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available for Google Cloud Platform customers,
delivering on-demand consumption while
providing multiple layers of security for
dynamic enterprise cloud networks.
John Maddison, Senior Vice President of
Products and Solutions at Fortinet, said: “The
majority of organisations are leveraging cloud
computing to accelerate their digital business
strategies and growth. As such, infrastructure
requirements for on-demand resources
that can automatically and securely scale
with business demands are rapidly evolving,
making security transformation a critical
requirement for these multi-cloud networks.
Through our collaboration with Google Cloud,
we are now offering the broad visibility,
integrated threat detection and automated
response capabilities of Fortinet cloud security
to Google Cloud customers.”
Delivering broad security
visibility and automated policies
for Google Cloud customers
CPUs, Security Processing Units (SPUs) and
Content (CP9) and Network Processors
(NP6) into a discrete unit. The FortiGate
6000F series can support up to 10 discrete
processing cards in a 3U appliance. The
innovative design enables traditionally
chassis-only benefits like high resilience and
session scale while also delivering advanced
security capabilities at breakthrough speeds
never before seen in a compact appliance
form-factor. The architecture provides
additional benefits like hardware load
balancing using new custom Distribution
Processors (DP3) that intelligently assign
tasks between the discrete processing cards.
Stuart Berman, Global Security Architect
at Steelcase, said: “Our use of the cloud
continues to expand to meet the evolving
business needs of our users and customers.
This growth has increased the amount of
traffic crossing our networks and created an
imperative to continue to maintain security
standards across our entire infrastructure
without impacting business productivity. Our
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extended IT infrastructure is absolutely critical
to everything we do, so it’s invaluable to
have the security performance and seamless
protection that Fortinet provides across our
physical and cloud-based domains.”
Pascal Perot, VP Strategic Alliances, Security
at ePlus, said: “Cloud computing is becoming
increasingly popular, but gaps in protection
can occur if security solutions can’t keep
pace with agile public, private and hybrid
cloud environments. The growth of IoT
and mobility also puts large demands on
performance and security architectures
as data traverses these end points. ePlus
recognises these advances and has invested
significantly in providing our customers with
comprehensive security solutions to meet
these growing demands. We are proud to
partner with Fortinet and leverage their
robust platform to both scale and secure
these transformative environments.”
Fortinet, has also recently announced that
its FortiGate Virtual Machine (VM) is now
Cloud computing is a key enabler of
enterprise digital transformation strategies.
As businesses move applications out of
on-premise data centres to public cloud
infrastructure to benefit from the agility
and scale of cloud resources, consistent
security control and policies are critical.
Protecting these highly dynamic multi-cloud
environments requires a Security Fabric
with tightly-integrated security features and
network technologies that share intelligence
on advanced threats and automate
responses in real-time. Fortinet is working
with partners like Google Cloud to enable
enterprises to accelerate their digital business
through cloud computing, while ensuring the
consistent security and privacy of customer
and organisational data across the cloud.
Through the Fortinet Security Fabric, Fortinet
provides enterprise customers with a single
pane of glass view of FortiGate VMs and other
security applications across Google Cloud, on-
premise, as well as hybrid cloud environments.
“Google Cloud’s highly-scalable and secure
infrastructure enables customers to increase
agility, lower costs and reduce IT complexity.
Collaborating with Fortinet on the availability
of FortiGate VM provides customers with
additional visibility and control for their
Google Cloud Platform workloads,” said
Adam Massey, Director, Strategic Technology
Partners, Google Cloud. n
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