Riverbed and Oracle showcase faster AI data movement at LEAP 2026. The conversations at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh made one thing abundantly clear: organisations are no longer asking whether AI will transform their business. They're asking how quickly they can turn AI ambition into operational reality.That was the focus of its joint presence with Oracle at LEAP, where Riverbed showcased Riverbed Data Express to customers and prospects from across Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East. Together, Riverbed Technology, Inc. demonstrated how organisations can overcome one of the biggest barriers to successful AI initiatives: data movement to support vast amounts of data securely, quickly, and efficiently to where it is needed most. AI and cloud ambitions are growing faster than data infrastructure. Across discussions with enterprise leaders, government organisations, and technology teams, a common challenge emerged. Many organisations at LEAP 2026 shared ambitious AI roadmaps. They have access to cloud infrastructure and increasingly sophisticated AI tools. However, a common challenge remains: getting the right data to the right place at the right time. As AI workloads expand, organisations must move and prepare massive datasets across clouds, data centres, edge locations, and AI infrastructure. For many, data movement has become the primary bottleneck to AI adoption. Another recurring theme was the rise of multicloud strategies. Rather than standardising on a single cloud provider, organisations are selecting services across multiple clouds based on performance, cost, data sovereignty requirements, and AI capabilities. As a result, data is increasingly distributed across cloud environments, data centres, and edge locations, making fast and efficient data mobility a critical operational requirement. At scale, moving large datasets remains a significant hurdle. Transferring terabytes or petabytes of data using traditional approaches can take weeks or even months, delaying AI initiatives, cloud migrations, analytics projects, and other business-critical workloads. Organisations also highlighted the growing complexity of distributed operations. As businesses expand into new regions, remote locations increasingly rely on on-demand satellite connectivity to support operations. While satellite networks extend access to previously underserved locations, they also create new challenges for moving large volumes of data across constrained and often expensive network links. Underlying all of these discussions was a common business objective: reducing connectivity costs while supporting growth. Many organisations are looking for ways to maximise the value of existing network investments and avoid purchasing additional bandwidth simply to accommodate cloud adoption, AI workloads, or distributed operations. The conclusion was clear: whether supporting AI, enabling multicloud strategies, connecting remote sites, or accelerating cloud migration, organisations need faster, more efficient ways to move data wherever it is needed. The need for speed in data movement has become a strategic business requirement. This challenge is particularly relevant in Saudi Arabia, where investment in artificial intelligence, cloud services, and digital transformation continues to accelerate as part of the Kingdom's broader technology vision. The scale and focus of LEAP itself reflected this momentum, bringing together hundreds of thousands of attendees, technology leaders, investors, and innovators to explore the future of AI and digital infrastructure. Riverbed and Oracle: helping customers move at the speed of AI. At LEAP, Riverbed and Oracle demonstrated how Riverbed Data Express addresses this challenge. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Data Express is designed to accelerate the movement of massive datasets across cloud environments and geographic regions. It enables organisations to move data up to 10x faster than traditional approaches while simplifying deployment and reducing operational complexity. Visitors were particularly interested in several key capabilities: * High-speed movement of petabyte-scale datasets * Rapid cloud migration and consolidation projects * Simplified SaaS-based deployment * Improved visibility, governance, and control over data transfers * Reduced costs associated with extended migration timelines and cloud egress Many attendees recognised that as AI initiatives scale, data movement is becoming a strategic capability rather than simply an infrastructure task. Data Express helps organisations accelerate cloud adoption and AI initiatives by enabling the fast, secure movement of large datasets across cloud environments. By eliminating data transfer bottlenecks, organisations can reduce project risk, control costs, and quickly realise value from their cloud and AI investments. Strong interest from Saudi organisations. One of the most encouraging outcomes from LEAP was the quality of customer discussions. Organisations across both the public and private sectors shared a common objective: accelerate digital transformation while maintaining security, governance, and operational efficiency.Whether supporting AI initiatives, cloud modernisation, business expansion, or data resilience programmes, many teams face the same challenge. The ability to move large volumes of data quickly and securely is increasingly critical to business outcomes. The strong interest Riverbed Technology, Inc. saw at LEAP reinforces its belief that the market is ready for a new approach to enterprise data movement, particularly as AI projects require larger datasets, more cloud flexibility, and faster execution. The power of partnership with Oracle. LEAP also highlighted the value of collaboration between Riverbed and Oracle. By combining Oracle's cloud platform and AI ecosystem with Riverbed's expertise in data movement and acceleration, Riverbed Technology, Inc. is helping customers reduce complexity and accelerate time to value from their AI investments. LEAP provided an excellent opportunity not only to demonstrate technology but also to engage directly with customers about their transformation goals and the practical challenges they face in achieving them. Riverbed Technology, Inc. would like to thank Oracle for partnering with Riverbed Technology, Inc. at LEAP and the many customers, partners, and technology leaders who visited the stand throughout the event. Looking ahead. The conversations at LEAP confirmed a clear market reality: the need for speed is no longer limited to applications, networks, or AI models. It now extends directly to data movement. Whether organisations are migrating to the cloud, adopting multicloud architectures, supporting remote operations through satellite connectivity, or scaling AI initiatives, success increasingly depends on how quickly and efficiently data can move between locations, clouds, and users. Across nearly every customer discussion, the underlying challenge was the same. Data is growing faster than the infrastructure and processes used to move it. The organisations that can eliminate these bottlenecks will be better positioned to accelerate AI adoption, reduce operational costs, and respond more quickly to new business opportunities. For Riverbed and Oracle, this reinforces a simple but important principle: AI success starts with data mobility. As organisations across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East continue to invest in digital transformation, cloud modernisation, and AI, Riverbed Technology, Inc. remain focused on helping customers move data at the speed their business demands. Shaif Asif is the Regional Sales Director for Riverbed's industry-leading Acceleration portfolio across the EMEA and APJ regions since January 2024. Prior to this he has held several other sales roles at Riverbed, since joining the company in June 2022. Leading a highly-experienced sales team in EMEA and APJ, Shaik has overall responsibility for sales and the execution of Riverbed's go-to-market model for Riverbed's Acceleration solutions which provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Shaik's role involves new business development as well as driving closer engagement with enterprise customers and strategic partners, ensuring its customers receive excellent value and superior business performance from their IT investment. Shaik has over 20+ years' experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Riverbed, he held many sales management roles at IBM in the Storage division. Shaik's personal interests include keeping fit through the gym and cricket and is well known for always having a positive 'can do' attitude. As for topics of interest, Shaik is passionate talking about anything to do with the 'Acceleration' portfolio.

