Jeff Puffenberger, formerly senior director of the state, local and education practice at Riverbed, has been promoted to vice president for the U.S. public sector group of the digital performance software provider. The 25-year enterprise technology veteran will oversee work with Riverbed’s work with federal, state and local government customers in …

Rebecca Hazard, former vice president and associate general counsel at Riverbed, has been named general counsel and corporate secretary of the information technology firm. She will oversee legal and trade compliance functions in her role as general counsel, the company said Monday. In her previous capacity, she led a global team focused …

Dan Smoot, former executive vice president of global partner sales at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has joined Riverbed Technology as chief customer officer at the San Francisco-based information technology provider. Riverbed said Wednesday Smoot will oversee the company’s global support and renewal programs, professional services, education, customer success management and vertical offerings in his new …

Paul Mountford, formerly senior vice president and chief sales officer at Riverbed Technology, has been selected to succeed the retiring Jerry Kennelly as CEO of the San Francisco-based digital platforms provider. Riverbed said Tuesday Kennelly, who will retire after 16 years at the helm, will serve in an advisory capacity …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 9, 2018 — Davis Johnson, vice president of Riverbed Technology‘s U.S. public sector business, has said network modernization should be aligned with agency efforts to migrate to the cloud to help technology leaders set up policies across networks and determine effects on network performance, ExecutiveBiz reported …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2017 — Davis Johnson, vice president of U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said network modernization should be a priority for federal agencies as they pursue an updated information technology infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “An updated, modern approach, like a software-defined wide-area network, provides a solution that …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 6, 2017 — Davis Johnson, vice president for Riverbed Technology‘s public sector business, has said network optimization should be a key priority of federal agencies as they work to comply with the White House’s cybersecurity executive order, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 30. He wrote in a guest …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 — Riverbed Technology has showcased its software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms for the cloud at Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) Public Sector Summit held this week in Washington, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Included in Riverbed’s exhibit were the SteelConnect SD-WAN technology and the SteelCentral visibility suite’s AppInternals and Aternity …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 30, 2017 — Riverbed Technology has secured Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ for its wide-area network optimization technology offering for federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday the SteelHead CX version 9.1.4 works to address network security issues with network traffic management, end-to-end user experience and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 — A new Riverbed Technology survey has revealed that a majority of federal employees believe latency issues due to bandwidth-intensive applications negatively affect agency productivity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. One in three federal employee respondents have stated that agencies take more than 24 hours to …