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Fortinet Continues to Gain Traction in the SD-WAN Marketplace by Combining its Industry-Leading Next-Generation Firewall and SD-WAN in an Easy-to-Deploy Integrated OfferingSUNNYVALE, Calif., July 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- John Maddison, SVP of products and solutions at Fortinet News Summary The growing appeal of SD-WAN technologies has caught the attention of the IT world and many are realizing the benefits of efficient cloud adoption, broad application visibility and lowered operating costs. But without the right solution, the speed and agility of SD-WAN can come at the expense of security. To respond to this pervasive industry challenge, Fortinet produced the industry’s first NGFW-centric approach to SD-WAN by tightly integrating SD-WAN functionality into the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall. This approach produces a compelling solution that combines the increased scalability, flexibility, simplicity and cost savings of SD-WAN with industry-leading security protection. Hundreds of customers from around the world have already chosen Fortinet for their secure SD-WAN solution. Amongst this group, Fortinet has seen three distinct use cases emerge that tackle the most difficult challenges in the distributed enterprise branch. In response to customer feedback, the latest updates to the FortiOS operating system have directly addressed these issues. Use Case #1: Digital Transformation at Enterprise Branch Use Case #2: Reduce WAN OPEX Spending While Maintaining High Application Performance Use Case #3: Consolidation of Networking and Security Fortinet takes a customer- and partner-centric approach to improving its SD-WAN functionality and allowing customers to rapidly adopt cloud applications while keeping security a top priority. Through recent updates to the FortiOS operating system that make SD-WAN a native component of the Fortinet Security Fabric and the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, Fortinet gives customers the right tools for undergoing digital transformation without the security risks inherent in other solutions that don’t take a security-first approach. Three distinct use cases and hundreds of satisfied customers prove that Fortinet has the security and networking expertise to tackle the industry’s toughest challenges in implementing SD-WAN. Supporting Quotes “As the largest group of supermarket chains in The Netherlands with more than 1,000 branches and 10 datacenters, we faced a significant challenge in adopting digital transformation and achieving cloud application performance without compromising on security. We chose Fortinet’s cutting edge secure SD-WAN technology to allow us to centrally manage our networking and security solutions, while also providing SSL inspection for a seamless WAN transformation. We like the simplicity of extending Fortinet’s SD-WAN solution to include LAN at each of our stores and the ability to manage all WAN and LAN devices through a single-pane-of-glass. This capability was a gamechanger, providing us with both flexibility and security at each layer. “As a leader in the distributed enterprise market, Fortinet deeply understands the needs of customers looking to deploy the newest WAN initiatives, such as SD-WAN. Fortinet has been evolving SD-WAN as an industry-leading feature of its FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall to offer a compelling combination of SD-WAN and security in a single appliance. This significantly increases business agility, simplifies customer deployment and provides single-pane-of-glass management for better visibility and protection.” “As a Fortinet Partner of the Year and leading supplier of technology solutions, we work closely with Fortinet to provide strategic and technical guidance to our customers undergoing digital transformation. Fortinet’s secure SD-WAN solution provides increased scalability, flexibility, simplicity and cost savings in a single appliance that marries SD-WAN and security. Fortinet’s security-first approach to SD-WAN is backed by third-parties and independent tests as a leading solution, making Fortinet the right choice for customers undergoing digital transformation.” Additional Resources
About Fortinet Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 350,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs. Copyright © 2018 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and common law trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiCare, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiSIEM, FortiSandbox, FortiWiFi, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, FortiWeb, FortiADC, FortiWAN, and FortiCloud. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements or certifications herein attributed to third parties and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing herein constitutes a warranty, guarantee, contract, binding specification or other binding commitment by Fortinet or any indication of intent related to a binding commitment, and performance and other specification information herein may be unique to certain environments. This news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve uncertainties and assumptions, such as statements regarding technology releases among others. Changes of circumstances, product release delays, or other risks as stated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, located at www.sec.gov, may cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in this press release. If the 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, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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