Fortinet Earns 2008 Ingram Micro U.S. Best New Vendor Award of Excellence
October 23 2008 - 12:00PM
Marketwired
Fortinet� -- the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat
management (UTM) solutions -- today announced that it has been
named the 2008 Best New Vendor by Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the
world's largest technology distributor. Ingram Micro selected
Fortinet for this Vendor Award of Excellence based on the company's
strong channel affinity and unwavering commitment to partner
enablement, which has since resulted in double-digit quarterly
revenue growth for Fortinet's integrated security solutions.
"Fortinet has had a banner year with Ingram Micro -- we hit the
ground running with a new channel partner program and have really
focused our efforts around partner enablement and recruitment,"
said Ken Bast, vice president of vendor management, Ingram Micro
U.S. "As the winner of Ingram Micro's 2008 Best New Vendor Award,
Fortinet joins an elite group of channel-friendly IT manufacturers
that are committed to delivering industry-leading technology to our
solution providers."
Fortinet began working with Ingram Micro in the fourth quarter
of 2007 to help strengthen its distribution channel and expand the
company's reseller base. According to Bast, demand and revenues for
Fortinet's integrated security appliances over the last year have
grown at a healthy, double-digit rate. In addition, Fortinet's
partner recruitment efforts have continued to soar as a result of
the companies' close collaboration in building a seamless
transition for existing partners and the immediate engagements to
recruit new partners.
"This has been an unparalleled year in Fortinet's channel
organization, and Ingram Micro has been instrumental in helping us
grow our partner base and strengthen our position in the high-end
enterprise market," said Mike Valentine, vice president of
America's Channel Sales for Fortinet. "Over the past year, Fortinet
has invested in marketing and market development resources with
Ingram Micro to ensure a successful launch. Together, we have been
able to streamline and expand Fortinet's channel sales distribution
model, and we look forward to continued successes in 2009 and
beyond."
Ingram Micro's Manufacturer Awards of Excellence recognize the
distributor's leading and emerging technology manufacturers and
software developers for outstanding IT channel performance and
partnership, as well as achievements against measurable objectives,
such as revenue, profitability, marketing programs, solution
provider support and services.
The FortiGate� appliance is the flagship product in Fortinet's
network security portfolio. Accelerated by security-specific ASICs,
the FortiGate appliance integrates 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 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.
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.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro
creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and
resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics
services, technical support, financial services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company serves more than 140
countries and is the only global broad-based IT distributor with
operations in Asia. For more information, please see:
http://www.ingrammicro.com.
Copyright � 2008 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols
� and (TM) denote respectively federally registered trademarks and
unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and
affiliates, including, but not limited to, the following
trademarks: Fortinet, Other trademarks belong to their respective
owners. Fortinet has not independently verified the data attributed
to third parties herein, such as statements herein by Ingram Micro
or attributable to Ingram Micro.
Media Contact: Kim Nguyen Fortinet, Inc. (408) 486-7819
knguyen@fortinet.com
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