Broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs) company, Silver Peak, has appointed 20-year industry veteran Graham Schultz as sales director for Australia and New Zealand.
Schultz previously worked in senior sales and management roles with VMware, Brocade and Tintri Storage across a number of industry segments including software and hardware, cloud, virtualisation, servers, networking, storage and business intelligence.
“This is an exciting time to be joining Silver Peak, as they are the only vendor capable of offering a complete SD-WAN solution that simply and intelligently combines any combination of connectivity types into high-performance virtual WANs that deliver an unmatched user experience edge-to-edge,” Schultz said.
“It’s unrivalled performance, visibility and security, as well as potential to reduce costs by up to 90%, gives us an outstanding foundation for growth and expansion in Australia and New Zealand.”
{loadposition peter}Chris Helfer, senior vice president, worldwide sales for Silver Peak said, “We are pleased to add a seasoned professional in Graham Schultz to head our expanding ANZ team.
“We are quickly establishing market leadership in the hyper growth emerging market for SD-WAN technologies that IDC predicts will grow to an estimated $US6 billion by 2020, and are confident that our Australian/New Zealand team will make an immediate impact on regional sales.”