Riverbed Accelerates VMware Replication and Application Performance for High-Growth Pharmaceutical Firm

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that Cubist Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:CBST) has selected and successfully deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead® WDS appliances across its globally distributed network. After evaluating competing alternatives, Cubist selected Riverbed® based on its ability to speed application and data transfers, delivering LAN-like application performance to remote users, while enabling consolidation of IT and replication of VMware virtual machine images to support its disaster recovery strategy.