Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology is a technology company that specializes in improving the performance of networks and networked applications. It was founded May 23, 2002 by Jerry Kennelly and Steve McCanne in San Francisco, California where its world headquarters remains. Riverbed's main product is the Steelhead Appliance, a networking appliance that combines several techniques to optimize data traffic and bandwidth utilization across a wide area network.

Riverbed products are deployed to solve network bandwidth and performance problems in the following areas of technology:

• Application acceleration - Applications that require access to resources across a WAN can run faster.
• Bandwidth optimization - The amount of traffic that runs across a WAN can be reduced, resulting in a decrease in network bandwidth requirements.
• Data center, branch office and server consolidation - The amount of computer and storage equipment required to support a branch office or remote location can be reduced through consolidation and virtualization.
• Data protection and Disaster Recovery - The time required to complete a backup cycle and to replicate that data offsite can be reduced, resulting in more data backed up in less time.
• Visibility and Network performance management - Network performance problems and anomalies can be automatically recognized so that problems on those networks can be identified, analyzed, and solved.
• Cloud Server and Storage Acceleration - Improve network performance into private and public clouds, enabling users to make better use of remote cloud-based computing and storage resources.