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Move to Increase Fortinet Coverage Breadth and Depth in Emerging Market
JAKATA, Indonesia, Jan 20, 2010 - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that EGUADIAN has been appointed as a new distributor for the Indonesian marketplace. The move is to strengthen Fortinets customer and geographical outreach in the archipelagos by recruiting more partners and optimizing Fortinets coverage network in and beyond Jakarta. In addition, the company is also a valued added distributor for Fortinet in Singapore.
According to Ng Yong Chao, regional director at EGUADIAN, ÏOur plan is to partner with Fortinet to increase traction in the government, banking and carrier vertical segments. Fortinet has a comprehensive end-to-end security portfolio, which resonates well with large enterprises. For instance, the company holds key to a brilliant virtualization technology to secure service providers and large enterprises with the use of virtual domains (VDOM). In addition, Fortinets cutting edge technology catering to carriers and enterprises of all sizes, makes it a strong vendor for us to partner.
EGUADIAN will be distributing the full range of Fortinets security solutions including the flagship FortiGate® family of integrated network security appliances, as well as FortiMail™ messaging security, FortiWeb™ application security and FortiDB™ database security products.
Benjamin Teh, regional director for Asia South and Hong Kong at Fortinet, added, ÏThis partnership with EGUADIAN will help to reinforce Fortinets technology innovation focus in the security space. In 2010, our goal is to strengthen our SMB customer base and grow the enterprise/service provider segments in Indonesia. For enterprises to continue their stride forward, security remains a key agenda for both CTOs and IT managers. Fortinet offers a comprehensive, well-considered architecture for enterprises to adopt a security solution that provides superior cost-performance advantage in the competitive climate today. Thus, we look forward to partnering EGUADIAN broaden and deepen our position in the Indonesian marketplace today.
About EGUADIAN (http://www.e-guardian.net/)
Established in 2003, EGUADIAN has evolved to become one of the leading distributors of IT solutions in Asia. Our portfolio of infrastructure & data center consolidation, virtualization, optimization, business continuity, security & risk management helps organizations create an agile IT infrastructure that aligns with their business goals while taking a smarter, and more streamlined approach to help improve service, reduce cost, and manage risk.
About FortiGate
Fortinets FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate core security and network functionalities including firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, application control, data loss prevention, SSL traffic inspection and WAN optimization. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinets FortiGuard® Network, which helps protect 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. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards and are the only security products that are certified in five programs by ICSA Labs for firewall, antivirus, IPSec VPN, network IPS and antispam.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinets flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinets broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.
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About Fortinet(www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world.
Copyright © 2010 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, Fortieporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, Fortiesponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties, such as statements attributed to IDC, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. This news release may contain forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding trends of adoption by large enterprises and the ongoing adoption by MSSPs, carriers and small to medium businesses, that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. isks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in market dynamics, changes in demand for UTM and other solutions, the introduction of new competitive solutions, economic risks and uncertainties, execution risks and uncertainties related, for example, to new product introductions and innovations, and other risk factors set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC, copies of which are available free of charge at the SECs website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Fortinets investor relations department. If the risks or uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the event actual results differ, and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
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