Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced it has been awarded the 2009 STAR Award for Best Practices in Emerging Company Support by the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA), an industry association for technology service and support professionals.
The STAR Awards acknowledge the contribution of companies of all sizes to the continual improvement of industry-wide service and support delivery. Riverbed® was recognized for its service and support program development, implementation and benchmarking in the Best Emerging Company Support category. The SSPA award program includes a rigorous review process led and judged by industry peers. The judging committee, overseen by the SSPA Advisory Board, evaluates criteria including customer support center responsiveness, web self-service, product supportability, proactive service offerings, and customer and business impacts.
“Today's highly volatile economy makes for an extremely competitive marketplace in which best practices can make or break the bottom-line performance of a service and support organization,” said Stephen Smith, executive director of the SSPA. “The awards presented an intense competition, and all of the companies nominated for the Spring STAR Awards deserve credit for raising the bar among their peers.”
Winners were honored at the Technology Services World (TSW) conference in Silicon Valley, produced by the SSPA, the Association for Services Management International (AFSMI), and the Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA). Technology Services World 2009 Silicon Valley is the largest gathering of service executives and management in the industry.
"In addition to offering leading WAN optimization products, this recognition speaks volumes to our commitment to provide Riverbed customers an outstanding customer support organization,” said Scott Downie, vice president of customer support at Riverbed.
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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. 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 Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on April 30, 2009. 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.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at
www.riverbed.com.
About the SSPA
As the industry’s foremost professional association, the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) is a key resource for the information and best practices needed to make better business decisions. It brings together the best minds from across the industry—from established companies with successful track records to pioneering newcomers with out-of-the-box ideas. For more information, visit
www.thesspa.com.
Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, Think Fast, the Riverbed logo, Mazu, Profiler and Cascade 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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