery controller (ADC), with VMware® vFabric™ Application Director™, a hybrid cloud application provisioning solution. This solution combines Stingray Traffic Manager software application acceleration capability with VMware vFabric Application Director automation to allow customers to create application blueprints that can be used to provision and scale multi-tier applications, faster and smarter in a hybrid cloud environment. These application blueprints can use application delivery features of Stingray Traffic Manager software for a higher level of application portability across cloud services and repeatable deployments of selected applications with standard deployment settings. Application development and portability are evolving and can become more complex as companies continue to move to the cloud. The need for real-time updates of application functionality changes frequently in scale, and user demand for constant availability and reliability place new pressure on application architects. These challenges are time consuming and can be costly for an enterprise deploying and updating its applications in the cloud. Stingray Traffic Manager software provides enterprises with a solution to accelerate, automate, provision, and scale their clouds cost effectively. "Though cloud computing provides enterprises with many benefits, the need to instantly meet user demands can prove challenging for application architects," said Rohit Mehra, director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure at IDC. "Solutions for these challenges must match the nature of the cloud itself - they must be innovative and flexible. The merging of acceleration and automation capabilities is invaluable for organizations seeking to quickly and cost-efficiently deploy and provide high-performing applications." VMware vFabric™ Application Director, a cloud application provisioning solution for hybrid clouds, simplifies creating application deployment topologies that are truly portable across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments through the use of application deployment blueprints. With the integration of Stingray Traffic Manager software with vFabric Application Director, application architects within IT organizations can now easily-with a drag and drop interface-choose to accelerate and load balance their enterprise applications in the cloud. The solution is available on VMware Cloud Application Management Marketplacebeta. The marketplace allows VMware partners, customers, and end user communities to develop and publish application blueprints that are truly portable across clouds. This gives application and infrastructure teams the flexibility, freedom of choice and a collaborative environment for implementing a forward looking IT strategy for cloud application delivery into cloud. "VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ is a cloud-ready solution that delivers deployment efficiency and agility, accelerates time to market, reduces costs, and leverages existing investments," said Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Management at VMware. "With cloud environments becoming more pervasive, customers must have flexible, easy-to-use solutions that can be quickly integrated into highly dynamic virtual and cloud infrastructures. The integration of Stingray Traffic Manager software with vFabric Application Director fits with our solution to accelerate, automate, and scale applications in the cloud." Riverbed will also leverage other product vendors in VMware's Cloud Applications Management Marketplacebeta to expand the solution. The first collaboration is with Zend, a provider of software and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications in the cloud. This collaboration has yielded a blueprint for Magento E-Commerce store on a clustered high availability Zend server fronted by Riverbed. Customers who need high performing PHP applications in the cloud would be able to use new blueprints by Riverbed and Zend that can save them significant application development time and resources. Designed for the cloud, the Riverbed ADC solution is a comprehensive layer seven software ADC that can be deployed seamlessly in private, public, and hybrid clouds. Stingray Traffic Manager software offers simple scripting, easy user interface-based configuration management, and robust application programming interface (APIs) that enable the solution to be managed as an application and provisioned like a service. This makes it better suited than a hardware load balancer to accelerate multi-tier applications in a virtual or cloud environment. "As applications move to the cloud and become more dynamic, performance solutions must keep pace with how they are changing," said Apurva Davé, vice president of products, Stingray Business Unit at Riverbed. "The Stingray Traffic Manager software was designed with the cloud in mind, and its ability to accelerate applications is unrivaled. Riverbed and VMware have a longstanding history that enables better-performing IT for enterprises. Integrating Stingray Traffic Manager software and vFabric Application Director™ is an important progression for application architects and enterprises operating in the cloud, as this collaboration will enable faster and easier deployments of highly-optimized applications." Riverbed will demonstrate the Stingray Traffic Manager software and VMware vFabric Application Director integration at VMworld® 2012, taking place August 26-30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. Conference goers can visit Riverbed at booth #723. Additional Resources Riverbed-VMware Partnership Stingray Traffic Manager service on VMware Cloud Application Management Marketplacebeta Reference Java application blueprint fronted by Stingray Traffic Manager Facebook LinkedIn Riverbed Blog Riverbed Community Twitter (@Riverbed) YouTube 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-Q filed with the SEC on July 27, 2012. 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. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners. VMware, VMworld and VMware vFabric Application Director are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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Riverbed’s New Cascade Pilot takes Wireshark to a New DPI Level

