Survey Highlights Concerns

SAN FRANCISCO -- Interop Las Vegas 2008 was the most appropriate industry event for Riverbed Technology (NasdaqGS:RVBD - News), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), to find out what's top of mind for its core audience -- IT and business decision-makers within the networking, storage and application markets. Riverbed surveyed hundreds of attendees over the three-day exhibition on their primary concerns with managing the IT infrastructure of increasingly dispersed organizations.

Visitors to the Riverbed booth were asked the following questions:

As branch offices and mobile workers play an increasingly critical role in business growth, IT struggles to keep up as these users demand fast application performance. When asked about the top two IT concerns being addressed at remote offices in the next 12 months, the performance of mission-critical applications was the key issue driving IT decisions, followed by data protection.

"The ability to deliver real-time access to critical applications enables a host of business benefits, including dramatically improved collaboration between distributed employees, improved productivity and happier, more satisfied employees," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president, marketing and business development at Riverbed. "However, as organizations consolidate their IT infrastructure to ensure data protection, application performance often suffers. The CIO's dilemma is reconciling these competing demands."

Riverbed Technology Inc.