Riverbed

More than 16,000 organisations worldwide depend on Riverbed to understand, optimise and consolidate their IT infrastructure, through solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data.

As IT organisations embark on strategic initiatives to virtualise, consolidate and migrate workloads into cloud environments, users are moved farther from their data, and slow applications, file transfers and inefficient websites negatively impact the performance of these initiatives. Riverbed transforms IT performance by providing solutions spanning wide are network (WAN) optimisation, application-aware network performance management (NPM), application delivery, web content optimsation (WCO), and cloud data protection for backup, archive and disaster recovery. By providing the broadest portfolio of performance solutions that deliver anywhere, any application optimisation, Riverbed enables organisations to increase productivity and efficiency, while enhancing business resilience and controlling costs.

As Riverbed's EMEA Partner of the Year in 2011, the only UK Riverbed Diamond Partner and the first UK RASP (Riverbed Authorised Support Partner), Teneo is qualified to the highest possible levels to give its customers the best quality of service for their investment. Read the RASP Datasheet for more information. Riverbed solutions are also available as a Managed Riverbed Steelhead Service through Teneo. With offices in the UK, USA and Asia Pacific region, Teneo has global engineering reach and over 1500 customers worldwide.

Teneo is helping organisations to realise massive benefits from their IT projects this year, specifically around the following strategic objectives:

  • Cost Cutting – Cut WAN traffic up to 95%, keep WAN costs flat
  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) – Improve RTO & RPO by up to 90%, protect data, see faster backups
  • Application Performance – Enable 10x, 25x, 50x faster applications over the WAN
  • Collaboration – Share gigabytes of data globally in just seconds
  • Web Acceleration - Speed up and control website and web application delivery by 50x
  • Cloud Computing – Make private & public clouds feel local to remote users
  • Consolidation – Eliminate or virtualise remote servers & infrastructure
  • Virtualisation – Move virtual machines up to 50x faster
  • Network Performance Management – Proactively reduce mean time to find performance issues by 85%

Teneo has more Riverbed customers than any other UK partner with thousands of Riverbed Steelhead appliances maintained in the field. Many of our customers came to us in their second year of maintenance in search of service excellence.

What Makes Teneo Riverbed’s Partner Of Choice?















  • Teneo received the Riverbed Technology EMEA Partner of the Year 2011 Award (above), presented at Riverbed Sales Kick Off 2012, the Company’s annual sales and partner conference, on January 11 in San Francisco
  • Our core business is Riverbed. We’ve been delivering Riverbed services since 2004
  • All our engineers are fully trained by Riverbed
  • We invest heavily in technical support, built on Riverbed methodology. Our 1st & 2nd Line support is run to Riverbed standards
  • We innovate around Riverbed’s technology, providing managed services for Riverbed Steelheads, Steelhead Mobile, CMC and Cascade
  • We measure our Riverbed customer satisfaction stringently
  • We are holders of the following additional awards from Riverbed Technology: 2010: Significant Sales Achievement Northern Europe, 2009: Significant Sales Achievement Northern Europe, 2008: Northern European Reseller of the Year, 2007: EMEA Reseller of the Year
  • We also have relationships with Riverbed Services Platform (RSP/VSP) partners VMware & Infoblox to help you leverage as much value as possible from your Riverbed estate
Teneo RASP Award Presentation




Teneo receives RASP award at Riverbed Accelerate 2010, Las Vegas

L-R Scott Downie (Riverbed), Piers Carey (Teneo), Marc Sollars (Teneo) and Colin Mead (Riverbed)





Riverbed Steelhead ROI

A recent IDC study found that Riverbed Steelhead typically gives a return on investment of 457% and payback in 6.9 months (including time to deploy, based on initial and annual investments compared with the benefit over three years).


Riverbed 3 Year Benefits