Riverbed wins 'AIOps Platform of the Year' in 2026 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards program. Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the "AIOps Platform of the Year" award in the 9th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today. As organizations across every industry accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, the ability to deliver frictionless digital experiences has become mission critical. Modern enterprises depend on seamless digital experiences to keep employees productive, business workflows running smoothly, and operations performing at their best, driving greater efficiency, resilience, and business outcomes. The AI Breakthrough Awards program recognizes the world's most innovative companies, technologies, and products in AI. Winners are selected based on criteria such as innovation, performance, functionality, and market impact. This recognition highlights Riverbed's continued leadership in AI-powered IT operations and observability, helping organizations prevent disruption, accelerate resolution, and advance toward autonomous IT through trusted data, intelligent automation, and actionable insights. "While traditional automation is built on a static rulebook, the Riverbed Platform delivering AIOps and AI-powered observability solutions goes further, driving faster, smarter, and more autonomous IT operations without shifting additional burden to employees or IT teams," said Richard Tworek, Chief Technology Officer, at Riverbed. "We're proud to receive this recognition from AI Breakthrough. The future of IT isn't just faster reaction times; it's also about eliminating disruption altogether to improve employee productivity, increase efficiency, accelerate innovation, and move toward autonomous IT." "Riverbed delivers on the promise of AIOps, reimagining what 'good IT' looks like. A seamless digital experience is the foundation of the modern enterprise - whether in the office, at home, day or night," said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. "Riverbed is redefining AIOps for a new era, operationalizing AI through autonomous IT operations that keep employees productive and operations running. Bizpreneurme is pleased to award Riverbed with 'AIOps Platform of the Year'. Bringing together 25+ years of expertise across applications, networks, devices, and clouds with a unified architecture for autonomous IT operations, this achievement builds on the recent announcement of six new Riverbed products and capabilities. These innovations include Riverbed IQ 4.0, the company's unified intelligence layer for autonomous operations; Riverbed Q, a conversational AI interface for IT teams; AI Assurance for AI observability and governance; and new Aternity capabilities, including Replay 2.0, High Frequency Analytics, and APM+, which extend visibility, accelerate root cause analysis, and help organizations proactively prevent disruption before it impacts users. For nearly a decade, the AI Breakthrough Awards have researched, analyzed and recognized the most important advances in artificial intelligence, and this year's field is the strongest yet. Thousands of nominations from over 20 countries poured in across categories, including Agentic AI, Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Robotics, Natural Language Processing and industry-specific AI applications - underscoring the explosive global growth of AI and its importance as the defining technology of its time. About Riverbed Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their user's experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed's open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with its thousands of market-leading customers globally - including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 - Bizpreneurme is empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at riverbed.com Riverbed and certain other terms used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology LLC. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners.

Riverbed recognized in the 2026 Gartner(R) Critical Capabilities for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools. In the 2026 Gartner(R) Critical Capabilities for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools report, Riverbed was ranked #2 across every category, including IT support, endpoint operations, experience analytics, employee enablement, and cost optimization, along with consistent year-over-year score improvement. Riverbed Technology, Inc. believe these results highlight the continued evolution of Riverbed's platform - combining deep visibility, advanced analytics, and automation to address the most critical DEX challenges enterprises face today. Its performance across key use cases. The 2026 Critical Capabilities report evaluates DEX tools across five primary use cases, including IT support, endpoint operations, experience analytics, employee enablement, and cost optimization. Riverbed Technology, Inc. believe Riverbed demonstrated broad strength and balanced performance across all categories, including: * Cost Optimization (highest scoring use case): Supporting more efficient endpoint management and lifecycle decisions through data-driven insights * IT Support: Enabling faster issue resolution and improved support outcomes through enhanced visibility and automation * Endpoint Operations: Driving operational efficiency across complex endpoint environments * Experience Analysis and Employee Enablement: Providing actionable insights into digital experience across users, applications, and devices Riverbed Technology, Inc. feel these results reflect a platform designed to support both operational efficiency and improved employee experience across enterprise environments. Its perspective on year-over-year improvement. In 2026, Riverbed