Fortinet joins VMware NSX Partner Ecosystem

Penel says the SDDC promises a highly automated, easily managed platform.
Penel says the SDDC promises a highly automated, easily managed platform.

Network security appliances maker Fortinet has announced that the company has joined the VMware NSX partner ecosystem.

The vendor also revealed that its new FortiGate-VMX firewall appliance will enable greater security for customers within agile, elastic software-defined data centers based on VMware vSphere and VMware NSX virtualisation platforms.

With Fortinet’s new VMX solution, VMware vSphere and VMware NSX customers will be able to leverage Fortinet’s leading approach to security, which automates the orchestration of network security with seamless centralised management across physical and virtual domains, the security company said in a statement.

“The SDDC promises a highly automated, easily managed platform that embraces and secures all applications, for fast, safe deployment across data centers, clouds and mobile devices,” said Alain Penel, regional vice president, Middle East, Fortinet. “Fortinet and VMware are uniquely positioned to deliver on this promise, providing the highest levels of security in virtualised environments.”

“Purpose-built virtual security appliances will be increasingly used alongside hardware appliances to secure enterprise data centers, which are becoming increasingly dynamic due to rapid adoption of server virtualisation and SDN,” said Jeff Wilson, principal analyst, Security for Infonetics. “Fortinet is doing well in enterprise data centers, with a string of new customer wins and highly competitive hardware price-to-performance; this success will be bolstered by virtual appliance integration with VMware’s virtualization and SDDC platform.”

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