Riverbed announces certified training to build skills in digital performance  

Dan Smoot, Chief Customer Officer at Riverbed.

Riverbed, announced the availability of the Riverbed Certified Performance Engineering Programme RCPE, 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 Programme focuses on building career skill sets and capabilities in digital performance to enable significant business results and outcomes across different roles in an organisation and at differing levels of technical experience. The Programme 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 new Riverbed Certified Performance Engineering RCPE Programme 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,” said Dan Smoot, Chief Customer Officer at Riverbed.

“The programme is part of our larger customer success and partner strategy that when put into practice, enable significant business results and outcomes. Our goal is to build expertise that takes advantage of long term and successful digital performance management strategies that solve the challenges of the modern day enterprise.”

The framework of the RCPE programme covers the full spectrum of the digital performance engineering and management domain and provides breadth and depth.

It consists of five specialisation tracks:

  • End User Experience and Application Visibility
  • Network and Infrastructure Visibility
  • WAN Optimisation
  • SD-WAN Network Configuration
  • Virtualisation and Storage

For each specialisation track of the RCPE programme, 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 specialising 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 maximising value for businesses. These courses are instructor led and correspond with an RCPE Expert Certification.


Key takeaways

  • For each specialisation track there are four levels of learning depth.
  • It focuses on building capabilities in digital performance to enable significant business results.
  • The framework covers the full spectrum of digital performance engineering.