Riverbed Showcases Award-Winning Steelhead Appliances; Moderates CIO Discussion at the ALM CIO and

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), will showcase its award-winning Steelhead® appliances at the American Lawyer and Law Firm (ALM) CIO and CTO Forum January 29-31, 2007 at the New York Hilton, New York, New York. In addition, Riverbed’s Vice President of Product Marketing, Alan Saldich, will moderate a session at the conference titled, “Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions: How the Role of the CIO and the IT Department Can Be a Champion of Change.”

Riverbed recently expanded its success in the legal market with the addition of three new legal customers. To learn how Riverbed is helping those customers improve productivity, while reducing costs, visit http://www.riverbed.com/news/press_releases/press_011607.php.

Booth Demonstrations

Riverbed® will showcase its Steelhead appliances in the Riverbed booth, and demonstrate how the appliances can improve the performance of applications over wide area networks (WANs) typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between distributed offices. The Steelhead appliance’s intelligent optimizations give companies that share data and collaborate between distributed offices significant performance improvements for a broad range of applications that are important to their businesses, offering these companies the ability to improve client service while simplifying IT infrastructure and realizing significant capital and operational cost savings. To learn more about Riverbed’s WDS solutions, try our demo at www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.

Riverbed executives and customers will be attending the conference and will be available to speak on a number of technology and market-trend topics.

For more information on the third annual ALM CTO and CIO Forum, visit http://www.almevents.com/r5/cob_page.asp?category_id=43752.

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, 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.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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