Riverbed announces RCPE Program for digital performance

Riverbed has announced the availability of the Riverbed Certified Performance Engineering (RCPE) Program designed for all IT professionals — from technical staff to leadership to CXO — involved in managing digital performance across end-user experience, applications, networks, infrastructure, support desk and operations.

The RCPE program focuses on building career skill sets and capabilities in digital performance to enable significant business results and outcomes across different roles in an organization and at differing levels of technical experience. The program delivers a solution-oriented approach on the principles and capabilities of digital performance engineering and management by leveraging a combination of eLearning, instructor-led classes, and hands-on labs that replicate real-world scenarios.

The framework of the RCPE program covers the full spectrum of the digital performance engineering and management domain and provides breadth and depth. It consists of five specialization tracks:

· End-User Experience and Application Visibility

· Network and Infrastructure Visibility

· WAN Optimization

· SD-WAN Network Configuration

· Virtualization and Storage

For each specialization track of the RCPE program, there are four levels of learning depth:

· RCPE Performance Foundations: Designed for all IT professionals and managers including CXXs, and leadership and technical staff. This is a self-paced online training.

· RCPE Associate: Designed for a wide range of IT professionals for maintaining and supporting digital performance solutions including architects, engineers, technical sales, consultants, support staff and operators. These courses are self-paced online training.

· RCPE Professional: Designed for IT professionals specializing in designing, implementing and managing digital services including architects, engineers, consultants, support staff and operations. These courses are instructor-led and correspond with an RCPE Professional Certification.

· RCPE Expert: Designed for IT professionals responsible for the overall delivery of important digital services critical for driving and maximizing value for businesses. These courses are instructor-led and correspond with an RCPE Expert Certification.

Dan Smoot, Chief Customer Officer, Riverbed, says, “The new Riverbed Certified Performance Engineering (RCPE) Program is a first-of-its-kind training curriculum that teaches career-based skills and capabilities in digital performance. It fills a serious gap in the industry for much-needed experts to deliver high-performing applications, networks and infrastructure as companies increasingly look to digital services to improve business value. The program is part of our larger customer success and partner strategy that when put into practice, enable significant business results and outcomes."