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Millennium Information Technologies Senior Consulting Engineer Viraj De Mendis receiving the Best Partner 2016 award for Sri Lanka from Fortinet Vice President Strategic Solutions Darren Turnbull
Fortinet the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, conducted its annual SAARC partner conference in Bangkok, Thailand and recognised top partners for their outstanding achievements in 2016.
At the conference attended by 150 partners from 4 SAARC countries (Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Nepal), Fortinet unveiled new business opportunities with its Fabric Ready Partner Program that brings together best-in-class technology alliance that allows partners to deliver pre-integrated, end-to-end security offerings that are ready for deployment.
Fortinet also announced the SAARC Partner of the Year awards for 2016:
“Our customers have already invested in an infrastructure of networking and security tools and platforms. These products are an essential part of their security strategy and defence capability. Extending the functionality and intelligence of the Fortinet Security Fabric to leading third-party solutions allows us to not only maximise existing security technologies but goes even further by bringing them all together in a cohesive, integrated security platform to solve real-world problems,” said Millennium Information Technologies of Sri Lanka Senior Consulting Engineer Viraj De Mendis. “We have over 1,200 registered partners in SAARC and everyone’s contribution has been valuable in the phenomenal growth that Fortinet has experienced in the last year,” said Fortinet Regional Vice President, SAARC Rajesh Maurya. “I wish to extend my gratitude to all partners for their dedication and achievements in 2016. Fortinet will reinforce its ongoing investments in R&D, support and professional services and will work together with partners to provide the best cyber security to our customers.”
The conference had business and technology sessions where Fortinet gave pointers to partners to expand their offerings and maintain their competitive advantages. Fortinet also provided assets and guidance to resellers looking to enter new security markets. At the end of the conference, several partners expressed greater confidence in developing a wide range of security services to offer their customers while increasing their engineering productivity and profitability.
The Fortinet Security Fabric with an open and cooperative ecosystem of solutions will allow partners to: Bundle, sell, and deploy solution sets without the burden of significant costs and resources usually required for validating technology integration when delivering multi-product, multi-vendor solutions to customers and Provide customers with solutions that are faster to deploy, coupled with reduced operational expenses and technical support costs.
