InfoStor : Riverbed, Digital Hands Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Robust Managed Services for WAN Acceleration-Enterprises Adopt Digital Hands' Managed Services and Riverbed for Significant Cost Reductions and Improved Service, July 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 22, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), and Digital Hands, a managed service provider specializing in remote management and monitoring services for technology infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership that will provide enterprise customers with robust managed services designed to optimize the performance and manage the life-cycle of the Riverbed(R) Steelhead(R) appliances, from pre-installation planning and implementation to tuning and proactive management.

Only Riverbed offers a complete WDS solution that accelerates applications and data for remote offices, data centers and mobile workers across wide area networks (WANs), accelerating access to applications and data up to 100 times faster. The speed delivered by Riverbed WDS solutions allows organizations to be more nimble, flexible, and competitive by enabling IT consolidation without sacrificing user performance, allowing higher productivity for remote offices, eliminating end user frustration caused by slow applications, dramatically shortening backup and replication times, reducing traffic on WANs, and even enabling mobile workers to be more productive.

Digital Hands' comprehensive managed services enhance the adoption of Riverbed WDS technology through rapid deployment and ongoing monitoring and management. Resource-constrained IT staffs can depend on Digital Hands to configure, deploy, and maintain the technology in a shorter period of time and with less costs than hiring additional staff. Enterprises that routinely outsource non-core functions or organizations with the need for temporary staff augmentation will benefit from flexible 24/7 managed services options.

"Unlike its competitors, Riverbed is exclusively focused on the acceleration of data and applications, results are easily demonstrated, and the 'wow factor' is evident during the first consultation with our customers. It has been a long time since we have seen a technology that has this magnitude of impact in such little time. We recognized that our customers could benefit from the increased end user productivity, decreased bandwidth consumption, and physical infrastructure consolidation that Riverbed enables," said Charlotte Baker, chief executive officer of Digital Hands.

"Digital Hands has a proven track record in managed services and we are delighted that they have developed specialized offerings unique to Riverbed. Digital Hands excels at managing enterprise networks as they become increasingly complex to support localized and global employees," said Randy Schirman, vice president of service provider sales, Riverbed. "Enterprises can outsource the entire deployment, monitoring and management, and resulting infrastructure consolidation projects to Digital Hands when the availability of in-house resources is limited or there is a need for the comprehensive 24/7 coverage of Digital Hands managed services."

About Digital Hands

Digital Hands is a global, outsourced IT Provider that specializes in call center help desk support, custom monitoring and maintenance of critical IT infrastructure, and special projects implementation. Additionally, Digital Hands serves businesses by facilitating rapid adoption for new technologies. With industry-leading performance statistics for problem solving response and resolution, Digital Hands is the go-to, North America-based service provider for WAN acceleration implementation and managed services. For more information, please visit http://www.digitalhands.com.

Steelhead Products

Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. 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-Q filed with the SEC on April 29, 2008. 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 Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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