Plans to Extend Existing Private Cloud Benefits of Market-Leading WAN Optimization to Applications and Storage in Public Clouds

[WESTLAKE, CAPE TOWN - 19 November 17, 2009] – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced its product direction for accelerating the cloud for enterprises and government. Building on its success in enabling organizations large and small to build private clouds, in 2010 Riverbed® will begin to introduce solutions that extend the benefits of acceleration to applications and storage in the public cloud. First among these will be virtual Steelhead® for the cloud, a new addition to Riverbed's award-winning WAN optimization product family. At its publicly Webcast cloud launch event in New York City, Riverbed demonstrated the benefits of its upcoming virtual appliance for the public cloud. In addition, Riverbed unveiled and demonstrated new technology for the acceleration of cloud storage. Participating in the event with Riverbed were Amazon, AT&T, BT, IBM, Orange Business Services and Riverbed customer Lantmännen.

Mobile Solution Complements Broader Steelhead Appliance Deployment and Speeds Enterprise IT Infrastructure Performance; Provides Acceleration for Windows 7 and 64-bit Systems

WESTLAKE, CAPE TOWN – November 05, 2009 – 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® Steelhead® 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.

Attributes its 2004-2008 Revenue Growth to High-Performance Culture, Technology Innovation and Customer Success

CAPE TOWN – October 27, 2009 – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that it ranked number 21 on Technology Fast 500™, Deloitte LLP’s ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth during the five year period from 2004 to 2008. Riverbed revenues grew from $2.562 million in 2004 to $333.349 million in 2008, an increase of 12,911 percent during this period.

Riverbed 6.0 Software Delivers More Speed for More Applications, Platforms and Private Clouds; Support for Citrix, Mac, Oracle, SharePoint and Others

WESTLAKE, CAPE TOWN – October 22, 2009 – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced the upcoming release of version 6.0 of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®), which powers Riverbed's award-winning WAN optimization solutions. With RiOS 6.0, Riverbed® continues to deliver industry-leading performance for the broadest range of applications and platforms being used in today's distributed IT and cloud infrastructure environments. Riverbed continues to enable organizations to support more users on more platforms, with RiOS 6.0 featuring new and improved support for Citrix XenApp, Mac clients, Oracle E-Business Suite 12 and many web applications, such as Microsoft SharePoint and SAP. In addition, Riverbed is building upon its lead in delivering solutions to enhance disaster recovery (DR) scalability with new features and higher performance for data center-to-data center replication. This enhanced version of Riverbed WAN optimization is the most comprehensive to date, providing organizations the best approach for their distributed IT and private cloud infrastructures.

Real-Time Categorization Significantly Increases Visibility Into Web 2.0 Traffic, Provides More Effective Enforcement of Acceptable Use Policies

CAPE TOWN, SA– October 9, 2009 – Cisco today launched Cisco® IronPort® Web Usage Controls, a next-generation acceptable-use product that offers real-time content categorization to accurately identify up to 90 percent of Dark Web sites in the most egregious content categories. Web 2.0 sites built on collaboration technologies with dynamic content and high churn are largely unknown to legacy URL-list-based solutions, creating a Dark Web that greatly increases the compliance, legal liability and productivity risks associated with Web traffic. Available as a software blade on the Cisco IronPort S-Series highly secure Web gateway, Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls includes a dynamic content analysis engine that works in tandem with Cisco's comprehensive URL-filtering database to deliver industry-leading efficacy and coverage across all content types. This combination improves the ability of organizations to manage how and when users can access the Web, eliminating risks associated with misuse, compliance violations and reduced productivity.