Fortinet now a part of VMware NSX Partner Ecosystem

Fortinet has announced that the company has joined the VMware NSX partner ecosystem. Committed to providing leading security solutions for virtualization, Fortinet also revealed its new FortiGate-VMX firewall appliance, which will enable greater security for customers within agile, elastic software-defined data centers based on VMware vSphere and VMware NSX virtualization platforms.

“The SDDC promises a highly automated, easily managed platform that embraces and secures all applications, for fast, safe deployment across data centers, clouds and mobile devices,” said Rajesh Maurya, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Fortinet. “Fortinet and VMware are uniquely positioned to deliver on this promise, providing the highest levels of security in virtualized environments.” Today’s data center is rapidly changing in response to cloud, big data, software and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Software-Defined Networking and Software-Defined Data Centers are also creating very dynamic environments which challenge the status quo of how network services are delivered. To address these challenges, the FortiGate-VMX solution interoperates with VMware virtualization solutions in the SDDC, providing API integration that gives customers greater visibility and control of virtual network traffic regardless of network topology. In addition, orchestration with VMware’s platform allows for automatic protection of new workloads.