Fortinet Announces Top Partners 2012 Awards

Fortinet announced the winners of this year's top partner and distributor awards. TheAward Ceremony took place during Fortinet’s annual Global Partner Conference on November 5-8and recognizes the outstanding achievements drawn from the company's distributors and resellers around the world.

This year's conference attendance was Fortinet\\\'s largest, encompassing more than 1,000distributors and silver and gold resellers from 70countries.

This year’s award winners are:

Top Resellers: Antares (Austria - EMEA); Otsuka Corporation (Japan - APAC);CDW (U.S.); Damovo (Brazil - LATAM)

Top Distributors:Exclusive Networks UK (UK - EMEA); EBrainTech (Korea - APAC); Fine Tech & Ingram Micro (U.S.); Dacas (South America); White Gold Solutions (Australia - ANZ)

VIP Partners: SNS (France - EMEA); NEC (Japan - APAC);Tier Point (USA); Bell (Canada); HP (Puerto Rico - LATAM)

Rookies of the Year: Oceanet Technology (France - EMEA); Digital Track (India - APAC); Light Edge (U.S.); Axtel (Mexico - LATAM)

During the event, one of Fortinet’s highlights was the introduction and channel training of its new FortiOS 5.0, the world’s most advanced security operating system. This new release provides more security, intelligence and control to help enterprises be better protected against today’s advanced threats and enable more secure BYOD environments.Bringing more than 150 new features for FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiClient products, FortiOS 5.0provides ....

“Fortinet continues to rapidly gain market share in the overall network security market, and our channel is key to that success. The Global Partner Conference awards recognize the partners that stand as a model to Fortinet’s overall channel base. And we congratulate them for their achievement,” said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of International Sales and Support for Fortinet. “This year’s conference was the perfect opportunity to share our latest technology innovations and business strategies with our silver and gold resellers in order to have them best equipped to address theincreasingly challenging security requirements of our end customers.”