TOKYO, Japan - July 7, 2009 - Fortinet^® - a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions today announced the appointment of Networld as Fortinets distributor in Japan. Networld Corporation, a distributor specializing in technology infrastructure and solutions, will be marketing and selling Fortinets network security portfolio including its flagship FortiGate® appliances.

As the leading network security vendor, Fortinets FortiGate family of products consolidate security functions including firewall, VPN, antivirus and IPS to significantly reduce operational costs.

Networld is a network infrastructure provider for enterprises and data centres with a focus on virtualization. With deep rooted expertise, the company also integrates IT functions such as data protection, backup/recovery solution for disaster planning/business succession and accelerated/robust network. As data centre optimization gains momentum, along with the increased demand for cloud computing, strategic IT solutions is a booming area with focus on cost reduction and environment issues.

With Fortinet, Networld will be able to strengthen its own value proposition by including security to its existing offerings, namely virtualization, storage, backup and networking. By identifying Ïstrengthened security within virtualization environments as its most important theme, Networld offers necessary components and services to its partners and data center enterprises that construct the cloud environments for next-generation data centers based on virtualization solutions. Sharing technologies and know-how with each other, Fortinet and Networld will be partnering closely to conduct marketing activities to help end users navigate the current cloud security trend.

According to Shoichi Morita, director and president of Networld, ÏThe partnership with Fortinet adds value to Networlds strength by adding virtualized network security solutions to a cloud-centric environment. With the combination Networld and Fortinet in the next generation data centre, customers can benefit from reduced capital and operational costs.

Fortinet and Networld will be partnering closely to conduct marketing activities that will enable end users navigate the current cloud security trends. Driving this activity is a wealth of technical expertise that Fortinet has accumulated over the years in virtualized environments, as well as industry-leading patents in security technology.

In support, Akio Sakamoto, vice president for Far East region at Fortinet added, ÏFortinet has a large portfolio of patents in security virtualization. Our market leadership along with our partnership with Networld will help to evangelize secure virtualized next generation data centres.

Co-partnered promotional details
Products lineup: FortiGate series, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer
Duration: July 7, 2009 onwards
Shipment date: July 14, 2009 onwards
 
The sale prices (excluding tax) are as follows:
Ì£åÛåFortiGate SeriesÌ£åÛåÔ

• Enterprise grade product: FortiGate-3810A base model from ÌøåÀå´9,499,000.
• Mid-enterprise grade product: FortiGate-310B base model from ÌøåÀå´1,709,000.
• Branch-office/SMB tier product: FortiGate-50B bundle model from ÌøåÀå´151,000.

Ì£åÛåFortiManager SystemÌ£åÛåÔ

• FortiManager-100 from ÌøåÀå´379,000.

Ì£åÛåFortiAnalyzer FamilyÌ£åÛåÔ

• FortiAnalyzer-100B from ÌøåÀå´284,000.

To launch the partnership between Fortinet and Networld, a marketing campaign called ÏFortiGate Accelerates will be launched from July 7 to September 30, 2009. The campaign will include the sale of the following product lines: FortiGate, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer product series.

For more information on the campaign, please visit http://www.networld.co.jp/fortinet.

Fortinets FortiGate systems are ASIC-accelerated security appliances that integrate 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 automatically 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.