Riverbed recognised as a 'Leader' in Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization

Issued by Red Ribbon Communications for Riverbed Technology
Johannesburg, 26 Mar 2015

Karl Campbell, Regional Vice-President of UK and South Africa at Riverbed

Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, today announced that Gartner has positioned Riverbed SteelHead as a "Leader" in its 2015 "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization", marking Riverbed's eighth consecutive year in the "Leader" position.

The entire Gartner report can be viewed here. Riverbed is also named a "Leader" in Gartner's 10 February 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, and a "Visionary" in Gartner's 28 October 2014 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.

"Riverbed is honoured by Gartner's continued recognition of SteelHead's leadership for WAN optimisation, and we take great pride at having sustained this position for eight consecutive years," said Karl Campbell, Regional Vice-President of UK and South Africa at Riverbed. "We continue to innovate, and by adding end-to-end visibility and control to our longstanding optimisation capabilities, Riverbed is delivering the most complete solution for superior application performance for today's hybrid enterprise - for any app - on-premises or in the cloud."

According to Gartner: "Because enterprises continue to demand improved performance of their applications, WAN optimisation solutions keep evolving with improved and increasingly granular application optimisation and visibility capabilities. The development of the application acceleration market has been driven by customer demand for highly integrated solutions that employ a wide range of techniques to optimise network and application performance and end-user experience and that offer scalability and fault tolerance."[1]

Riverbed SteelHead and the Riverbed Application Performance Platform

Riverbed SteelHead is the industry's number one optimisation solution for accelerated delivery of all applications across the hybrid enterprise. SteelHead provides increased visibility into application performance and end-user experience, and the ability to ensure business performance SLAs through an application-aware approach to hybrid networking based on centralised business intent-based policies.

SteelHead is a key part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform, which gives CIOs unparalleled visibility to deliver, control, and optimise all IT resources across the hybrid enterprise.

Riverbed

Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in application performance infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximising employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbed's 26 000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.

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[1] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization, Bjarne Munch, Neil Rickard, 17 March 2015

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Riverbed recognised as a 'Leader' in Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization

Marks eight years running in the Leaders' Quadrant.