Fortinet remains leader in UTM factory revenue, IDC

NEW DELHI: According to the new IDC research data,  Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory revenue for the third consecutive quarter including Q2 2007.

According to IDC, Fortinet ranks No. 3 among the top five largest security appliance vendors worldwide for the quarter and is the fastest growing of these vendors year over year from Q2 2006, based on factory revenue. Additionally, IDC data confirmed that Fortinet experienced significant growth in both factory revenue and units shipped in a high-end UTM price band segment which typically represents sales to large enterprises and service providers. 

“The figures show that UTM is beginning to gain acceptance in the high end enterprise market, as evidenced by our sales in China. We fully expect that this trend will continue in the weeks and months ahead and spread to more territories in Asia,” said Jens Andreassen, Fortinet’s Vice President of Sales for APAC.

“As network threats continue to propagate, the need for a manageable, unified security front becomes even more of an imperative for large enterprises, MSSPs and telecommunications carriers,” said Ken Xie, founder and CEO of Fortinet. “IDC’s latest research confirms that all-sized organizations worldwide continue to adopt Fortinet’s multi-threat security solutions to provide a truly integrated defense.” 

IDC defines UTM security appliance products as those that integrate multiple security features within one device, including network firewalling, network intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), and gateway anti-virus. Fortinet takes UTM further through its family of award-winning FortiGate multi-threat security systems that integrate eight essential security applications and services - including firewall, antivirus, virtual private network (VPN), intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, Web content filtering and traffic shaping – that can be deployed individually, or combined as a UTM solution.