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Unified Threat Management Leader Chooses WhiteGold for its Breadth and Depth of Expertise in Data Security.
SYDNEY, Australia; January 11, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced the appointment of WhiteGold Solutions as a distributor of Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate™ systems throughout Australia.
Founded in 2002, WhiteGold Solutions is a fast-expanding distributor and reseller of premium quality IT Security products to the Australian IT channel and end user markets. WhiteGold solutions are backed by quality support and ongoing maintenance.
WhiteGold Managing Director, Dominic Whitehand, said: "We are please to sign on with the leader of the fastest growing segment of the security space - Universal Threat Managment. Fortinet's integrated antivirus firewall systems and complimentary products can scale from the low end right up to enterprises with multiple thousand users. The FortiGate solutions provide the comprehensive security needed by enterprises of all sizes, and can handle even the most demanding traffic levels with minimal performance latency because it is ASIC-based. Fortinet's solutions have huge appeal in the Australian marketplace and we see them becoming increasingly popular in local universities, large corporations and high traffic environments."
"We are pleased to have secured such a dynamic and enterprising distributor as WhiteGold Solutions," said Jens Andreassen, International Vice President, Sales, Fortinet, Inc., "We expect WhiteGold to be a significant asset in Fortinet's portfolio of distributors. The company's experience has led to the development of a highly efficient distribution system that ensures customers using Fortinet's FortiGate antivirus firewalls will receive what they need promptly and with excellent support services."
About WhiteGold Solutions (http://www.whitegold.com.au)
WhiteGold Solutions is a value-added distributor in the Australian IT channel. The company's strategy is defined as "niche-on-niche"; niche products into niche markets. This strategy gives resellers better margins, services, support and ultimately, better value in all products in the WhiteGold Product Portfolio. The company was incorporate in Australia 2002 by seasoned IT security identities with experience across sales and marketing, technical capabilities and channel knowledge in this space. The company provides products to resellers encompassing SME, corporate and enterprise sectors with key niche verticals within each.
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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