By David Mackey

You’re going to want to evaluate this amazing time saver. Last week I was visiting a customer as a follow up to a Riverbed Steelhead installation we had implemented on his network weeks before. He showed me reports that revealed a 40% reduction in bandwidth usage worldwide and a marked improvement in the delivery of their ERP application to offices in Europe and Asia. I knew my friend had been a consistent user of Wireshark for troubleshooting performance complaints and bottlenecks on the WAN. He was vaguely aware that Riverbed had acquired one of the popular packet capture analysis tools and I told him I was curious to see how the new Cascade Pilot would function in an authentic enterprise network. "Good timing," he said. "I just ran a trace for a recurring slowdown the London branch has been grouchy about. Unfortunately it's a pretty big file, five gigs, unfiltered. I hope you have some time to wait." We downloaded a thirty-day trial of Riverbed’s Cascade Pilot software. We were both blown away when Pilot pulled the big file in less than ten seconds. "This could limit my coffee breaks," my buddy said. Once the trace file was imported, we applied the Bandwidth over Time graph. It clearly showed a spike in network throughput and the exact time the spike occurred. We highlighted the spike and applied the network usage graph. This permitted us to drill into that spike and see what applications were consuming the bandwidth when it happened. The majority of the traffic was HTTP so we applied the web objects report to that same spike and sorted the results by maximum server time. Viewing the duration of each web object, my friend selected the slowest object and exported just the packets involved in loading that object to Wireshark for DPI and decoding. Wireshark filtered that one web object out of the millions of packets in this trace file in about 3 seconds. "I knew it wasn’t the network," my buddy said. "This could be a HUGE time saver. I wonder if it works in real time." It does. And it does it especially well with Riverbed's high performance Cascade Shark packet capture appliances with multi-gigabyte distributed analysis that eliminates the need to export large trace files across the network to be analyzed locally. Cascade Shark can increase the breadth and depth of my customer's analysis with no packet drops and deliver faster and better alerts. You’ve got to see this thing. Evaluate it for thirty days.

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Riverbed: To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade

By Steve Evans

Riverbed is always adding new features. Given their position in the magic “squares”, I’d expect them to be leading innovation. But with such frequent upgrades, do you upgrade or not?

The new RiOS 6.1 has some stellar features that one could very well take advantage of. And that really is the answer. Can you take advantage of the new features?

If not, maybe you should wait. Riverbed maintains several “strains” of code so you should never be compelled to upgrade to a new major version just to stay current. Your current major version is also being kept up to date with bug fixes and minor enhancements. There are recent updates to most major versions including 6.1, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, and 4.1.

I’ve had a Riverbed engineer recommend upgrading to the latest 6.1. But I prefer the more conservative route of upgrading to the latest code in the current release. Don't change unless you are looking to gain access to features of a new major version.

Riverbed published a document enumerating the new features for 6.1. It might help you decide if you would like to jump up to one of the newer versions. If you're not interested in taking advantage of any of these new features, I recommend the latest RiOS version at your major release level.

How about those engineering releases? Are those safe? Unlike the “Official Release” versions, the engineering releases have not yet undergone extensive Q&A, but usually are worth it due to the bug fixes they provide.

In my many conversations with Riverbed engineers, I’m always encouraged to upgrade to the latest engineering release if it's available. I’ve never yet had a problem upgrading to the latest engineering release code. If you do have an issue, don’t forget that the Riverbed allows you to easily boot back into the previous version.

So what’s the verdict? Upgrade or not? The answer is “Yes!” Decide if you need the new features of a major version upgrade, and if not, upgrade to the latest code in your current track. And as always, backup your configuration before an upgrade and read the release note!

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