Welcome

It is my pleasure to welcome you - our valuable customers and partners - to Accelerate '08, the most comprehensive conference exploring wide-area data services, or WDS, as the solution to many of today's enterprise business challenges. Only here will you uncover the secrets to solving the challenges to the 21st Century distributed and collaborative workplace.

All of us at Riverbed hope you'll take advantage of everything this exciting conference in Barcelona has to offer. What you can learn here will help you to create a more intelligent, network-powered business IT platform that will allow your company to obliterate the cost and inefficiency caused by distance.

Enjoy.

Sincerely,
Jerry M. Kennelly
Chairman and CEO