Fortinet joins Equinix Cloud Exchange to provide secure data

BANGALORE, INDIA: Fortinet, has announced it has formed an alliance with Equinix, Inc., joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange to provide enterprises and service providers mature, scalable and reliable security solutions across multiple cloud architectures.

Fortinet’s, high capacity firewall technologies deliver security functionality, throughput and ultra-low latency, enabling security, flexibility, scalability and manageability across customer datacenters, while leveraging the benefits of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

The Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution that enables seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple clouds and networks inside Equinix IBX data centers. By bringing together cloud service providers with enterprises and enabling them to establish private, high-performance connections, the Equinix cloud exchange gives cloud users direct access to the services they need to build sophisticated hybrid cloud solutions.

"As more and more enterprise customers incorporate cloud deployments into their overall infrastructure, there is a fundamental effect on how network security is designed and deployed,” said Chris Sharp, vice president of cloud innovation, Equinix.

“As businesses move more and more sensitive data to cloud infrastructures, the addition of Fortinet’s proven, carrier-class solutions to our Cloud Exchange will enable large global customers to deploy a robust virtualized security infrastructure without compromising performance.”

Rajesh Maurya, country manager, India & SAARC, for Fortinet, said, "Our FortiPrivate Cloud and FortiGate and cloud/SaaS management solutions offer the unique ability to integrate seamlessly into the Equinix Cloud Exchange. Combined, they offer a significant opportunity for customers to pick cloud services best suited for their respective applications, workloads and business needs."