Arista Networks Joins Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program to Advance Security Automation Across Data Center and Cloud Netwo...
April 11 2018 - 9:00AM
John Maddison, senior vice president Products and
Solutions, Fortinet “As data center network speeds rapidly
increase, security needs to seamlessly scale to match throughput
demands. By integrating Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS)
and CloudVision® with the broad and automated capabilities of the
Fortinet Security Fabric, our joint customers benefit from greater
scalability, control and cost savings by mapping their security
architecture to network traffic requirements. We are excited to
welcome Arista Networks to our Fabric-Ready program and deliver
continued integrations that advance security management and
automation for our customers’ data center and cloud
networks.”
Ed Chapman, vice president Business Development and
Alliances, Arista Networks “Our open standards-based
approach to cloud networking enables us to extend our software
programmable capabilities to leading technology providers, such as
Fortinet, for security deployment in dynamic environments. The
combination of the Fortinet Security Fabric with the extensibility
of the Arista EOS platform brings the scale, agility and automation
required, across the datacenter enterprise.”
News Summary Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT), a global
leader in broad, automated and integrated cybersecurity solutions,
today announced that Arista Networks, a leading provider of
software-defined cloud networking solutions for large data center,
storage and computing environments, has joined the Fortinet
Fabric-Ready Partner Program.
- This announcement marks an expansion of the existing
relationship between Fortinet and Arista, and further demonstrates
an aligned commitment to securing today’s dynamic data center and
cloud networks.
- By leveraging the programmability of Arista’s EOS with the
Fortinet Security Fabric, Arista DirectFlow Assist enables
scale-out architecture where the switch can offload traffic from
the firewall, allowing network administrators to size the firewall
based on normal traffic patterns rather than having to
over-engineer for exceptional traffic, enabling greater scalability
and cost savings.
- By combining the Fortinet Security Fabric with the
extensibility of the Arista cloud networking solutions, including
the Arista CloudVision Macro-Segmentation Services (MSS), modern
data centers are now able to meet their security needs with even
greater flexibility, control and automation.
Collaborating for Greater Network Security Control,
Automation and Scale Massive scale and growth of services
is effectively driving a re-architecture of the Internet to support
bandwidth-hungry consumers. As data center network speeds increase,
security appliances, such as firewalls, need to scale to match
these new throughput levels. The integration of the Fortinet
Security Fabric with Arista’s EOS, a network operating system with
single-image consistency across hardware platforms and application
extensibility, provides a joint solution that enables greater
security management and automation of scale-out architecture that
best maps to network traffic requirements.
Arista EOS runs on an Arista switch and integrates with the
advanced security capabilities of a Fortinet FortiGate enterprise
firewall to dynamically offload and provide seamless control over
network forwarding to the FortiGate. This integration allows
dynamic security policies to be applied in the network, enabling
data centers to meet their security needs with greater scale and
performance.
Additionally, the Arista Networks’ CloudVision MSS will
integrate with FortiManager to automate advanced security service
insertion for data centers. MSS provides a flexible,
software-driven network service to insert FortiGate and other
security components into the path of traffic, regardless of whether
the service device or workload is physical or virtual. By working
together, Arista and Fortinet are extending the Fortinet Security
Fabric into hybrid data centers to enable consistent security
policy orchestration and enforcement, combined with
high-performance scalability in order to secure today’s most
elastic and dynamic environments.
Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program: Partnering to
Solve Today’s Security ChallengesThe Fabric-Ready Partner
Program opens the functionality of the Fortinet Security Fabric to
complementary solutions. As part of the program, Arista and
Fortinet will work together to continuously validate technology
integration with the Security Fabric, as well as share roadmaps for
consistent interoperability, and will benefit from joint
go-to-market initiatives.
The Fabric-Ready program enables customers and channel partners
to have greater confidence in their existing technology investments
and Security Fabric offerings knowing that security solutions are
proactively validated and ready for deployment. This integration
reduces deployment times and technical support demands while
delivering enhanced interoperability for more effective and
responsive end-to-end security.
Additional Resources
- Download the joint solution brief to learn more about
the Fortinet and Arista Networks integrated security solution.
- Learn more about the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner
Program.
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About FortinetFortinet (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 340,000 customers trust Fortinet to
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