Riverbed Insights

What is Riverbed?

Riverbed Technology (now part of Progress Software) provides solutions for application acceleration, network performance management, and cloud visibility. Their primary product, Riverbed SteelHead, optimizes WAN (Wide Area Network) performance by reducing bandwidth usage and improving application delivery, making it faster and more reliable for remote users and branch offices. Riverbed is commonly used to improve the performance of enterprise applications across geographically dispersed locations.

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What other technologies are related to Riverbed?

Riverbed Competitor Technologies

Cisco WAAS

Cisco WAAS is a direct competitor to Riverbed's WAN optimization solutions.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 38% (92) of relevant job posts

WAN Optimizer

WAN optimization is the category Riverbed belongs to. This is a general term encompassing any technology that does this.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 28% (52) of relevant job posts

Velo Cloud

VeloCloud (now part of VMware) is an SD-WAN vendor, offering similar WAN optimization capabilities.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 22% (60) of relevant job posts

Silverpeak

Silver Peak (now part of Aruba) was a direct competitor in the WAN optimization space.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 12% (93) of relevant job posts

WAN accelerators

WAN acceleration is another term for WAN optimization.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 11% (62) of relevant job posts

SD-WAN

SD-WAN solutions often include WAN optimization capabilities and are therefore competitors.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 1% (459) of relevant job posts

Riverbed Complementary Technologies

Application Load Balancers

Application Load Balancers optimize application delivery; Riverbed can further enhance performance over the WAN.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 25% (110) of relevant job posts

F5

F5 provides application delivery and security; Riverbed can improve WAN performance for applications delivered by F5.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 3% (943) of relevant job posts

NetScout

NetScout provides network performance monitoring, which can be complementary to Riverbed's optimization solutions by providing visibility and validation of improvements.

mentioned alongside Riverbed in 8% (237) of relevant job posts