Company Description: Riverbed Technology, Inc. provides solutions to the fundamental problems of wide-area distributed computing in the United States and internationally. It offers Steelhead appliances consisting of its Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), a proprietary software embedded on a general purpose hardware computing platform. The company’s Steelhead products enable its customers to improve the performance of their applications and access to their data across wide area networks (WANs) by increasing transmission speeds. Steelhead appliances address the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments to large headquarters and datacenter locations. Riverbed also provides Central Management Console, a complementary product designed to manage Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying, configuring, monitoring, reporting, and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances. In addition, the company offers Interceptor, a product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in data center environments. Further, it offers Steelhead Mobile, a software designed for use on mobile worker laptop computers or desktop computers in locations with very few employees. Riverbed serves customers operating in manufacturing, finance, technology, government, architecture, engineering and construction, professional services, utilities, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, media, and retail industries. The company sells its products and support directly through its sales force and indirectly through distribution partners, including value-added resellers. Riverbed Technology, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Our Analysis: The shares of Riverbed Technologies, Inc. 'RVBD' moved sharply higher yesterday on significantly heavier than normal trading volume. In the process they completed a "cup pattern" with a measured move to our stated price target of $32.52/share. I see downside support on the shares of 'RVBD' @ $25.47/share, and have set my stops accordingly @ $25.07/share.