Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 28 | Page 35

FUTURE TECHNOLOGY everchanging, so are the business needs of our customers. Recognising this, Fortinet’s new partner programme allows us to take full advantage of the growing opportunities that the expanding digital marketplace provides through extensive, tailored support and specialisations in areas like SD-WAN, secure access and branch as well as bespoke decoy and deception controls” Koshy Oommen, Director of Infrastructure and Security at Intertec Systems LLC, said: “Fortinet has the unique combination of product innovation and partner enablement initiatives. Fortinet’s new partner programme builds on its existing initiatives, providing specialisations focused on high growth areas to enable partners like us to further expand our business. We look forward to leveraging enhanced aspects of the programme as we continue to invest in our partnership.” Rodney Turner, President and CEO at Layer 3 Communications, said: “As the Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) market has grown and evolved Fortinet has maintained a steady presence, providing new and innovative solutions to Layer 3 Communications. This enables us to meet the security requirements of our customers. Seeing the new partner programme add more incentives for different business models is a true testament of Fortinet’s commitment to helping MSSPs like us grow INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS Issue 28 With security being a critical part of our customers’ cloud strategy, Fortinet has been an invaluable partner in helping us provide greater value to our customers in this endeavour. our managed security services, ultimately leading to maximising profitability.” Dave McMorrow, Principal and Co- Founder at NuSpective Solutions, said: “As our customers migrate to the cloud, they depend on NuSpective Solutions to help design and deploy their cloud environment for optimal scale, performance and security. With security being a critical part of our customers’ cloud strategy, Fortinet has been an invaluable partner in helping us provide greater value to our customers in this endeavour. We are pleased with the Dynamic Cloud specialisation and the additional training available to us through the new partner programme. This enables our team to expand our knowledge and expertise in this growing space.” Aaron Bailey, Chief Information Security Officer at The Missing Link, said: “We’re excited about Fortinet’s new partner programme. The Missing Link has heavily focused on leveraging Fortinet’s NSE Institute training and certification to become a leading provider, and the results speak for themselves. Fortinet has consistently been one of our fastest-growing vendors, year after year. The granularity and specificity of this programme lets partners choose which areas and capabilities they wish to specialise in, including growing markets like SD-WAN. We look forward to continuing to invest in Fortinet to ensure The Missing Link can continue to provide the best level of service, innovation and security to its clients.” Brian Page, Chief Technology Officer at Xiologix, said: “Fortinet continues to provide MSSPs outstanding support as it evolves its new partner program’s enablement to further focus on modern business models like ours. Fortinet has been instrumental in our business success, and we look forward to building on our partnership as we continue to expand our managed services offerings and deliver ever-increasing value to our customers.” ˜ 35