It's said that a person’s true character is exposed under pressure. I think the same can be said for companies as well. Late last year I wrote about Riverbed Technology (RVBD) as a good candidate to have its fundamentals buck the economic downtrend. The company makes the Steelhead family of appliances (i.e. hardware/software) that accelerate wide-area-network (WAN) access. In this particular market segment it's the industry leader.Riverbed’s customers report that application performance increases five to 50 times prior levels along the 60%-95% reduction in bandwidth utilization. Consequently an IT manager may be able to scale back to a slower ...

Unlike many other companies that sell high-tech products to corporations, Riverbed Technology Inc. has defied much of the downturn in the last year. But its stock valuation is a concern.

Plans to Extend Existing Private Cloud Benefits of Market-Leading WAN Optimization to Applications and Storage in Public Clouds

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by Ridgewater Equity (RWE).

Riverbed Executive Drives Industry Discussions on IT Infrastructure and Cloud Performance; Riverbed Customers Present Real-World Private Cloud Success at CIO Boot Camp and Riverbed Booth