Fortinet
Now Provides Industry’s Broadest Secure Access to Cloud
Environments
Dubai,
UAE: 18th
May, 2014 -
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a global leader in high-performance
network security
-
today announced support for secure access to the Microsoft
Azure cloud platform. As organizations continue to migrate
mission critical applications to the cloud, secure access to
sensitive data and application workloads remains critically
important. Starting today, customers can immediately benefit from a
secure virtual private network (VPN) access to Microsoft’s Azure
cloud offering while leveraging Fortinet’s broad and multi-layered
security technologies across network, application and content
security.
"Microsoft
Azure's cloud scalability, performance and economic benefits make it
a convincing choice for customers wanting to leverage the cloud while
continuing to use existing on-premises infrastructure," said
Venkat Gattamneni, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure,
Microsoft. "These customers require secure VPN access from
office and branch networks to the cloud, and Fortinet’s
next-generation firewall platforms extend on-premises datacenters to
the cloud while enabling security."
All Fortinet FortiGate
security appliances offer full support for VPN access to the
Microsoft Azure Virtual Network service, allowing organizations to
quickly and easily create secure VPN tunnels linking on-premise
networks and cloud environments. In addition, all FortiGate
appliances uniquely deliver centralized management of virtualized and
physical infrastructures through a “single-pane-of-glass”
approach to management.
By
adding support for Microsoft Azure on top of its existing support for
Windows
Server with Hyper-V, Fortinet now delivers the industry’s
broadest range of security solutions for virtualized infrastructures.
"As
we work with customers to extend on-premises infrastructure to the
cloud using Microsoft Azure, we need to ensure both a high level of
security and seamless data access across multiple environments,"
said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and president of Fortinet. "Fortinet
is unique in its ability to deliver powerful threat prevention for
network, email, Web and content across any combination of cloud,
network and virtualized environment."
Microsoft
Azure is rapidly gaining momentum with 57 percent of Fortune 500
enterprises as customers.¹ Azure now accounts for more than 20
percent of the enterprise cloud computing market, a number that is
projected to grow to 35 percent in 2014 according to Forrester
Research, Inc., Analyst James Staten in an April 2013 Bloomberg News
article titled "Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging
Amazon."²
"Microsoft
Azure is clearly a compelling solution for organizations that are
looking to improve and extend availability of their IT services,"
said John Maddison, vice president of marketing for Fortinet. "We
are pleased to work closely with Microsoft to bring the same level of
broad and best-in-class security that companies rely on for private
networks to these growing cloud connections."
Additional
Resources:
For
more information on integrating FortiGate with Microsoft Azure,
please visit: Microsoft
Azure: About VPN Devices for Virtual Network
For
additional information on Microsoft Azure, please visit:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?WT.mc_id=azurebg_us_sem_google_br_top_nontest_trialpage
¹=
Microsoft by the Numbers: The Enterprise Cloud
²=”Microsoft
Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging Amazon,” April 13, 2013,
Bloomberg by Dina Bass
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/microsoft-azure-sales-top-1-billion-challenging-amazon.html