Expanded user conference addresses architectural solutions for making
the hybrid enterprise perform at its peak
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http://www.riverbed.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- (Business Wire)
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application performance
infrastructure, today announced that Riverbed FORCE 2014, the company’s
new, expanded user conference, will premiere November 3 – 6 at the San
Jose Convention Center. The theme of the conference is The Hybrid
Enterprise: How to Make Yours Perform at Its Peak. Session speakers
will address, from both business and technical perspectives, how to
manage the challenges of complexity brought on by combinations of
on-premises and cloud-based applications delivered over combinations of
private and public networks.
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Riverbed FORCE 2014 will feature General Session keynotes from business
leaders and industry experts, including Crossing the Chasm author
Geoffrey Moore, Intel CIO Kim Stevenson, and executives at Shell,
Riverbed, Akamai, and Zscaler; 80 hands-on labs and technical sessions;
free technical certification testing; and a Riverbed-Ready Technology
Partner Pavilion. Approximately 1,000 customers, partners, industry
analysts, press, and industry experts are expected to attend Riverbed
FORCE in San Jose, Calif. In addition, Riverbed has just opened advance
registration for a free live virtual event of the Riverbed FORCE General
Sessions keynotes to be held at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 4
(register at www.Riverbed.com).
In addition to a world-class speaker line-up, the General Session
keynotes will feature the launch of Riverbed SteelHead 9.0, delivering
breakthrough innovations in application visibility, control and
optimization to improve the performance of any application across the
hybrid enterprise.
“As our new, expanded user conference, Riverbed FORCE 2014 is an
opportunity for our customers to gain the tools and knowledge to address
the complexity of hybrid architectures and help ensure their hybrid
enterprise performs at its peak,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, chairman and
CEO, Riverbed. “In addition, we’re planning major announcements for our
flagship product, Riverbed SteelHead, which is now poised to do for the
cloud what it has done for the wide area network over the last decade.
Today, Riverbed has the most complete set of visibility and control
solutions to optimize any application’s performance across the hybrid
enterprise.”
The Rise of the Hybrid Enterprise
As Josh Greenbaum wrote in “The Rise Of The Hybrid Enterprise,” InformationWeek,
February 24, 2012, “What’s really dead or dying is the pure on-premises
business, and with it the notion that IT is a purely inside-the-firewall
phenomenon. And what’s growing rapidly, aided and abetted by pure-play
software-as-a-service vendors like Zuora and Salesforce, is the hybrid
enterprise.” According to Gartner, nearly half of large enterprises had
deployed a private cloud service as of September 2013, and all but 11%
plan to do so through 2014. The report noted that nearly three-fourths
of large enterprises expect to have hybrid deployments by 2015.1
As a result of this trend, applications and data are everywhere today
and IT architectural complexity is greatly compounded by the very nature
of the hybrid enterprise. In addition, networks, the delivery channels
that allow users to access these applications and data, are also going
hybrid, with MPLS networks for mission-critical apps and the Internet
for recreational traffic, SaaS, and backup. Today’s CIOs must provide an
environment where users around the globe can access applications, data,
and the underlying infrastructure – whether located on-premises in data
centers and private clouds or consumed as services from public clouds,
and no matter over what network they’re delivered – with an optimal
experience for every end user in any work situation. That’s what it
means to make the hybrid enterprise perform at its peak – which, because
enterprises run on applications and data, is truly mission-critical for
businesses.
Riverbed FORCE Conference Highlights
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General Session keynotes with Crossing the Chasm author
Geoffrey Moore, Intel CIO Kim Stevenson, Akamai Product/Development
President Rick McConnell, Zscaler CEO and Founder Jay Chaudhry, Jay
Haines of Shell, Riverbed Chairman and CEO, Jerry M. Kennelly,
Riverbed Chief Scientist Hansang Bae, as well as Riverbed Senior Vice
Presidents and General Managers, Paul O'Farrell and Mike Sargent.
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Featured session speakers include leading industry analysts from
Gartner and Forrester; IT leaders at Fortune 500 and global
organizations.
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80 technical sessions and hands-on labs across the Riverbed product
portfolio and covering key industry trends such as hybrid
architectures, SDN and virtualization, branch converged infrastructure
and much more (full sessions / hands-on labs agenda is available to
view here).
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Riverbed-Ready Technology Partner Pavilion featuring Microsoft, EMC,
VMware, Arista, Amazon Web Services, IBM, Avaya, Dimension Data,
Gigamon, and many others.
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Spectacular evening events including a party at Levi's® Stadium – new
home of the San Francisco 49ers.
Learn more at www.riverbedforce.com
to attend the full conference or General Session keynotes in San Jose,
California. To register in advance for the free live virtual event of
the General Session keynotes and Riverbed SteelHead 9.0 launch on
November 4, register at: http://rvbd.ly/ZGWPRk.
Follow the event @Riverbed.
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About Riverbed
Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in
Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete
platform for Location-Independent Computing. Location-Independent
Computing turns location and distance into a competitive advantage by
allowing IT to have the flexibility to host applications and data in the
most optimal locations while ensuring applications perform as expected,
data is always available when needed, and performance issues are
detected and fixed before end users notice. Riverbed’s 25,000+
customers include 97% of both the Fortune 100 and the Forbes Global
100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.
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1 Gartner, “Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid Cloud Is Next,”
September 2013.
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