SAN FRANCISCO – March 29, 2010 —Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced that Kamstrup, a Danish manufacturer of system solutions for energy metering, successfully deployed 17 Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances and the Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC) in 15 countries around the world. As a result of its Riverbed WAN optimization deployment, Kamstrup was able to consolidate its IT infrastructure and data backup systems into one location at its Denmark headquarters to build a private cloud and reduce costs without impacting its network performance.
 
Kamstrup is one of the world’s top manufacturers of solutions for metering utilities such as heat, electricity, tap water and natural gas. With its headquarters in Skanderborg, Denmark, Kamstrup employs over 700 employees in 15 global offices, ranging from Denmark, France, Germany, Russia and Spain to the Netherlands and United Arab Emirates, and is represented in 50 countries by use of local agents. To collaborate between geographically dispersed offices, Kamstrup employees most frequently rely upon Microsoft Exchange and CRM System as well as SharePoint.

Kamstrup had a vision to create a private cloud with one IT department located at its Denmark headquarters, but faced the challenge of whether consolidating its IT infrastructure and data backup systems would result in poor application performance for its employees who need to access data and files over its network. Kamstrup looked into potential bandwidth upgrades for its network, but found that this option would not only cost the company a lot of money, but would also not fully address the performance issues employees were having with accessing applications. After researching the options and learning about the benefits of WAN optimization, Kamstrup evaluated Riverbed and one of its competitors to see if Kamstrup’s goals could be met without incurring lost productivity and without having to make financial investments in additional IT infrastructure.

After thorough testing, Kamstrup discovered that the Riverbed Steelhead appliances would deliver the application acceleration it needed to support the consolidation of local servers to a private cloud. As Jesper Lasthein Hansen, IT manager at Kamstrup, explains, “Even though we removed many of our local servers, our application response times have significantly improved. In fact, the time it takes to download files and applications has improved by an average of 60%. In the end, we chose the Steelhead appliance over the competition for its ‘plug and play’ ease-of-use. Even a non-IT person has the capacity to set up these boxes.”

After deploying the Steelhead appliances throughout Europe and Asia, Kamstrup has seen exceptional application performance and bandwidth reduction, such as a seven times reduction in bandwidth utilization. Hansen says, “Our WAN optimization deployment has enabled us to postpone investments in network bandwidth. We have received a lot of positive feedback from employees working in remote locations who are benefiting from their applications running much faster over our network.”

In addition to Riverbed Steelhead appliances, Kamstrup also benefitted from the CMC, a management console that provides control over Steelhead appliance configurations and visibility into how applications are performing across the network. “With the CMC, we have been able to manage the remote appliances from one central location at headquarters,” says Hansen. “Using a convenient web-based interface, we’re able to deploy Steelhead appliances, configure, update and monitor them in real-time all in one place.” By moving from local backups to centralized backups in Sweden and Norway, Kamstrup has already saved nearly $15,000 in the first year.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements regarding performance results of Riverbed solutions and customer cost savings resulting from implementation of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, 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-K filed with the SEC on February 12, 2010.  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 IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.  

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About Kamstrup
Kamstrup is a high tech company and among the leading manufacturers of solutions for metering heat, cooling, electricity, tap water and natural gas. Solutions include hardware, software, operation and support within the area of metering, automatic data management (AMR/AMM), analysis and surveillance of energy consumption. Kamstrup serves energy and utility companies with long-term stable technology that enables simple and cost effective metering, collection and management of energy consumption data. Kamstrup is a global player with a strong international position and representations in more than 50 countries. Headquartered in Denmark, Kamstrup carries a highly skilled workforce of researchers and developers and a fully-automated production plant. Additional information about Kamstrup is available at www.kamstrup.com.

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