Riverbed, Digital Hands Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Robust Managed Services for WAN Acceleration

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
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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