Riverbed receives Frost & Sullivan 2011 Award

Riverbed Technology has announced that it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2011 India IT & Telecom Excellence Award for Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization Controller Vendor of the Year. Riverbed was given this recognition for delivering exceptional business performance for the year 2010.

This is the third recent regional recognition Riverbed has been awarded by Frost & Sullivan. In 2010, Riverbed was recognized as the Frost & Sullivan Application Networking Vendor of the Year in Asia-Pacific. In addition, Riverbed received the Frost & Sullivan 2010 Australia Best Practices Award for Application Networking Vendor of the Year.

"As improvements on the economic front prompted several enterprises to return to their spending ways, the ability of WAN optimization solutions to reduce redundancies in the rapidly expanding corporate wide area networks (WANs) was perceived by enterprises to be a highly valuable business tool," said Anand Rangachary, Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia, Middle East & North Africa. "More importantly, WAN acceleration is also perceived as a technology through which the return on investment (RoI) could be better articulated, based on its direct impact on aspects such as application performance, bandwidth efficiency, and even employee productivity."

"Riverbed Technology is a global specialist in WAN optimization. The company was able to leverage its strong positioning and highly visible branding to dominate the segment. The combination of a market-leading product strategy, the company's foresight in reaching out to service providers and the development of its channel structure was undoubtedly critical in enabling continued success for the organization in 2010," added Rangachary.