* Juniper hires new CIO, ops veep
Juniper Networks has appointed Alan Boehme to chief information officer, and Kevin Smith to the post of vice president, operations.
Boehme succeeds Kim Perdikou, who has become vice president and associate general manager of Juniper’s infrastructure business team. Boehme joins Juniper from Best Software.
Smith most recently served as SVP and general manager of Sanmina, and, before that, served in executive roles at Force10 Networks and Redback Networks.