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Techday NZ
14-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Delinea names Alex Thurber to lead global channel expansion
Delinea has appointed Alex Thurber as Senior Vice President of Global Channels to support the company's partner and channel ecosystem strategy. The new leadership appointment brings Thurber's 25 years of experience in sales, channel strategy, and customer success to Delinea's efforts to expand its network of partners worldwide. During his career, Thurber has held senior roles at technology firms including Riverbed Technology, Cisco, McAfee, Pulse Secure, WatchGuard, and BlackBerry. Chris Kelly, President of Delinea, commented on the significance of Thurber's appointment for the company's growth and evolving technology strategy. "Alex's arrival comes at a crucial time as we focus on building partnerships and expanding our client base to fuel Delinea's next phase of growth," said Kelly. "His proven track record in channel strategy and strategic alliances fits perfectly with where we are headed. With AI playing an increasing role in how organisations defend against identity-based threats, Alex's deep expertise will be instrumental in further elevating our partner network to deliver seamless identity security." At Riverbed Technology, Thurber led a variety of go-to-market strategies that contributed to transformation and measurable success. In previous positions, he oversaw global channel sales at Cisco and McAfee, with additional executive leadership appointments at security-focused firms such as Pulse Secure, WatchGuard, and BlackBerry. His positions have emphasised partnership building and the implementation of global channel initiatives. Thurber shared his perspective on joining Delinea at a time when identity security is a growing priority for organisations. "I'm incredibly excited to join Delinea and become part of a team that is deeply dedicated to the success of its partners and customers at a time when identity security is growing in importance," said Thurber. "Delinea's commitment to innovation and its strong emphasis on cultivating channel relationships were key factors that drew me in, and I'm eager to contribute to driving the business toward continued success." Delinea has recently advanced its machine learning and AI portfolio, launching new capabilities intended to help partners and their clients safeguard AI applications while maintaining compliance and organisational productivity. The company states that its strategic focus includes the secure integration of AI for clients and partners and aims to provide tools that organisations need to reduce the threat posed by compromised identities. The appointment of Thurber is part of Delinea's response to what it describes as the increasing impact of AI on identity security. The company's current strategy is focused both on growing its global channel partner base and on delivering technology designed to provide adaptive, centralised authorisation for both human and machine identities across multiple infrastructures. Follow us on: Share on:
Channel Post MEA
08-02-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Riverbed Launches Smart OTel for Better Insights and Decision-Making
Riverbed announced the general availability of Riverbed Smart OTel (OpenTelemetry), a game-changing approach to OpenTelemetry, delivering the right data at the right time for better insights and decision-making. Available as part of the Riverbed Platform, Smart OTel supports Riverbed Aternity and Network Observability solutions, as well as third-party applications. Today, IT teams are drowning in vendor-specific dashboards, fragmented data, and endless alerts. Despite more observability and visibility, critical insights remain buried. To simplify troubleshooting, IT teams using OTel often build custom dashboards to unify data sources. However, rather than consuming and parsing every metric, what IT really needs is for business-critical issues to surface precise data instantly for faster action. Unlike traditional OpenTelemetry solutions, Smart OTel leverages platform-level data collection for smarter analytics, automation and troubleshooting. With Smart OTel, once an event or alert is triggered, the patented Riverbed Data Store surfaces only pertinent data required for that specific event or business use case, and exports that data to any standard OTel collector. Customers can also leverage Riverbed AI and AI automations to further process the data prior to exporting, adding even more precision filtering and decision capability. Additionally, Smart OTel, allows IT to ingest, process, and export any third-party data via OTel, unlocking new levels of flexibility and control in IT operations. 'Customers are tired of getting massive data streams of raw telemetry, where it's incumbent upon them to try to sort through the clutter and figure out what happened,' said Richard Tworek, CTO, Riverbed Technology. 'Riverbed has taken a different and game-changing approach to OpenTelemetry with our Smart OTel solution. Rather than collecting an overwhelming amount of raw data, Smart OTel works at the Platform level, leveraging the Riverbed Data Store, AI, and automation to give IT teams precisely the right data at the right time using the OTel open standard, delivered to the tool of their choice. This approach enables organizations to fix business-critical issues fast.' 0 0
