Riverbed Technology, Inc. (RVBD) provides wide-area data services solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers solutions to the problems of wide-area distributed computing.
The company primarily provides Steelhead appliances, which consist of its RiOS proprietary software. Its line of Steelhead appliances addresses the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments, to large headquarters and datacenter locations.
The company also offers Central Management Console, a product designed to manage various Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying, configuring, monitoring, reporting, and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances.
Riverbed Technology's customers include finance, engineering, professional services, manufacturing, media, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, utilities, telecom, government, retail, architecture, construction, and technology industries.
The company sells its products indirectly through value added resellers and OEMs, as well as directly through its sales force. It has partnerships principally with Hewlett-Packard and EMC Corporation.
The company was co-founded by Jerry M. Kennelly and Steven McCanne in 2002 under the name NBT Technology, Inc. and changed its name to Riverbed Technology, Inc. in 2003. Riverbed Technology is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |
