Riverbed’s WAN optimization solutions give businesses an order-of-magnitude increase in the performance of their existing infrastructure and mission-critical applications. They can increase network throughput and application performance by up to 100 times. Riverbed Cascade provides enterprise-wide network and application deep packet visibility and analysis.
Year Founded
2002
CEO
Jerry Kennelly, San Francisco Business Times Most Admired CEO
Customers
Cumulative customer count exceeded 5,500 at end of FY2008.
World’s largest global corporations and small companies with a couple of sites.
Industries include architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; finance and banking; legal; insurance and other professional services; government agencies
Revenue
$333 million in annual revenues fiscal 2008, an increase of 41% over previous year
Three-year growth 930%
Headquarters
San Francisco, California. Operations in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, India and South Africa.
Ownership
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: RVBD)
Employees
955 employees and thousands of partners worldwide
Service and Support
Technical support is available 24/7. Customer Support Web Site provides access to software releases, product documentation, knowledge base, tech notes, account information, trouble tickets.
Industry Recognition
InfoWorld Technology of the Year 2005-2009: Best WAN Accelerator
ZDNet’s 10 most influential biztech products of 2008
Leader in Gartner WAN Optimization Controller Magic Quadrant 2006-2008
Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star 2008
eWeek Excellence Award 2006 Network
Computing Well-Connected Award 2006
Byte & Switch Big Bytes Award 2006
Computer Business Review 10 Most Influential Companies in Storage 2006
Network World All-Star Award 2006 for Riverbed Customer HHS
Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2005
San Francisco, California. Operations in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, India and South Africa.
Ownership
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: RVBD)
Employees
955 employees and thousands of partners worldwide
Service and Support
Technical support is available 24/7. Customer Support Web Site provides access to software releases, product documentation, knowledge base, tech notes, account information, trouble tickets.
Industry Recognition
InfoWorld Technology of the Year 2005-2009: Best WAN Accelerator
ZDNet’s 10 most influential biztech products of 2008
Leader in Gartner WAN Optimization Controller Magic Quadrant 2006-2008
Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star 2008
eWeek Excellence Award 2006 Network
Computing Well-Connected Award 2006
Byte & Switch Big Bytes Award 2006
Computer Business Review 10 Most Influential Companies in Storage 2006
Network World All-Star Award 2006 for Riverbed Customer HHS
Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award 2005
Products
Steelhead appliances provide a robust WAN optimization capability to branch offices and data centers Steelheads can cut bandwidth usage by 60- 95%, accelerate applications by up to 100x, and enable DR operations within ever-shrinking recovery windows.
Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) virtualizes edge servers onto the appliance, eliminating hardware at branches.
Central Management Console (CMC) and Interceptor appliance help to manage and scale Steelhead appliance deployments.
Steelhead Mobile provides order-of-magnitude performance gains to an organization’s mobile workers, temporary offices, and very small offices through WAN optimization.
Cascade gives businesses an application-level view of their networks and servers. It uses network behavioral analysis to proactively alert managers to issues and helps them plan optimization and consolidation investments.
Environmental Initiatives
Riverbed requires suppliers to provide Certificates of Compliance in which they declare the absence of restricted materials in the products they supply to Riverbed.
Steelhead appliances provide a robust WAN optimization capability to branch offices and data centers Steelheads can cut bandwidth usage by 60- 95%, accelerate applications by up to 100x, and enable DR operations within ever-shrinking recovery windows.
Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) virtualizes edge servers onto the appliance, eliminating hardware at branches.
Central Management Console (CMC) and Interceptor appliance help to manage and scale Steelhead appliance deployments.
Steelhead Mobile provides order-of-magnitude performance gains to an organization’s mobile workers, temporary offices, and very small offices through WAN optimization.
Cascade gives businesses an application-level view of their networks and servers. It uses network behavioral analysis to proactively alert managers to issues and helps them plan optimization and consolidation investments.
Environmental Initiatives
Riverbed requires suppliers to provide Certificates of Compliance in which they declare the absence of restricted materials in the products they supply to Riverbed.