Industry Expert Kristian Thyregod to Drive RPM Business Sales Across EMEA
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - 1st October 2013 - Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, today announced the appointment of Kristian Thyregod, who joins as vice president of sales, for the Riverbed Performance Management (RPM) Business Unit in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Thyregod assumes responsibility for all sales aspects of the Riverbed® RPM business in EMEA.
With the acquisition of OPNET Technologies, Inc, Riverbed Performance Management solutions include the Cascade application-aware network performance management (NPM) and OPNET application performance management (APM) product portfolios, to deliver a unique combination of end-user experience monitoring, transaction tracing, deep component monitoring, and IT infrastructure/network management. Riverbed provides the IT function with the visibility and actionable insight to help deliver the application performance that users and businesses demand.
Willem Hendrickx, senior vice president of EMEA sales, at Riverbed said, "Kristian comes to Riverbed with extensive experience and a successful track record selling enterprise management software solutions - both direct and indirect. In addition, Kristian has been running global channel sales and channel marketing functions, and he will play a key role in driving continuous growth and expansion of our RPM business in EMEA."
Thyregod joins Riverbed from CA Technologies, where he was responsible for running the EMEA solution sales organization for both New Enterprise and Growth Market segments. Prior to this, Thyregod held senior management positions at Navision (ERP) before moving to IBM and later EMC. Thyregod also holds board-of-director and advisory board positions at Portalized, Debriefing software and santoku management, LLC.
Thyregod comments, "The Riverbed Performance Management portfolio, now with the inclusion of OPNET, provides for an unparalleled offering to companies and organizations seeking to maximize the benefits of customer-centric IT. It's a privilege to be part of such a dynamic organization and I am looking forward to driving continuous growth and adoption of RPM solutions across EMEA."
Earlier this year the Riverbed Performance Management solution was placed in the Value Leader position of the EMA Radar App-Aware Network Performance Management 2013. It achieved the highest aggregate score in total ANPM functionality for its richly integrated, scalable and proactive application and network performance monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting solutions. Riverbed also placed as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
More than 22,000 organizations worldwide depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure, through solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data. As IT organizations embark on strategic initiatives to virtualize, consolidate and migrate workloads into cloud environments, users are moved farther from their data. Slow applications, slow file transfers and inefficient websites can negatively impact the performance and success of these initiatives. Riverbed transforms IT performance by providing solutions spanning WAN optimization, storage delivery, application-aware network performance management, application performance management, application delivery controllers, web content optimization (WCO), and cloud data protection. By providing the broadest portfolio of performance solutions that deliver anywhere, any-application optimization, Riverbed enables organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, while enhancing business resilience and controlling costs.
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Riverbed delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed is available at www.riverbed.com.
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