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58%

2014

80%

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Windows

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Controllers
Riverbed is again a leader in the
Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN
Optimization Controllers. After 6
years in a row as a leader,
Riverbed stands alone in the
leaders quadrant.
The rate and pace of change in enterprise IT has grown
exponentially over the last few years, said Eric Wolford,
president products group at Riverbed. New IT
architectures and shifts in business structure such as cloud
computing, virtualization, software defined data centers,
mobility and the consumerization of IT create opportunities
for the business and new challenges for the CIO. Many of
our customers are finding that WAN optimization is at the
heart of enabling these new approaches without sacrificing
performance. With our breadth and depth of optimizations
and form factors, our customers rely on Riverbed as a
strategic partner for ensuring application performance.

Source: Gartner (April 2013) Joe Skorupa, Mark Fabbi, Bjarne Munch

This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Riverbed.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements
of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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SDR

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100

95

TCP
All TCP-based protocols and
applications

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TDS, NFS, FTP, HTPP, HTPPS, Oracle
Forms

MSFT Office, Lotus Notes, CAD,

Oracle, ERP, database, and data back
up/replication

UDP-based file transfer

applications
Signient, Aspera and
Veritas Volume replicator
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High Speed TCP,
Max Speed TCP, and
SCPS

Connection pooling

Riverbed

65% 98%

TCP

UDP

95

IPV6

TCP UDP
100
TCP 50

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splitting

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SharePoint, Office,
Exchange, Lotus Notes,
MS-SQL, Office 365

WAN
98

HTTP, Adobe & Microsoft

Silverlight Video over HTTP,
Live and on- demand video
(Polycom
& Adobe) SSL, Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft
SharePoint, Database apps,
web content,
CAD app, CRM, SAP, Lotus
Notes,

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print

Mac
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MAPI

MAPI
2K3

MAPI
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MAPI MAPI Lotus

crypto prepop Notes

HTTP

SSL

Oracle
Forms

ICA

NFS

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WAN Internet

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97%

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SharePoint online

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Packet Inspection

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DATA CENTER

Inbound
QoS

CoS marking
SMALL BRANCH OFFICE

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Appliances

Physical
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Virtual
Virtual
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Cloud
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Cloud
Accelerator
Accelerator

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WAN Op for
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WAN Op for SaaS

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Software for PC
& Mac laptops

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