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Leading Network Security Vendor Honored for Strong Quarterly Growth and Channel Commitment
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 23, 2008
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that it has been named the 2008 Best New Vendor by Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest technology distributor. Ingram Micro selected Fortinet for this Vendor Award of Excellence based on the company's strong channel affinity and unwavering commitment to partner enablement, which has since resulted in double-digit quarterly revenue growth for Fortinet's integrated security solutions.
"Fortinet has had a banner year with Ingram Micro - we hit the ground running with a new channel partner program and have really focused our efforts around partner enablement and recruitment," said Ken Bast, vice president of vendor management, Ingram Micro U.S. "As the winner of Ingram Micro's 2008 Best New Vendor Award, Fortinet joins an elite group of channel-friendly IT manufacturers that are committed to delivering industry-leading technology to our solution providers."
Fortinet began working with Ingram Micro in the fourth quarter of 2007 to help strengthen its distribution channel and expand the company's reseller base. According to Bast, demand and revenues for Fortinet's integrated security appliances over the last year have grown at a healthy, double-digit rate. In addition, Fortinet's partner recruitment efforts have continued to soar as a result of the companies' close collaboration in building a seamless transition for existing partners and the immediate engagements to recruit new partners.
"This has been an unparalleled year in Fortinet's channel organization, and Ingram Micro has been instrumental in helping us grow our partner base and strengthen our position in the high-end enterprise market," said Mike Valentine, vice president of America's Channel Sales for Fortinet. "Over the past year, Fortinet has invested in marketing and market development resources with Ingram Micro to ensure a successful launch. Together, we have been able to streamline and expand Fortinet's channel sales distribution model, and we look forward to continued successes in 2009 and beyond."
Ingram Micro's Manufacturer Awards of Excellence recognize the distributor's leading and emerging technology manufacturers and software developers for outstanding IT channel performance and partnership, as well as achievements against measurable objectives, such as revenue, profitability, marketing programs, solution provider support and services.
The FortiGate® appliance is the flagship product in Fortinet's network security portfolio. Accelerated by security-specific ASICs, the FortiGate appliance integrates essential security applications such as antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. All FortiGate systems are kept up-to-date by Fortinet's FortiGuard® Network, which helps ensure protection against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic and more - around the clock and around the world.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, Network IPS, and Antispam. Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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