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Riverbed Announces Steelhead Mobile 3.0
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nov 02, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure
performance company for networks, applications and storage, today
announced upcoming enhancements to its Mobile WAN optimization
solution to address the productivity challenges global organizations
face when managing remote and mobile workforces. Riverbed(R)
Steelhead(R) Mobile increases employee productivity while on the
road, working from home or connected wirelessly in the office by
providing application performance improvements. With this release,
Riverbed will provide acceleration for Windows 7 and 64-bit systems
for mobile end users. In addition, organizations will be able to take
advantage of improved flexibility and simplified management
functionality to provide mobile workers with accelerated performance
no matter where they are working throughout the world.
"As companies focus on consolidating their data through private cloud
initiatives, the distance between their employees and critical data
is growing -- employees are becoming more mobile, working from a
variety of locations outside of the office. This means that as
centralization of data and IT infrastructure continues, remote access
is becoming more of a challenge," said Eric Wolford, senior vice
president of marketing and business development at Riverbed. "With
Steelhead Mobile 3.0, we are able to deliver to customers a solution
that not only accelerates important Windows 7 and 64-bit applications
while on the road, but also complements their broader Steelhead
appliance deployment."
"Riverbed's leadership in the WAN optimization market can be
attributed to product innovation and focus on creating a
comprehensive WAN optimization solution. The company has maintained a
focus on customer priorities and ever-changing IT requirements," said
Cindy Borovick, research vice president at IDC. "Enterprise IT
departments are being pressed to improve IT efficiency and employee
productivity with a reduced IT budget. As more companies move forward
with IT consolidation projects to cut costs, performance for end
users is a concern. Mobile WAN optimization can help overcome this
challenge by improving the performance of critical enterprise
applications for remote and mobile workers."
Steelhead Mobile 3.0 introduces enhancements that allow organizations
to provide their mobile workers with better access and performance,
eliminating slow performance as a barrier to mobility.
Accelerate Windows 7 and 64-bit Systems for Mobile Users
Riverbed continues to deepen its optimization of Windows and other
Microsoft applications, such as SharePoint, Office, Server and CRM,
so that enterprises can provide accelerated access to and improved
performance of Microsoft applications to remote and mobile workers.
With Steelhead Mobile 3.0, Riverbed provides acceleration benefits to
Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.
Organizations will have the ability to support Microsoft's catalog of
modern operating systems and advanced platforms. Through Riverbed's
comprehensive solution, companies will have the flexibility to
upgrade operating systems or migrate to platforms while obtaining
consistent application performance.
Web Applications -- Up to 60X Faster
Enterprises are utilizing HTTP and HTTPS for everything from
e-commerce to mission-critical applications. They are the underlying
protocols for all Web-based applications used to communicate
internally with employees and externally with partners and customers.
By optimizing these protocols, users can dramatically reduce the
amount of data that they need to send over the WAN, while at the same
time streamlining the chatty behavior of transport and application
protocols. With Mobile 3.0, as with the Steelhead appliances, these
benefits are extended further to the application layer for HTTP and
HTTPS users to make Web applications even faster while maintaining
the preferred enterprise trust model. The common architecture of the
Steelhead appliance and Steelhead Mobile gives organizations a single
comprehensive solution to increase the performance of key Web-based
applications.
By employing URL learning, page parsing, embedded object pre-fetching
and metadata acceleration modes, Steelhead Mobile further reduces the
chattiness and delays that plague enterprise Web-based applications.
With these additional tools, business-critical applications used today
such as SharePoint, intranet portals and Web-based document
management systems, as well as Web-enabled ERP and CRM applications
like SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards and Siebel, all receive application
acceleration of up to 60x.
Branch Warming -- Immediate Acceleration Regardless of Location
Riverbed has extended its technological leadership by improving
integration with the Steelhead appliance, allowing workers to take
advantage of even more of the benefits of the Riverbed Optimization
System (RiOS(R)) while working remotely.
With Steelhead Mobile 3.0, Riverbed introduces Branch Warming, which
allows mobile and branch office users to share optimized data and
experience even greater overall acceleration. By sharing the data
references between the data stores of the Steelhead Mobile client and
the branch office Steelhead appliance, mobile workers not only take
advantage of all of the optimization benefits of the Steelhead
appliance but are also able to contribute data references from their
data store to help improve performance for the entire branch office,
enabling "warm" performance regardless of location.
Dancker, Sellew & Douglas has approximately 40 users that have
benefited from the acceleration capabilities of Steelhead Mobile for
the past two years. "With Mobile 3.0 we are experiencing the same
stellar acceleration that our team has grown accustomed to -- for
example, I have a user working in a remote office in East Syracuse
that is experiencing 67% data reduction and 3X performance gains,"
said Michael Vassallo, Senior Network Administrator. "We've found
that the new Branch Warming feature helps our users switch seamlessly
from working wirelessly to connecting back to a branch office with a
Steelhead appliance. It greatly improves efficiency."
Steelhead Mobile 3.0 is expected to be generally available on
December 2, 2009.
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, including Steelhead Mobile 3.0, 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 October 30, 2009. 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 Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The
Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions
liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing
application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing
enterprise-wide network and application visibility -- all while
eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers.
Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to
make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more
responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is
available at www.riverbed.com.
Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, Think
Fast, the Riverbed logo, Mazu, Profiler and Cascade are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other
trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective
owners.
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