Strategic SaaS deployment and investment enable customers to leverage Riverbed’s industry-leading observability capabilities while supporting data sovereignty within the Kingdom’s borders

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – November 25, 2025 – Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced the launch of its Riverbed Aternity® Cloud solution hosted in-country for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With this development, Riverbed becomes the first technology provider in the Kingdom to deliver a SaaS-based Observability platform with integrated AI capabilities designed to meet Saudi Arabia’s data sovereignty and compliance requirements.

New SaaS offering deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Moves Petabyte-Scale Datasets at Speeds Up to 10X Faster Than Traditional Solutions, Radically Improving Time to Value for Enterprise AI

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – November 4, 2025 – Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability and in data acceleration, today introduced its new Riverbed Data Express Service enabling enterprises to radically accelerate the movement of massive datasets now required to prepare and deploy AI models at scale—reaching data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than current industry solutions —improving a customer’s time to value and lowering costs. Enterprises are racing to build large language models with tens of petabytes of data scattered across data centers, edge environments, and multiple public clouds. Moving this data to AI-optimized GPU clusters often takes months, delaying time-to-value and increasing costs. With the new Riverbed Data Express Service, what once took months can now be completed in days—giving organizations the speed and security of data delivery now required to prosper in the AI era.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – October 10, 2025 – Saudi organisations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) and achieving results that position the Kingdom among one of the most advanced markets in the world, according to a new survey by Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability. Revealed ahead of the company’s participation at GITEX GLOBAL 2025, the Riverbed study The Future of IT Operations in the AI Era unveils that Saudi organisations have increased overall AI investments by approximately 160% year-on-year. Impressively, more than a quarter (26%) of Saudi enterprises invested over US$50 million in AI initiatives last year, compared with an average of 18% across the other markets surveyed.*

Moueen Zahreddine, Senior Regional Director, – GCC, at Riverbed