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Tredent Data Systems, Inc., the leader in wide are networking, today announced that they have selected Riverbed's Steelhead platform, a highly scalable WAN acceleration solution, for a new Managed WAN Acceleration Service or Solution as a Service (SaaS). Riverbed's high-performance Steelhead platform enables Tredent's professional services staff to fine-tune network performance to improve application delivery and reduce bottlenecks. Tredent's new Managed WAN Acceleration Service, which relies on Riverbed's Steelhead platform, can help distributed enterprises to accelerate application delivery over the WAN, leverage WAN investments and boost user productivity.

"We chose Riverbed Technology's high-performance Steelhead platform for our Managed WAN Acceleration Service because it enhances application visibility and improves application response time and WAN efficiency," said Charles Beck, vice president of sales at Tredent Data Systems, Inc. "Riverbed is helping us to deliver on our commitment to offer a world-class experience to our business customers. Their platform offers significant scalability which is enabling us to meet the needs of our multinational customers."

The Steelhead platform improves application performance over the WAN by recognizing and eliminating redundant transmissions; accelerating TCP and application-specific protocols; prioritizing and allocating access to bandwidth; and ensuring high application availability at locations with various WAN connections. The Steelhead application acceleration platforms work end-to-end with a multitude of applications, including Web-based (HTTP,HTTPS,FTP,SSL, etc), client-server (CIFS, MAPI, SQL, Oracle, Email), custom software, voice and video. The platforms also include a broad set of management tools for monitoring and reporting on WAN optimization and application acceleration performance.

The new Managed WAN Acceleration Service (SaaS) offering will allow Tredent's customers take advantage of the business enhancements that WAN optimization and application acceleration bring to corporate networks without having the huge capital outlay that normally comes with deploying an enterprise wide WAN acceleration solution. This approach is allowing more businesses to take advantage of WAN optimization technology in their environment while only needing to make low monthly payments during the term of the service. "Most customers are choosing to make the term of the new Managed WAN Acceleration Service (SaaS) offering match that of their current WAN circuit contract so that they can make a decision on new technology or upgrades to existing technology when they are considering the renewal of their circuit contract" said Justin Lofton, senior systems engineer at Tredent Data Systems, Inc.

About Tredent Data Systems, Inc.

Tredent Data Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of systems integration solutions and services to medium and large business customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed customer service with advanced technology and professional service capabilities, Tredent Data Systems, Inc. delivers innovative and unique business solutions to customers around the world. For more information, visit www.tredent.com.

About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed's WDS solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise data centers and remote offices, Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo 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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Fueling the high growth rate for Retailers, Manufacturers and Distributors is a flurry of mergers and acquisitions. In today's world of mergers and acquisitions, and heavy usage of the Web, companies are facing a new reality. Software that meets the company's needs now will not be effective after a new acquisition takes place, or if sales substantially increase as a result of using the Web.

While meeting with a prospective client -- a CEO of a large cleaning supply company -- about purchasing new software, he told me that he was planning to grow his business by end of the year from 300 million to 500 million dollars by acquiring competitors he was negotiating with. When I asked him how he planned to integrate his company's software with the new companies he was planning to acquire, his response was: “You hit the nail on its head. The software we are using cannot support our future acquisition plans. We will have to let the companies we plan to acquire keep using their current software until we find software that can meet our new needs. Not having the right software will result in a substantial increase of our operating cost. The unfortunate part is that we did not have the foresight to think ahead of the fact that our current software would not be able to support our acquisition plans. Nobody expected that we would grow at this rate and now we have to pay the price.”

Here are 4 unforeseen business disruptions that are likely to happen when your business environment changes:

1. Quite often companies engaged in e-commerce, experience an unexpectedly high volume of sales' transactions that the current software cannot handle efficiently, resulting in the need for additional labor and excessive operating costs.

2. Frequently, the current software cannot provide the desired analytical information needed, resulting in the downloading of large amounts of data to spread sheets and more complex data manipulation to get the needed reports.

3. When mergers and acquisitions take place, the number of users along with the transaction volume will substantially increase, resulting in the possibility that the current computer system will not be able to handle this sudden change.

4. The acquired company might not have the same business practices as the company doing the takeover, resulting in the possibility that the current software may not be able to handle the new business demands. This can result in multiple software platforms being used creating higher operating costs and additional complexities in the computer infrastructure.

When planning future expansion, steps should be taken to ensure smooth business growth.

Software effectiveness evaluations should be performed the same way as evaluating old equipment in a factory. When evaluating the current software functions, the focus should not be on how well the software meets the business needs today, but whether it can meet the business growth of tomorrow when the company moves to the “next level.” In today's business reality, which is changing at lighting speed, lack of planning can be a very costly proposition.

Nobody likes change, but not facing the fact that a company's current software is outdated can result in substantial business disruptions and expenses down the road. The question that should always be asked is: “if the business reality changes drastically resulting in an unexpectedly large amount of new users or volume of data transactions, could the current software be able handle it?”

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