OMV Accelerates Smoothly With Riverbed

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance
company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that OMV,
one of Europe's leading oil and gas companies, has deployed Riverbed(R)
Steelhead(R) appliances and Steelhead Mobile client software across its
Australian and New Zealand operations. The Steelhead products have
dramatically accelerated application performance across the WAN between
OMV offices in Australia, New Zealand and at one offshore rig contracted
by OMV in the Taranaki Basin. Employees have experienced application
performance improvements by up to a factor of 10x across the region.

OMV has approximately 150 employees and contractors based in Australia and
New Zealand. When the organisation embarked on a New Zealand-based oil
field development project in 2008, it faced a number of challenges posed
by the geographical distance between sites.

Peter Zuzula, IT manager, OMV Australia, says a strategy to share
resources meant staff in Perth, Australia and Wellington and New
Plymouth, New Zealand were all involved in the new oil field development
project, together with employees on an offshore drilling location.
Reliable, high-performance communications between team members was
considered critical to the success of the project. However, because the
development project was scheduled to last only 12 months, OMV did not
want to relocate staff for this project.

"Users require a certain level of service from their IT infrastructure,
even when they are in remote locations. Prior to our deployment of the
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions, employees were complaining and the
business was suffering from slow-performing applications," explains
Zuzula. "Since we installed the Steelhead appliances, that problem has
been eliminated. Calls to our IT group from irate users complaining about
slow systems have stopped."

Working with Riverbed and the Perth-based systems integrator Expanse IT,
OMV deployed the Riverbed Steelhead 2020 and Riverbed Steelhead Mobile
Controller (SMC) at its Perth office; another Riverbed Steelhead 2020 at
the Wellington branch; a Riverbed Steelhead 520 in New Plymouth; and
Riverbed Steelhead Mobile client software at the offshore oil rig in the
Taranaki Basin.

Zuzula says he had excellent support throughout an uncomplicated
deployment process. Systems integrator Expanse IT contributed
significantly to the success of this project. Expanse IT reviewed OMV's
existing WAN infrastructure, designed the appropriate Riverbed solution
and deployed the Steelhead appliances, Steelhead Mobile Controller and
Steelhead Mobile client software in a matter of days. No disruption to
production IT services was required.

Accelerating Applications for the Mobile Workforce

While the initial use of the Riverbed Steelhead Mobile client software was
limited to those users based on OMV's offshore rig in the Taranaki Basin,
many more OMV employees across Australia and New Zealand are now using
Steelhead Mobile to work faster from home.

"The initial driver was to improve IT systems performance for those users
based on the oil rig, but I could immediately see the possibilities for
mobile workers as well," Zuzula says. "Working from home can sometimes be
quite painful but Steelhead Mobile gives us a huge performance boost; this
dramatically increases user productivity."

Zuzula says that the acceleration of OMV's Outlook and File Sharing
applications by, on average, eight times, has enabled the company to
achieve a positive return on its investment (ROI) in just six months.

"Because we employ a number of contractors, it's important they can work
as productively as possible -- otherwise the company is losing money," he
explains. "Getting back our initial investment within six months is a
simply incredible result for any IT project."

"If every large IT project went as smoothly as this implementation did, it
would be great," Zuzula continues. "Everything runs fast and users are
happy. The Riverbed products have proven themselves stable and reliable;
ongoing operations and maintenance requirements for them are virtually
nil."

OMV is now planning to expand its installation of Riverbed Steelhead
appliances to include its global head office in Vienna, Austria.

About Expanse IT

Expanse IT is a "specialist integrator" focusing on the supply &
implementation of Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions,
as well as Netapp storage and VMWare virtualization products.

In recognizing Riverbed's leadership in Application Acceleration and WAN
Optimization technologies, Expanse IT has embraced the Riverbed product
portfolio and has the capability to architect and deliver Riverbed
solutions to both small and large scale enterprises.

Having dedicated capabilities and expertise that spans storage, backup,
networking and virtualization, Expanse IT aims to help organizations sort
through product claims, provide straight answers and deliver solutions &
products best suited to address customers' business needs.

Expanse IT staff have designed and successfully implemented a number of
application acceleration and WDS solutions across heterogeneous
environments addressing key areas such as WAN acceleration, consolidation,
remote site mirroring, remote backup and VPN solutions.

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About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure 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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