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Company Also Leads Asia Pacific in Unified Threat Management Factory Revenue
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 18, 2007
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that new IDC research data confirms that for the third consecutive quarter, the company ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory revenue and the Asia Pacific UTM leader based on factory revenue, both for Q3 2007. According to this data, Fortinet has also become the leader in two enterprise UTM price bands ($10K-$24.9K and $25K-$49.9K). Additionally, IDC data confirmed that Fortinet saw healthy growth in both factory revenue and units shipped in a high-end UTM price band ($100K-$249.9K), which typically represents sales to large enterprises and service providers.
Data in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, December 2007 confirmed:
- Fortinet is the overall leader in UTM factory revenue for Q3 2007
- Fortinet is the overall leader in UTM factory revenue for Asia Pacific and Western Europe
- Fortinet is the No. 1 worldwide vendor in the two enterprise UTM price band segments ($10K-$24.9K and $25K-$49.9K) for both factory revenue and units shipped
- Fortinet grew significantly in a high-end ($100K-$249.9K) price band for both factory revenue and units shipped
Of particular significance to the APAC region is Fortinet's UTM leadership at the country level, as highlighted below:
- Fortinet is the overall leader of global vendors in UTM factory revenue in Korea, India, Malaysia and Singapore
- In Hong Kong, Fortinet leads one enterprise UTM ($10K-$24.9K) price band in units shipped and a key low-end price band ($1K-$2.9K) in factory revenue and units shipped
- In India, Fortinet leads and is the only vendor in one enterprise UTM ($25K-$49.9K) price band for units shipped and factory revenue, and is the leader in the other enterprise UTM ($10K-$24.9K) price band for units shipped
- In China, Fortinet leads in the two enterprise ($10K-$24.9K and $25K-$49.9K) price bands for units shipped
- In Korea, Fortinet leads the low-end ($0-$0.9K) price band in factory revenue and units shipped, and the $3K-$5.9K price band for factory revenue and units shipped overall. It also leadsthe large enterprise ($10K-$24.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped amongst the global vendors
- In Malaysia, Fortinet leads the mid-enterprise UTM ($6K-$9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped, it also leads in one high-end price band ($25K-$49.9K) for factory revenue and units shipped
- In Singapore, Fortinet leads in one enterprise UTM ($10K-$24.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped
- In Taiwan, Fortinet leads in the low-end ($0-$0.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped, one enterprise UTM ($25K-49.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped, and in the high-end ($50K-$99.9K) price band for factory revenue and units shipped
"While historically UTM adoption in APAC was lead by small to medium businesses, we continue to witness a sharp increase in large enterprise adoption of Fortinet's UTM solutions," said Mr. Jens Andreassen, vice president of APAC sales for Fortinet. "We are pleased to see that our efforts to provide enterprise-class integrated security products, support and services to the large enterprise have enabled our growth and helped to secure our market share leadership."
IDC defines UTM security appliance products as those that integrate multiple security features within one device, including network firewalling, network intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), and gateway anti-virus. Fortinet takes UTM further through its family of award-winning FortiGate™ multi-threat security systems that integrate eight essential security applications and services -- including firewall, antivirus, virtual private network (VPN), intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping – that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution.
"Market adoption for UTM solutions continues to increase as all-sized businesses realize the security, operational and cost benefits of integrating critical security functions into an appliance," said Mr. Ken Xie, president, founder and CEO of Fortinet. "As evidenced by the latest IDC data, the enterprise UTM price band segment in particular witnessed significant growth in Q3, and Fortinet's share of this market grew as well. This shows that enterprises are recognizing the need for a truly integrated UTM solution to secure both their core networks and their remote offices, and are increasingly turning to Fortinet for their solution."
For more information on Fortinet solutions, please visit:
www.fortinet.com/products.
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 anti-spam -- 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, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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