Riverbed Provides Seamless Integration between Network Assessment and Acceleration with Enhanced Cascade Solution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) January 31, 2010 --

Dubai, UAE – January 31, 2010 – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, recently announced enhancements to Cascade, its advanced network and application performance analysis and visibility solution. The newest version, Cascade 8.4 provides enhanced reporting and integration with Riverbed WAN optimization that enable organizations to better assess, adapt and accelerate network performance. With Cascade 8.4, Riverbed allows enterprises to proactively monitor the end-user application experience in real-time. In addition, Cascade 8.4 integrates with Riverbed Steelhead appliances to measure performance within optimized environments.

As organizations delve into new IT initiatives such as virtualization, private cloud consolidation and cloud computing, they are increasingly realizing the need for more intelligent, business-level visibility solutions that enable them to proactively manage network and application performance. Cascade provides enterprise-wide application performance analysis, data on server and application dependencies, and the tools for IT managers to immediately determine bottlenecks for the delivery of applications across their infrastructure. The new features in Cascade 8.4 allow organizations to measure beyond network performance and availability, and determine the business impact any



drops in performance have on end-users. In addition, this release introduces Cascade Sensor-VE for the virtualized Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), enabling seamless
performance measurement in both optimized and non-optimized environments - without requiring expensive physical probes in every branch office.

“Early adopters of WAN optimization focused on acceleration—problems were acute and needed to be addressed quickly. For example, when an IT manager encountered latency and bandwidth challenges that stalled performance of a key application, he immediately selected a solution but didn’t necessarily develop an overall plan. Today, WAN optimization has evolved from being seen as a tactical implementation to providing a strategic view of the network,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “By integrating Cascade into optimized environments, Riverbed provides a tool for higher level business analytics, visibility and reporting. This gives the technical staff the information and language needed to communicate with C-level executives when providing an understanding of the network and campaigning for IT dollars. Cascade 8.4 provides organizations with performance information they can act on – not only at a technical level but at a business level.”

The new features in Cascade 8.4 will provide customers with a complete WAN optimization solution.

Proactively Monitor End-User Experience

Enhanced Application Performance Metrics
New Cascade metrics go beyond measuring the performance and availability of the network infrastructure, and ena