Articles from Riverbed Technology

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced a major expansion of the Riverbed Platform—delivering a bold set of AI-powered observability solutions that bring together Riverbed Generative, Predictive and Agentic AI, along with innovative data observability modules for unified communications applications, network packets and Intel® Thunderbolt™ and Wi-Fi connected devices.

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced the winners of its Partner of the Year Awards. The Riverbed leadership team presented the awards to this year’s winners at the 2025 Riverbed Partner Kickoff event. The awards celebrated Riverbed partners for their contributions in delivering new AI-powered observability and acceleration solutions that yield measurable results for mutual customers, enhancing enterprise performance and creating superior digital experiences. In total, Riverbed recognized 11 global partners for their outstanding achievements over the past year across multiple categories.

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced the industry’s most advanced AI-driven automated remediation, with the addition of customizable runbooks (Riverbed automation) and integrated sentiment analysis to Aternity’s Intelligent Service Desk. The customizable runbooks in Aternity enable more sophisticated remediations—replicating advanced investigations by correlating end-user impact and real-time granular performance data to identify incident root cause in order to tackle IT’s most challenging issues. The new Intelligent Service Desk capabilities also enable IT to understand end-user satisfaction through the integration of sentiment analysis across remediation workflows, from issue detection to resolution.

Riverbed, the leader in Unified Observability, announced the results of the Riverbed Global Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Survey 2023, which found that organizations today must employ high standards for the DEX in order to remain competitive and retain talent, in particular for younger generation employees who would otherwise consider leaving the Company. The survey polled a combined 1,800 global IT decision makers (ITDMs) and business decision makers (BDMs) across 10 countries and seven industries, exploring generational expectations, hybrid work, the evolving role of IT, and challenges and strategies to delivering an exceptional DEX.

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced that the Company recognized top global partners across Europe during the Riverbed European Partner Connect 2023 event in Amsterdam on July 4 – 5. The Partner Awards distinguish partner companies for their work in helping mutual customers unify data, insights, and actions across IT to deliver a seamless digital experience, and providing fast and secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. In total, Riverbed honored seven partner companies for their achievements in 2022 across various regional categories.

Riverbed®, the leader in Unified Observability, today announced that Fujitsu, a market leading global IT service provider, selected Alluvio™ Aternity, as a key technology for its Intelligent Automation Platform (IAP). IAP is a Fujitsu initiative to deliver a core automation engine underpinning Fujitsu’s offerings such as End User Services, Service Desk and Enterprise Cyber Security. Integrating three core technologies: Alluvio Aternity, Amelia, and OpsRamp, IAP creates a platform which will provide Fujitsu customers an improved user experience.

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced the launch of the new Riverbed ACE program, which includes a partner managed SaaS Digital Experience Management (DEM) service focused on expanding opportunities for partners and scaling the Alluvio Aternity DEM business. The ACE program is targeted to managed service provider (MSP) partners that deliver services to small and medium enterprises, and are new customers to Alluvio Aternity DEM, with less than five thousand global users.

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced that it was named a Leader in Everest Group’s report: Workplace Employee Experience Management Platforms PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023. Everest Group assessed 10 Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform providers, which was based on the research firm’s annual request for information (RFI) process conducted over Q4 2022 and Q1 2023, exchanges with leading DEX platform providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the DEX market.

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, has been recognized by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a prestigious 5-star rating in its 2023 Partner Program Guide.

More than half the federal government IT employees responding to a recent survey say they are worried their IT systems will struggle to deliver good user experiences as more agency employees return to working in offices instead of remotely, according to a new survey released today by Riverbed® and Swish.

Riverbed® today announced that Ghabbour Auto (GB Auto), a leading automotive company in the Middle East and non-bank financial services (NBFS) provider in Egypt, has chosen Riverbed® SaaS Accelerator, Riverbed® Client Accelerator, and Riverbed® SteelHead™ within the Riverbed Acceleration portfolio to enhance the performance of their hybrid network and mission-critical applications for its 54 subsidiaries, located across four countries. The engagement will empower GB Auto to deliver secure, optimized performance and enhance the digital experiences for all employees, as well as customers who are increasingly utilizing the company’s website and mobile app to access services quickly and conveniently.

Riverbed® today launched a broad strategy to bring industry-leading unified observability to customers worldwide and accelerate growth. Front and center in the company’s strategy is the development of an expanded unified observability portfolio, which will unify data, insights and actions to solve one of the industry’s most daunting problems: how to provide seamless digital experiences that are high performing and secure in a hybrid world of highly distributed users and applications, exploding data and soaring IT complexity. Riverbed also launched a new brand identity, including the introduction of Alluvio by Riverbed™ (for Unified Observability), reflecting the evolution of the Company and technology, and strong market momentum as evidenced by over 30% year-over-year bookings growth for its visibility and observability solutions in the last three quarters.

Riverbed Technology (“Riverbed” or the “Company”) today announced that it has taken the next steps in its recapitalization, voluntarily commencing Chapter 11 cases to implement its “prepackaged” financial restructuring plan to reduce the Company’s debt by more than $1 billion and provide the Company with an additional $35 million cash infusion, positioning the Company for long-term success. Lenders holding 100% of Riverbed’s funded secured debt have now approved the transactions contemplated in the previously announced Restructuring Support Agreement, which will be implemented through an accelerated court-supervised process.

Riverbed | Aternity today announced they will showcase their end-to-end visibility and network and acceleration solutions at Microsoft Ignite 2021, the free two-day virtual event on November 2-4, 2021. As an Azure-Certified and Gold Cloud Platform Competency partner, Riverbed | Aternity works with Microsoft to enable organizations to maximize visibility and performance across networks, applications and end-user devices, so they can fully capitalize on their digital, hybrid workplace and Microsoft investments. Through a series of presentations, demos and downloadable resources, anyone can visit the Microsoft Ignite 2021 Riverbed | Aternity Digital Showcase and learn more about using Riverbed | Aternity solutions to deliver the best user experience possible for Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams & Stream. With Riverbed | Aternity solutions, organizations can get up to 8x faster M365 performance, migrate data from on-prem to Azure 99% faster, and gain 100% visibility across hybrid networks, modern apps, and remote users to detect and resolve issues 90% faster.

Riverbed Technology (“Riverbed” or the “Company”) today announced that, as part of its efforts to proactively strengthen the Company’s financial position, it has entered into a Restructuring Support Agreement (the “RSA”) with its equity sponsors and an ad hoc group of lenders (the “Ad Hoc Group”) holding a super-majority of its funded secured debt regarding the terms of a comprehensive financial restructuring that will reduce its funded secured debt by over $1 billion and provide a $100 million cash infusion, $65 million of which is available immediately, to position the Company for long-term success (the “Recapitalization”). Upon consummation of the Recapitalization, a group of sophisticated institutional investors led by Apollo Global Management (“Apollo”) will become the majority owners of the Company through their managed funds.

Riverbed® today announced it added more critical cloud visibility and reporting capabilities to its industry-leading end-to-end visibility solutions – including support of Azure NSG and AWS VPC flow logs. Key updates to the Riverbed Network Performance Management (NPM) portfolio—the leading and only unified network visibility solution that collects every packet, all flows and all infrastructure metrics, 100% of the time–-delivers greater cloud visibility that is crucial to monitoring productivity and performance, as organizations continue to shift toward hybrid and multi-cloud network environments.