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Riverbed Appoints Ray Villeneuve as General Manager of Cloud Storage Acceleration
Riverbed Technology
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Prior to joining Riverbed,
Villeneuve held the CEO and President positions at several technology startups,
including Liaise, a Silicon Valley company founded with the goal of helping
people work faster, smarter and more easily with others by offering a business
interaction management solution, and MonoSphere, the creator of an
award-winning storage capacity management software application for enterprise
data centers. Prior to this, Villeneuve was the vice president of marketing at
NetApp, where he helped to create that company's growth strategy and execute
worldwide enterprise account penetration.
The cloud storage
acceleration business unit within Riverbed will focus on product development,
marketing strategy, and go-to-market execution for the Whitewater gateway solution.
With Whitewater, organizations have a fast, secure and cost-efficient solution
to seamlessly move backup data offsite to public cloud storage environments.
Whitewater connects directly to the industry's most popular backup/restore
software tools as well as the leading cloud service provider application
programming interfaces (APIs). It securely accelerates backup and recovery
operations, deduplicates and compresses data to reduce storage costs in the
cloud and installs quickly without requiring changes to the existing backup
infrastructure. The broad ecosystem for Whitewater enables organizations to
flexibly transition between major cloud storage providers, should requirements
change.
"Riverbed has proven
to be an innovation leader over the years. The introduction of the Whitewater
storage gateway catapulted the company into a new market where optimizing data
protection while maintaining high performance is essential," said
Villeneuve. "I'm pleased to join a company with world-class product
development and engineering teams that have delivered on a customer-driven
roadmap, as well as executive leadership that has set the foundation for
success as we execute initiatives to grow the business."
More than 13,000
organizations worldwide, across a wide range of markets, depend on Riverbed to
understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Riverbed delivers
hardware, software and virtualized solutions that overcome performance issues
caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data.
Virtualization, consolidation and cloud computing promise huge cost savings and
improved efficiencies, but as users move farther from their data, slow
applications and file transfers can stall these strategic initiatives. Riverbed
delivers to the remote office and mobile workers the same "local area
network (LAN)-like" performance, no matter where the private data center
or public cloud may be. Riverbed continues building on its success in the wide
area network (WAN) optimization, application-aware network performance
management (NPM) and data protection markets with new and innovative solutions
for accelerating cloud storage and access to applications and data deployed in
public, private and hybrid clouds.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements
relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services,
statements regarding the expected growth of Riverbed's Whitewater business, 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
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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
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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-Q
filed with the SEC on April 29, 2011. 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.