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FortiGate Appliances Bring High Performance Security, Flexibility and Reliability to Global Market Leader's Network
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Apr. 14, 2008
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that Royal Vopak (Vopak), the world's largest independent tank terminal operator specializing in the storage and handling of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products, has implemented Fortinet's FortiGate™ security appliances to help protect its two core data centers in the Netherlands. Fortinet's systems are used for high-performance firewalling to segment Vopak's network for application hosting and to clean those applications from viruses and other malware attacks.
Initially looking at changing the network set-up in its main data centers, Vopak quickly realized there was a need to implement a security solution that would allow the IT staff to have better control over the network traffic, improve its network infrastructure and create a flexible security environment that could accommodate increasing performance needs. Based on those requirements, Vopak evaluated a number of firewall solutions from different vendors and found that Fortinet's FortiGate security appliances were the best fit in terms of performance, reliability and flexibility.
"FortiGate appliances allowed us to have our security grow with the needs of our network infrastructure, evolving from 200 Mbps to 1 Gbps performance over time," said Frank Santana, IT architect at Vopak. "With Fortinet's firewall solution, we control what comes in and out of our data centers, and we have been able to include new applications in our service catalogue without jeopardizing the availability and security of our core systems."
Vopak has deployed a cluster of FortiGate-800 security appliances at its primary data center for high availability and another FortiGate-800 at its disaster recovery center. Thanks to Fortinet's ASIC-accelerated hardware and purpose-built FortiOS™ operating system, FortiGate security devices provide high-speed firewall protection for all the centralized applications, including ERP systems and Web applications, used by 3,000 Vopak employees around the world. The IT team also leverages the security zone feature of FortiGate security appliances to segment the network for application hosting optimization.
"The fact that Vopak relies on our FortiGate appliances for firewall in the core data center is another great proof point of the robustness, performance and reliability of our FortiGate security appliances," said Andre Stewart, EMEA vice president at Fortinet. "With our latest hardware technologies, we measure up against any point solution firewall vendors while providing our customers with greater flexibility in their security deployments."
About Vopak (www.vopak.com)
Royal Vopak is the world's largest independent tank terminal operator specialising in the storage and handling of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products. On request, Vopak can provide complementary logistics services for customers at its terminals. Vopak operates 74 terminals with a storage capacity of over 21 million cbm in 30 countries. The terminals are strategically located for users and the major shipping routes. The majority of its customers are companies operating in the chemical and oil industries, for which Vopak stores a large variety of products destined for a wide range of industries.
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, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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2008 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. Fortinet is a registered trademark of Fortinet, Inc. FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiAnalyzer, FortiASIC, FortiCare, FortiManager, FortiWiFi, FortiGuard, FortiClient, FortiReporter and other names are trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
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