Riverbed Taps Proven Sales Executive to Accelerate Growth in Asia Pacific Region.

Former NetApp Executive, Thomas Chin, Named Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan

SAN FRANCISCO -- Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that Thomas Chin has joined the company as Vice President, APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan). In his role, Chin will be responsible for driving Riverbed's APJ business, including customer growth, sales strategy and partner acquisition. Chin has more than twenty years experience in building new and emerging markets for some of the world's leading technology companies, including Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp), and Adaptec, Inc.

"Tom brings to Riverbed a global perspective that enables him to build high-touch, local business models that also reflect the worldwide nature of today's business," said Jerry Kennelly, CEO and president of Riverbed[R]. "Tom's proven extensive experience working with the Global 2000, coupled with his close relationships with channel and OEM partners, makes him an ideal addition to the Riverbed management team."

Chin previously spent seven years with NetApp in various roles, including Managing Director, Senior Director and Vice President, Asia Pacific. During that time, he built and nurtured a sales organization that penetrated local enterprises across Asia and assisted customers globally. During his tenure at NetApp, revenues in Asia Pacific grew 80X.

Prior to NetApp, Chin acted as Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Adaptec where he built both strong channel relationships and grew revenue more than 10X. Chin also was the founder of CFH Associates, which represented global high-technology manufacturers in Asian markets, including introducing IBM solutions into the mainland-China market. Chin also held sales positions with several other technology companies in both the US and Asia, including Wang Laboratories.

"Riverbed's best-of-breed WDS solutions are ideally suited for distributed businesses across Asia, including the Global 2000," said Chin. "I look forward to developing Riverbed's business across APJ, and building on our already strong results across the region."

About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed's wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites, by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead[R] WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances 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 our 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, increase revenues, grow market share or grow the market as a whole. 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 Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the "Risk Factors" section in our final Prospectus dated September 20, 2006, and in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 31, 2006. 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.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the performance 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.

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