SAN FRANCISCO, CA–( EMWNews – April 2, 2008) – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the

technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today

announced that it will be participating in Computerworld Storage Networking

World, taking place April 7 – 10, 2008 at Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in

Orlando, Florida. Storage Networking World is the world’s largest and

foremost storage networking event where IT management and professionals

learn, network and maximize their company’s storage capabilities. At the

Riverbed® booth (#1202), the company will demo its award-winning WDS

solutions.

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

significantly more productive.

To provide a real-world example for attendees, Riverbed customer Adam

Rasner of Rayonier, Inc. will present “SAN Replication and Wide Area Data

Services: The One-Two Punch for Consolidating Your Data Center,” in which

he will explain how WDS technology has enabled Rayonier’s existing

bandwidth usage per day to plunge between 75 to 90 percent, providing a

virtual bandwidth increase of 13 – 16X. Rasner’s presentation will also

provide details on how WDS technology plus SAN technology allows Rayonier

to take advantage of de-duplication techniques and to speed data

replication and back-up. In addition, Joshua Tseng, director of technical

marketing at Riverbed, will present “Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration

Technologies.”

Who:    Adam Rasner, Rayonier, Inc.

What:   SAN Replication and Wide Area Data Services: The One-Two Punch

        for Consolidating Your Data Center

When:   Monday, April 7, 10:15 - 11:00 a.m.



Who:    Joshua Tseng, Director of Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology

What:   Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration Technologies

When:   Tuesday, April 8, 4:00 - 4:45 p.m.

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-K filed with the SEC on February 15, 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.