Hong Kong, Jul 1, 2010 – ACW Distribution has announced a new partnership with Riverbed Technology who provides the industry's leading WAN Optimization solutions to complex enterprise application, network, aAnAnd storage challenges.  The well-known industry brand name will provide world class WAN optimization, server consolidation and virtualization solutions that enable organizations to bridge WAN proximity gaps and increase performance of critical business applications.

“The addition of Riverbed WAN optimization solutions to ACW’s existing portfolio of data security & data storage makes ACW a complete IT solution provider,” said Mr. Appleton Yuen, Regional Technical Director of ACW Distribution. “Riverbed’s unique value propositions of accelerating performance and enhancing user productivity while cutting IT cost will resonate strongly with our reseller customers looking to address WAN performance pain points for their customers.”

“This partnership is a significant milestone in growing the business in the region. ACW’s well-established channel infrastructure and market presence in Hong Kong will allow Riverbed to work more efficiently with our resellers and customers at this critical juncture where we continue to see tremendous market demands for our award winning WAN optimization solutions,” said Maurice Tsui, regional sales director for Greater China for Riverbed Technology.

Riverbed’s wide-area network (WAN) optimization solutions help to improve remote and mobile employee productivity and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility, while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. By speeding up applications, Riverbed enables companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.

Riverbed WAN optimization also enables strategic initiatives such as consolidating to private clouds. Whether an organization is focused on consolidating file servers, email servers, SAN or NAS devices, or remote tape backup libraries, accelerated performance could be five to fifty times and reduces WAN bandwidth utilization, typically by 60 to 95%.

About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed is available at www.riverbed.com.

About ACW Distribution
ACW Distribution (HK) Limited is a Value-Added Distribution corporation for leading Enterprise Solutions in the Asia-Pacific region since 1986. We create IT solutions by integrating the "Best-of-Breed" products in the market and delivering them to the end user via an extensive network of trained and certified channel partners in the region. With over 20 years presence in the market, we are more dedicated and experienced in distributing an extensive family from generic to enterprise solutions in order to ensure swift adaptability for your business.

For more information, please visit www.acw-group.com or contact us at enquiry@acw-group.com.hk.