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Award recognizes best practices and excellence among vendors in the Asia Pacific ICT industry
SINGAPORE; April 16, 2007
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that it has been nominated to be in the running for the 2007 Network Security Vendor of the Year category at the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards.
The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards recognize outstanding performance by companies and individuals in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Asia Pacific. Nominees are evaluated not only on revenue and market share growth in the past year, but also marketing strategies, innovation, breadth of solutions and thought leadership. The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards are held annually and is now into its fourth year.
"Fortinet is a strong leader in its key areas of focus - protection of the gateway and hosts - and has continued to gain mind share in these areas," said Arun Chandrasekaran, industry analyst at global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. "In 2006, Fortinet achieved a much stronger position in the market and is one of the biggest market share gainers, demonstrating the impressive growth that the company has experienced."
"We are very proud and honored to be among the few that have been selected for the Frost & Sullivan Network Security Vendor of the Year award," said Jens Andreassen, Vice President for Asia-Pacific. "The nomination is further proof of our market leading technology and our commitment to our customers."
The recipients will be announced at the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards gala dinner, to be held on June 15, 2007.
About Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com)
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community, by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit
www.awards.frost.com
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and market-leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management 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, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended 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 eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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