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"Silicon Valley" is used in the title to describe where the IT Administrator that the article is about is located.

Similar to "Florida man"

I like where this is going...

"Silicon Valley Man found doing insider trading with buddies."

"Silicon Valley Man is pumping the blood of the youth through his veins."

"Florida man" is largely due to Florida's extremely aggressive open records laws making the tawdry details of every nutball's minor arrest instantly public.

What's Silicon Valley's excuse?

You misunderstand my comment.

Using a location before the words "man" or "woman" implies that the man or woman is from that location.

When I say "Chicago woman makes thirty pizzas for homeless shelters", you wouldn't ask about the relevance of the word 'Chicago' because it adds to your understanding of the woman.

I, for one, know what Silicon Valley is but have never heard of Palo Alto Networks before. So the title as written is much more meaningful to me.

The friends were in SV but did not work for Palo Alto Networks.