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Riverbed Technology, Inc. is an American IT company that develops products to improve application performance across WANs, a technique known as WAN Optimization. Its products reduce latency and bandwidth constraints in delivering applications via WANs to multiple locations across long distances. It also develops products to support network and application performance management. Riverbed has its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and more than 2,500 employees in 73 offices around the world. The company’s 25,000+ customers include 97% of both the Fortune 100 and the Forbes Global 100. In December 2014, the company agreed to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo,〔http://www.thomabravo.com/2014/12/15/thoma-bravo-agrees-to-take-riverbed-private-for-3-6b/〕 and the transaction was completed in April 2015. ==History== Riverbed Technology was founded May 23, 2002, by Jerry Kennelly, CEO, and Steve McCanne, CTO. The original name of the company was NBT (Next Big Thing) Technology, which was renamed to Riverbed Technology in 2003. Kennelly and McCanne led internal development of the first SteelHead appliances, the 500, 1000, 2000, and 5000 models, and the first SteelHead was shipped in April 2004 to Environment Canada. Riverbed stock began trading on NASDAQ September 21, 2006.〔http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RVBD〕 In February 2014, the US hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation made a $3.36 billion offer to acquire Riverbed.〔http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-25/elliott-boosts-offer-to-acquire-riverbed-to-21-a-share-from-19〕 On December 15, 2014 Riverbed announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by leading private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo. The deal closed in April 2015.〔https://thomabravo.com/2015/04/24/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-riverbed-technology/〕 Riverbed has also opened up an off-site location at Research Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in order to take advantage of high-caliber talent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riverbed Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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