Riverbed has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Employee Experience 2026 Vendor Assessment. The recognition validates Riverbed's Aternity platform, which combines endpoint telemetry, application performance data, network visibility, and employee sentiment in a single environment. IDC highlighted Riverbed's Orion agentic AI framework, introduced in early 2026, noting it embeds AI governance and policy control into the platform foundation. The framework enables organisations to shift from assisted to autonomous operations. Riverbed's Aternity platform surpassed $100 million in annual revenue as of Q1 2026. Product module installs reached 8.9 million in the same quarter, up 40% year-over-year. The platform serves regulated organisations in financial services, government, and healthcare sectors.

Delivering 360° DEX across macOS with Unified Agent. Riverbed's latest release helps simplify endpoint management and prepares IT for AI-powered operations. As digital workplaces continue to expand across macOS environments, IT teams need more than visibility. They need the ability to prevent disruption, scale effortlessly, and continuously deliver exceptional digital experiences. With its latest release, Riverbed takes a major step forward, extending the Unified Agent to macOS, strengthening Aternity's Mac capabilities, and accelerating AI-driven, proactive IT operations. Unified Agent for Mac: simplicity today, platform for what's next. The introduction of the Unified Agent for macOS marks a major milestone in simplifying endpoint management and accelerating innovation delivery. The Unified Agent provides a single, modular platform to deploy, manage, and update Aternity and other Riverbed capabilities, reducing complexity while unlocking faster access to innovation. And just as importantly, it lays the foundation for seamlessly delivering new modules and innovations as they become available. With a single agent, IT teams can deploy Aternity without managing multiple agents, automatically stay current with the latest features without manual overhead, reduce endpoint footprint by consolidating agents, and easily adopt future modules such as NPM+, UC, and more without additional deployment effort. For IT teams, this means faster deployment, simplified lifecycle management, and continuous innovation - without disruption. Advancing Aternity on Mac. Alongside the Unified Agent, Aternity continues to expand its depth and coverage on macOS, bringing enterprises closer to true cross-platform parity. The Aternity Agent for Mac now provides monitoring across device performance, native applications, and web applications, while supporting modern macOS versions and expanding telemetry with disk, VPN, and user context data. These latest enhancements deliver richer device context, broader telemetry, and improved operating system support, empowering IT teams to troubleshoot faster and extend visibility across every endpoint. What's new in this release. This release introduces continued innovation across the Aternity platform, including ongoing delivery of new capabilities through the Unified Agent, improvements to telemetry collection and system stability, enhancements that support automation and AI-driven operations, and Mac-specific updates such as improved Wi-Fi telemetry and remediation script timestamping. Together, these advancements accelerate Aternity's evolution into a unified, AI-ready platform for autonomous IT operations. Why it matters. This isn't just an incremental update. It's a fundamental shift in how IT delivers digital experience. By unifying visibility, simplifying management, and enabling continuous innovation through a single agent, Riverbed helps IT teams move beyond reactive troubleshooting to a prevention-first approach that eliminates disruption before it impacts employees. The result is faster resolution, lower complexity, and a consistently exceptional digital experience across every user, device, and application. With this release, organizations can: * Reduce complexity with a single, unified agent across endpoints * Accelerate innovation without disruption through seamless, continuous updates * Extend 360° visibility across endpoints, applications, and the network And this is just the beginning. Explore Aternity's latest innovations on its product release page and take the next step toward zero-disruption digital experience. Colleen Marinelli is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed where she is responsible for the company's Digital Experience Management products that deliver best-in-class employee and customer experience. Prior to joining Riverbed, Colleen has worked as a product marketer for Dynatrace & VMware, focused on observability and for Tanium, focused on endpoint management & security. Colleen resides in Massachusetts and outside of work, is an avid runner who directs a youth track club for elementary school children.