BANGALORE, USA: Riverbed Technology, an IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced that Gartner has identified Riverbed as leader in its September 2009 report, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide 2Q09".

Riverbed is the WOC (WAN optimization controller) Advanced Platform (AP) worldwide market share leader for 2Q 2009 based on revenue.

According to Gartner’s market share report, Riverbed increased its revenue share by 1.6 percentage points to 32.5 percent. This positions Riverbed with 9.4 percent more market share than the competition.

Eric Wolford, senior vice president, business development and marketing, Riverbed, said: “Enterprises are embarking on strategic IT initiatives to improve overall IT infrastructure performance, including IT centralization, virtualization and data center consolidation. WAN optimization technologies are proving to be a core component to ensure cost avoidance with each of these private cloud initiatives.”