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New Distribution Partner Supports Fortinet Strategy to Increase Enterprise Market Penetration
HONG KONG - 3 September 2008
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced the appointment of B & Data Technology Co. Ltd. as its new enterprise-focused security distributor in Hong Kong and China. Founded in 2001, B & Data provides system solutions, network security products, installation, training and after-sales support, and is a distributor for many leading technology vendors.
The appointment of B & Data comes at a time when organizations, including large enterprises, are embracing a consolidated, multi-layered network security approach that is cost effective without sacrificing performance and security. To take advantage of this growth, Fortinet is focusing sales and marketing efforts on the enterprise market, especially in the financial services, healthcare and public sectors.
B & Data Technology will distribute Fortinet's comprehensive line of FortiGate® multi-threat appliances with a focus on the FortiGate-3000 and 5000 Series, which are ideally-suited for large enterprises and service providers due to their availability, scalability and ultra high performance. Fortinet's consolidated security line of FortiGate appliances includes a comprehensive range of products to fit the needs of businesses and enterprises of all sizes.
"The appointment of B & Data is an important step for Fortinet as the company moves to capitalize on the success achieved in the mid-sized and high-end markets by leveraging B & Data's strength and established relationships with enterprise organizations," said Jens Andreassen, vice president of sales, Fortinet Asia Pacific. "The appointment of B & Data also means that Fortinet is now better positioned to address and gain traction in key vertical markets in Hong Kong and China."
FortiGate high-performance appliances are designed to meet the most stringent requirements for performance and reliability, and include redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans to minimize single-point failures, and also support active/active redundant fail-over for uninterrupted service. The high capacity, reliability and easy management of FortiGate units make them natural choices as the cornerstone of an enterprise or service provider's security infrastructure.
Fortinet's FortiGate-5000 series integrate multiple security services into a modular and extensible chassis-based platform and offers the ultimate in performance scalability and interface flexibility, including optional hardware-accelerated 10-Gigabit Ethernet support. The FortiGate-3000 Series appliance-based platforms offer extreme levels of performance and flexibility in an appliance form factor. The series is designed especially for large enterprise and service provider networks, including high-speed network core and data center applications. Both the FortiGate 3000 and 5000 series have multiple models of varying capacity and scalable modular expansion capabilities.
Fan Ting Kwok, Louis, Chief Executive Officer, B & Data, said, "As the leader in its segment, Fortinet products are especially appealing to enterprises and organizations seeking protection from blended threats with state-of the-art technology for enhanced security and performance. By teaming up with Fortinet, B & Data now offers enterprises security solutions from a best-of-breed vendor."
About B & Data Technology Co., Ltd (http://www.bdata.com.hk)
B & Data Technology Co., Ltd was founded in 2001. Headquartered in Hong Kong, B & Data has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu. Over the past seven years, B & Data has yielded outstanding results. It has become the China and Hong Kong distributor for a number of renowned Internet security, application optimization and storage solution vendors.
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 VPN, SSL VPN, Network IPS, and Anti-spam. Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. In Asia, Fortinet has offices in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo.
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