READING, UK - 12th February 2008

Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), and Redstor today announced that LeasePlan, a growing international network of companies engaged in fleet and vehicle management, has selected and deployed Riverbed’s WDS solutions across its UK offices. The implementation has enabled productivity at the company’s remote offices to greatly improve by improving application response times, while also consolidating the IT backup process and providing annual cost savings.

LeasePlan UK works with some of the largest and most prestigious fleets in the UK. It has more than 130,000 vehicles in its fleet, employs over 600 employees and has an annual turnover of more than £100m. LeasePlan upgraded its wide-area network (WAN) as part of a global project to rationalize its network operation to a single service provider. The end goal was to improve the performance of applications over the network and deliver cost savings to the organization. Unfortunately, the outcome did not yield such results, so the IT team was forced to look elsewhere to satisfy their application performance improvement needs.

LeasePlan’s IT reseller, Redstor, recommended Riverbed Technology. After a consultation and trial period with the Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances, LeasePlan UK installed Steelhead products at each of its four UK locations. Upon activation, LeasePlan recognized a 10 times performance improvement in application response times, particularly for Microsoft office applications, and cut its WAN-based backup and update process from 1.5 hours to 20 minutes.

“The Riverbed Steelhead appliances do ‘what it says on the tin,’ the installation was quick and simple and the results were noticeable almost instantaneously,” said Andy Hussey, IT infrastructure architect at LeasePlan UK. “We needed a solution that would allow our employees to share information across the four UK sites. The Riverbed installation has effectively increased our network capacity by up to five times, with speed of document access increasing substantially,” commented Hussey.

He continued, “Given the way LeasePlan operates, we have a lot of office collaboration in terms of information and document sharing. Pre-Riverbed, complaints were on the rise and inter-office collaboration was being hindered. We now have employees talking positively about the network. In addition, the scalability of the Riverbed system suits our business plans. For example, we have recently doubled the capacity of one of our appliances to meet the needs of the office. This upgrade was achieved without installing new hardware, it was simply a case of purchasing new larger Riverbed licenses,” said Hussey.

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