demonstrated year-over-year improvement across all evaluated use cases and the majority of capability areas. Riverbed Technology, Inc. believe these results demonstrate sustained investment in the platform and continued progress across the full DEX lifecycle - from visibility to action. A platform approach to DEX. As organizations evolve beyond point solutions, the ability to unify data, insights, and action across endpoints, network, applications, and infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Riverbed's approach combines: * 360° visibility across endpoints, application, and network performance * Advanced analytics and AI-driven insights * Automation and workflow integration to act on those insights This platform approach enables organizations to move beyond isolated monitoring toward continuous optimization of digital experience at scale. Why Riverbed Technology, Inc. believe Critical Capabilities matters. "Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers. As companion research, Gartner Critical Capabilities notes provide deeper insight into the capability and suitability of providers' IT products and services based on specific or customized use cases."* Together, these perspectives help IT and digital workplace leaders: * Better understand how solutions perform in real-world scenarios * Align product capabilities to business priorities * Make more informed technology decisions Register for its 360° Digital Experience webinar to hear perspectives from industry analysts, Riverbed leaders, and customers - and learn how to detect issues earlier, act faster, and deliver zero disruption at scale. *Gartner, Gartner Magic Quadrant & Critical Capabilities, https://www.gartner.com/en/research/magic-quadrant Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools, Stuart Downes, Dan Wilson, Robin Milton-Schonemann GARTNER and MAGIC QUADRANT are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 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.

Riverbed achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification for its high-security cloud Platform for Government. Riverbed | Published 3 June 2026 Riverbed, the leader in AI-powered Digital Employee Experience (DEX), today announced that the Riverbed Platform for Government has achieved FedRAMP(R) Class D (High) Certification. Riverbed is among the first Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platforms to achieve FedRAMP Class D, the highest certification tier, meeting the federal government's most stringent cloud security standards for protecting sensitive, unclassified data. This Class D designation applies to the Riverbed Platform for Government, which includes Riverbed Aternity for Government and Riverbed NPM+ for Government. The Riverbed Platform for Government is a cloud-delivered DEX solution designed to help federal agencies securely modernise IT operations and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. The platform is purpose-built to deliver full-fidelity data and visibility across endpoints, networks, and applications in the most secure and complex federal environments. Riverbed's pursuit of FedRAMP Class D has been achieved during an era when the U.S. federal government is supporting an accelerated transition from traditional on-premises to cloud-native, SaaS-based systems. The federal government represents one of the largest purchasers of endpoint devices, secure digital workplace technologies, and cybersecurity solutions globally. This critical certification is a major accomplishment and reinforces Riverbed's commitment to supporting the civilian agencies' mission critical operations. "Achieving FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification is a major milestone and reflects our deep commitment to delivering highly secure observability to federal agencies," said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. "With this certification, Riverbed is delivering a platform trusted to meet the government's most rigorous cybersecurity requirements while helping mission-driven agencies gain the operational visibility needed to maintain performance, automate issue resolution, and support critical operations in environments requiring the highest levels of security." The FedRAMP Class D certification represents the highest level of security compliance under the Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Program (FedRAMP), required for cloud systems managing the federal government's most sensitive unclassified data. Just as important, Riverbed uses the same core SaaS code base for both federal and commercial customers. As a result, Riverbed commercial customers directly benefit from the same hardened security architecture, operational controls, compliance processes, and platform rigor required to satisfy some of the most demanding cybersecurity standards in the world. Riverbed's designation enables U.S. civilian agencies to adopt its solutions with confidence while meeting the strictest security controls, including NIST, FIPS, and Executive Order 14028 mandates. Riverbed's unified observability, digital employee experience, and acceleration capabilities equip civilian government agencies with the ability to integrate data, consolidate tools and leverage AI for real-time, actionable insights - delivering improved efficiency and faster problem resolution. Riverbed helps agencies reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), automate remediation workflows, optimise software license utilisation, enable smarter device-refresh decisions, and support Green IT initiatives - while maintaining reliable digital services for federal employees and citizens. By providing a comprehensive operational view of performance for critical applications and end-users, Riverbed enables mission leaders to make timely, informed decisions.