Welcoming the new Evangelist

Hello Fans of the Riverbed Blog,

I’m Evan Marcus, and I have just recently joined the Riverbed Marketing Evangelism team.  (Yes, we all know that makes me Evan the Evangelist.  Just laugh now and get it out of your system.)  I’ll be based out of my home office in northern New Jersey.  (Just laugh now and get that out of your system, too.)

What that means is that I’ll be working with Bob Gilbert, Riverbed’s Director of Marketing for Customers, Community, and Evangelism to sing the Gospel of Riverbed.  What that really means is that I’ll be blogging (this is the first of many), vlogging, and speaking at a variety of Riverbed events about what we do, and why everybody needs it so much.  I’ll also be taking a lead role in Riverbed’s Social Media presence (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube), and the Riverbed Community web site, and I will be a very visible face at Riverbed User Group meetings, especially those in the Eastern US. 

I come from a fairly varied technical and communications-oriented background.  Most recently I’ve been a Sales Engineer with some extra writing or speaking duties at a variety of small technology companies including nlyte Software and Archivas Software.  Before all that, I spent 8 years at Veritas Software, where, among other things, I co-wrote and edited four books, including Blueprints for High Availability and The Resilient Enterprise (a book about Disaster Recovery).  With the title “Availability Maven,” I became a speaker at a variety of Veritas conferences and events, and even organized and MC’d their internal engineering conference two straight years. I’ve also been a semi-regular tutorial instructor at the LISA and USENIX conferences for the last 10 years or so.

I have had a lot of exposure to a variety of different technologies, including Unix systems, Windows systems, storage, data center design and capacity planning, networking, discovery, security, and more.  I’ve also developed some interactive web sites in my spare time.

Riverbed is a very exciting place to be, and I am thrilled to be here.  I am consistently impressed by the technology here.  The words I keep hearing are Speed, Scalability, and Simplicity.  It’s obvious to me that that’s more than just words to the people here at Riverbed; that shows in everything I’ve seen since I arrived.

I look forward to meeting you at Riverbed events.  If you see me at a Riverbed event, please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself to me. 

Thank you,

Evan Marcus
evan.marcus@riverbed.com    

Comments

[Online Evangelism]

What a warm welcome to new evangelist out there! Great article here!