Riverbed Technology has announced appointment of David Wu as the new Chief Technology Officer. As a member of the Riverbed’s founding team in 2003, Wu was involved in the initial architecture of the award-winning Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization appliance. He has also been the innovator behind the Granite storage delivery solution that offers globally distributed enterprises a new approach to consolidating edge data to the secure data center while delivering local performance access to branch employees.
Jerry Kennelly, CEO, Riverbed, said, “David has been at Riverbed since the company’s inception and throughout that time he has driven the development of all Riverbed products. Under his guidance, Riverbed has grown from one product line to many, and the company’s offerings have expanded to continue to solve tough problems for our customers. As CTO, David will focus on technology innovation that will address the challenges of the new generation of IT.”
David Wu stated, “Riverbed continues to enable organizations to achieve greater levels of IT efficiency and consolidation, helping customers cut costs, increase productivity and collaboration. I look forward to continuing a very positive relationship with our customers to deliver innovation that meets the demand of evolving enterprises.”
Wu was responsible for the advanced development of Whitewater cloud storage appliance that enables customers to seamlessly and securely backup to the cloud.
As the new CTO, Wu will lead more than 800 engineers in the development of new products and drive continued innovation to address the business and IT problems that globally distributed enterprises are grappling with as they transform their data centers.
