Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Fortinet Heightens Security Services, Debuts FortiGate-100D

By Raju Shanbhag TMCnet Contributor

Small or medium businesses often need to improve their network security while managing tight budgets. They must also keep their network simple while installing a growing list of security technologies to protect against constantly evolving threats and satisfy regulatory requirements. Fortinet (News - Alert) claims to understand the problems these companies face, and has provided products and solutions to meet their demands.

Fortinet recently introduced a multi-threat security appliance catering to the demand for flexibility in deployment for small- to medium-sized businesses and branch offices of large companies. Named FortiGate-100D, the new product combines various attack recognition and prevention technologies and helps smaller networks protect users, data and systems.

The FortiGate-110D series offers combined, fully integrated network security for small and medium companies, branch offices of large firms and service provider customer premise equipment (CPE) applications.

It provides features such as enhanced security throughput, high port density and ease of management, allowing the customer to install enterprise-class security. An integrated set of important security technologies safeguards all of the customer’s applications and data, the company stated in a press release.

“The FortiGate-100D is a strategic product because it intersects the small-to-medium business and large enterprise branch office markets where we are seeing significant demand," said Michael Xie, chief technology officer with Fortinet. "These markets are looking for very high performance network security solutions that can grow in lockstep with their fast changing business requirements. At the same time, they're looking for a cost-effective and simple solution to deploy security that doesn't require high administrative overhead.”

TMC’s (News - Alert) Nathesh reported last year that the company unveiled consolidated security appliances for the mid-range enterprise market, and enhanced its price/performance leadership in the market segment, including enterprise customers, application service providers (ASPs) and software-as-a-service (SaaS (News

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