Riverbed

1. 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.

   When organizations consolidate IT and move to cloud environments, the distance created between users and their data often results in high-latency and reduced bandwidth. Riverbed WAN optimization, network performance management, and cloud storage solutions enable enterprises to overcome these drawbacks. At Riverbed we make it easy to understand, optimize, and accelerate IT, so that organizations can build a fast, fluid, and dynamic IT architecture.

   Our award-winning line of WAN optimization solutions gives businesses an order-of-magnitude increase in the performance and value of their existing IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications. The applications we accelerate include file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, and ERP and CRM solutions.

   Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed, Virtual Steelhead, and Steelhead Mobile increase network throughput and application performance by up to 100 times. Riverbed Cascade® provides enterprise-wide network and application visibility and analysis for both enterprise customers and service providers. And Riverbed Whitewater® appliances revolutionize cloud storage through acceleration and optimization.

   Riverbed Technology at a Glance

   • Founded: 2002 
   • World Headquarters: San Francisco, California
   • Revenues: $551.09 M (2010)
   • Customers: More than 9,200 (including 76 percent of the Forbes Global 100)

   InfoWorld "Technology of the Year-WAN Accelerators" for five years running (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011) 

More about Riverbed

1. Solutions

   

   With Riverbed solutions customers can deliver transformed business capabilities to their globally connected enterprise. They can enhance their most critical IT initiatives, including Application Acceleration, Consolidation, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Visibility, Server & Desktop Virtualization, Video, and many more. Their IT infrastructure can perform like never before…

2. Products & Services

   

   Riverbed^® products improve your IT infrastructure, speed up application performance, and reduce bandwidth utilization. Riverbed Professional Services (RPS) is a global organization consisting of WAN optimization experts aligned with your business objectives to maximize your Riverbed investment.