Fortinet leader in Gartner Multifunction Firewall Magic Quadrant

Multifunction is Gartner’s term for Unified Threat Management (UTM) and the report focuses predominantly on the SMB market – a market Gartner defines as companies that have 1,000 employees or less.

This exciting new report marks the first Magic Quadrant perfectly aligned with Fortinet’s go–to–market strategy. As a result, Fortinet is the furthest “up and right” with more advanced placement than any other named vendors. Fortinet’s leadership position in this report reflects that Gartner and its customers perceive Fortinet as the most visionary and most successful company addressing this segment of the market. This report is great resource for you to further champion Fortinet.

Gartner calls out the following Fortinet strengths in this report:

• Fortinet shows competitive strength –it was the most-named “top competitor” in our vendor survey, and Gartner frequently sees it on SMB customer shortlists
• Fortinet has good performance from purpose-built hardware and a wide model range within SMBs. In addition, Fortinet is better–suited for upper–midsize deployments than many of its competitors are
• Customers generally like the firewalling and security features in Fortinet platforms. Customers also like the URL filtering
• In SMB environments, ease of deployment continues to differentiate Fortinet from legacy firewall vendors

Date: 08/09/2009