Riverbed Technology has announced that Gartner has identified Riverbed in its September 2010 report, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 2Q10", as the WOC (WAN optimization controller) Advanced Platform (AP) worldwide market share leader for 2Q10 based on revenue. According to Gartner's market share report, Riverbed captured 40.3% of the AP WAN Optimization market.
"We attribute our continued success to innovative product development and strong partner and customer relationships. We are laser-focussed on solving the distance problem - where there is distance between humans and data we narrow the gap," said Eric Wolford, Senior Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at Riverbed. "As we communicate on an ongoing basis with our customer base to determine their ever-changing needs, we find that no matter which IT initiative they are embarking on to cut costs - whether it is branch office consolidation, data center virtualization, or migration to the cloud - they are forced to deal with the performance issues caused by distance inherent in a WAN environment."
Enterprises and government organizations leverage Riverbed WAN optimization to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility. By speeding the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.
