Juniper Networks, Inc. announced the appointment of Diwakar Dayal as manager, emerging technologies, India.
Dayal, based in Bangalore, will drive emerging technology sales activities of Juniper in India, including technical operations and business development. The emerging technology team pioneers technology solutions like application acceleration, network access control, intrusion detection and prevention technologies.
Dayal's role includes market education and solutions design. Dayal's new role would be effective February 2007.
"According to Gartner, approximately 80 percent of enterprise employees now work from a branch office, a trend that is driving customer demand for more features, bandwidth and quality in their branch networks," says Nagendra Venkaswamy, Juniper's managing director, India and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) subregion.
"Diwakar's role is a new one at Juniper, created to serve the growing interests in the Indian market for branch office solutions that combine robust protection from both external and internal threats with strong networking capabilities.", says Venkaswamy.
A number of major Indian banks and other businesses will use Juniper's WAN acceleration and network access technologies for data replication and branch network acceleration, to meet regulatory and compliance requirements for mandating tight control of access to sensitive assets.
Juniper claims that being an eight-year veteran in the security industry, Dayal formerly held business development roles with Datacraft India, where he was instrumental in growing security products, consulting and managed services business groups. He was also with Verisign and Wipro Net, where he held sales and pre-sales roles and worked with corporate clients such as Wipro, Infosys and Mphasis.
