Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company for networks, applications, and storage.

Riverbed® provides the only comprehensive WAN optimization solutions to a host of problems that prevent enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide-area networks anywhere in the world.

Our award-winning line of WAN optimization solutions gives businesses an order-of-magnitude increase in the performance and value of their existing IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications. The applications we accelerate include file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, and ERP and CRM solutions.

Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed and Steelhead Mobile increase network throughput and application performance by up to 100 times. Riverbed Cascade® provides enterprise-wide network and application visibility and analysis for both enterprise customers and service providers.

Thousands of widely distributed businesses — in virtually every country and vertical market — use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructures faster, less expensive, and more responsive.

Our WAN Optimization solutions are available anywhere in the world through certified resellers in the Riverbed Partner Network, from Riverbed OEM partners, and directly from Riverbed.

Riverbed Technology at a Glance

• Founded: 2002 
• World Headquarters: San Francisco, California
• Revenues: $551.09 M (2010)
• Customers: More than 9,200 (including 76 percent of the Forbes Global 100)
• InfoWorld “Technology of the Year-WAN Accelerators” for five years running (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011)