Kendle Selects Riverbed WAN Optimization to Accelerate Its IT Infrastructure Performance

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 01 (MARKET WIRE) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance
company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that
Kendle International Inc. has selected and deployed Riverbed(R) WAN
optimization solutions. Kendle deployed the Riverbed Steelhead(R)
appliances to speed performance of its centralized applications. As a
result, Kendle has dramatically reduced its bandwidth utilization and
increased employee productivity while reducing its overall IT
infrastructure costs.

Kendle is a leading global clinical research organization providing the
full range of early- to late-stage clinical development services for the
world's biopharmaceutical industry. The organization was founded in 1981.
To support its growing employee base in dispersed locations worldwide,
Kendle has a multi-tiered IT infrastructure that consists of six regional
data centers that maintain a large amount of equipment and various
infrastructure components, from application servers to mail systems and
databases. Several of these locations have a massive amount of clinical
data that is regularly accessed by employees in Kendle's global locations.

Access to centralized applications, including SharePoint, PeopleSoft,
Oracle, SQL, Lotus Notes, and a variety of internal applications, is
critical to the success of Kendle's business. Therefore, Kendle's IT team
is constantly searching for solutions to improve remote access and improve
overall system efficiency.

As part of its continuous improvement program, Kendle installed network
compression appliances at its six primary data centers, deployed Citrix to
WAN-enable the heavier core applications, and upgraded its network
bandwidth. Although this provided marked performance improvement, the
company decided to reevaluate its entire WAN optimization environment by
engaging Gartner for market analysis and then moved forward with a vendor
evaluation process.

"Our number one goal was to find a new WAN optimization solution that
would positively impact our end-users' experience when accessing our
centralized applications. Riverbed came out on top in all of the tests we
conducted in our real-world environment," said James Miller, Director of
Global Networking and Telecommunications at Kendle. "During the free
trial of the Riverbed Steelhead appliances we received unsolicited
positive responses from remote office end-users and IT staff. Once the
evaluation was complete and the devices removed, we had end-users and IT
knocking on our doors asking what had happened. This was the big seller
for us. A positive end-user experience is critical."

Kendle deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances at its six primary data
center locations. Within a 30-day timeframe, Kendle removed 1.2 terabytes
of data from the WAN and experienced a more than three-fold capacity
improvement in terms of the bandwidth utilization. With Riverbed
installed, Kendle is experiencing reduced utilization of WAN bandwidth,
including a 70% reduction in Lotus Notes traffic, approximately 78%
reduction in TCP CIFS traffic, and an 83% reduction in HTTP traffic. The
reduction of data traversing the WAN has eliminated the need for Kendle to
invest in additional bandwidth upgrades at the majority of its sites.

At several remote locations, Kendle has deployed VMware ESX servers that
host user and company data, as well as provide infrastructure services.
"This solution works well, but there is still an investment in the server
infrastructure and backup infrastructure at these remote locations.
Additionally, traditional backups require that an administrator change
tapes and check the backups each day, which can be rather time consuming,"
said Nathan Thompson, Corporate Nework Manager at Kendle. In these
locations Kendle is leveraging its Steelhead appliance deployment by
running the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) as a replacement to its
traditional ESX deployments. "Making use of the RSP platform and Steelhead
appliance performance gains allows us to consolidate data back into the
datacenters. We are able to provide basic infrastructure services such as
DNS, DHCP, WINS and WDS from within the RSP platform. By moving all data
back to the data center, the need for backup infrastructure in our remote
sites has been eliminated," said Thompson.

"Selecting Riverbed as our WAN optimization vendor has provided us with
scenarios for our IT infrastructure that we haven't previously been able
to take advantage of," Thompson continued. "The application acceleration
and data deduplication was critical, but the added benefit of further
consolidating infrastructure at our remote locations provides us with
great cost savings and productivity gains."

When Kendle selected Riverbed as its WAN optimization provider, the IT
team liked the synergies that Riverbed solutions had with VMware
technology. Though Kendle has already virtualized more than 60% of its
global infrastructure using VMware, the organization is looking to
further reduce its IT footprint at remote offices through the use of
VMware on Riverbed's RSP platform.

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About Kendle

Kendle International Inc. (NASDAQ: KNDL) is a leading global clinical
research organization providing the full range of early- to late-stage
clinical development services for the world's biopharmaceutical industry.
The Company's focus is on innovative solutions that reduce cycle times for
our customers and accelerate the delivery of life-enhancing drugs to
market for the benefit of patients worldwide. As one of the
fastest-growing global providers of Phase I-IV services, Kendle offers
experience spanning more than 100 countries, along with industry-leading
patient access and retention capabilities and broad therapeutic
expertise, to meet customers' clinical development challenges.

Additional information and investor kits are available upon request from
Kendle, 441 Vine Street, Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45202 or from the
Kendle Web site at www.kendle.com.

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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