Riverbed Granite Named Infoworld Technology Of The Year
Groundbreaking Technology Enables Global Organisations to Radically Reduce Operational Burden on IT Managers While
Increasing Control at a Lower Cost
SAN FRANCISCO –Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced that it has been awarded IDG's InfoWorld 2013 Technology of the Year Award for the Riverbed® Granite™ appliance. InfoWorld recognised Riverbed for developing the groundbreaking technology that enables complete consolidation of
branch servers and storage while ensuring consistent performance for remote users. As a result, Granite appliances
radically reduce the operational burden on IT managers while massively increasing their control over the infrastructure
— all at a lower total cost of ownership.
“The unique capability of Granite to ‘vacuum up’ servers and storage from branch and remote offices so they can be
centrally controlled in the data centre is truly transformational and has been validated by a growing number of
customers and now this recognition by InfoWorld as Technology of the Year,” said John Martin, senior vice president,
product management at Riverbed. “Organisations love the ability to consolidate edge servers and data, get rid of remote
backup and improving data security by putting data in secure locations to remove risk. Granite helps customers do these
things while cutting costs, improving centralised management and reducing operational burden.”
Selected by InfoWorld Test Centre editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative
products on the IT landscape. Winners are drawn from all of the products tested during the past year, with the final
selections made by InfoWorld’s Test Centre staff. All products reviewed by the Test Centre are eligible to win.
In the review of Granite 1.0, product tester Keith Schultz stated that “with Granite, IT can collapse server resources
-- VMs and storage volumes -- back to the data centre while still providing server resources at the branch office. Setup
and configuration are minimal, and being able to pin and unpin volumes provides excellent flexibility. It's possible no
one ever dreamed of running VMs over the WAN, but now there is a solution -- and Granite is its name.”
Granite appliances extend the virtual edge of the data centre to the branch office, enabling complete consolidation of
edge servers and data. This new technology represents an architectural disruption that delivers the best of all worlds:
100% consolidated data and applications and local area network (LAN) performance at the edge over the WAN. Granite
appliances enable the provisioning of branch services and storage instantly for increased agility, high availability and
improved data protection. By eliminating data at the branch, organisations can also increase the security of data at the
edge.
“Many years ago we called these our Product of the Year Awards. But product just isn't the right word. Our Technology of
the Year Awards are not merely the best products in their class. These are the tools at the leading edge of technology
innovation -- the ones that are shaping the way we work and do business,” said Doug Dineley, Executive Editor/Test
Centre, InfoWorld.
Riverbed Steelhead appliances running RiOS 7.0 also won the InfoWorld Technology of the Year for Best WAN Accelerator.
More details can be found here: http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2013/press_021913a.php.
More than 22,000 organisations worldwide depend on Riverbed to understand, optimise and consolidate their IT
infrastructure, through solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever
increasing amounts of data. As IT organisations embark on strategic initiatives to virtualise, consolidate and migrate
workloads into cloud environments, users are moved farther from their data. Slow applications, slow file transfers and
inefficient websites can negatively impact the performance and success of these initiatives. Riverbed transforms IT
performance by providing solutions spanning WAN optimisation, edge-VSI, application-aware network performance
management, application performance management, application delivery controllers, web content optimisation (WCO), and
cloud data protection. By providing the broadest portfolio of performance solutions that deliver anywhere,
any-application optimisation, Riverbed enables organisations to increase productivity and efficiency, while enhancing
business resilience and controlling costs.
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About InfoWorld
InfoWorld is the leading resource for content and tools on "modernising enterprise IT." The InfoWorld Expert Contributor
Network provides a unique perspective in the market; our editors provide first-hand experience from testing, deploying,
and managing implementation of emerging enterprise technologies. InfoWorld's website (InfoWorld.com) and custom
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opportunities for IT vendors to reach this audience. InfoWorld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of
International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, events, and research company. Company information is
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for
Riverbed's products and services. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as
assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to
trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or
develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and
maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations
in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain;
our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events;
and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and
Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed’s business are set forth in
our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 15, 2013. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for
information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right
to modify future product plans at any time.
About Riverbed
Riverbed delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can
successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing,
and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to
understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT
architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ:
RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
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