Fortinet has announced it is rapidly expanding its partner-focused
Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud offerings with additional FortiCloud
solutions, providing the industry’s most extensive collection of
Management-as-a-Service (MaaS) and SaaS services. The
breadth of services available provides Fortinet partners and customers
the opportunity to select cloud security and management offerings that
are easy-to-implement, easy-to-manage, flexible, and scalable as their
business grows. In addition, the broad FortiCloud
Services portfolio enables customers to consolidate their number of
security vendors to streamline threat correlation.
FortiCloud Services currently includes 10 MaaS and SaaS offerings,
including FortiGate Cloud Service, Fortinet’s cloud-based firewall
management tool, which is experiencing rapid growth and already has over
550,000 subscriptions. Similarly, FortiSandbox Cloud
has an adoption rate that has grown more than 300% to eclipse 125,000
licensed users. Those customers looking for valuable performance
extensions to their FortiGate UTM, can also tap into the benefits of
FortiMail SEG, FortiWeb WAF and more.
The FortiCloud Services Partner Opportunity
FortiCloud Services provide end-user customers with platform options.
Many of the services are available on multiple platforms such as
appliance, virtual machine, and cloud, offering partners and customers
the ability to tailor their FortiCloud services to
suit their individual needs. For example:
° FortiCloud Services help Fortinet partners become more operationally efficient through automation and centralized management.
° FortiCloud Services offers flexible business models that helps partners to scale with their customers’ needs.
° The variety of FortiCloud Services allows partners to offer features
with devices designed for high performance security, translating to
quicker ROI for operating expenses and opportunity for partners and
their customers.
Fortinet expands its partner focused Security as a Service Cloud offerings
