New alliance extends geographic presence coupled with global deployment and support services
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) – a global leader in high performance 
network security – today announced that it has bolstered its long-standing relationship with Exclusive Networks Group by extendingthe partnership intonew countries in the international market as well as providing improved global project deployment and support services.
Fortinet has strengthened its partnership with Exclusive Networks in both the EMEA and APAC regions by opening up existing markets in countries such as Spain and extending distribution through Exclusive’s acquisitions of Secureway (Middle East); WhiteGold (Australia) and Sidin (Italy).
With over 1.7 million units shipped and more than 210,000 customers worldwide, including most of the Fortune Global 100, Fortinet continues to cement its position as one of the world’s preeminent network security vendors. This is backed up with Fortinet partners on every continent, Fortinet offices in more than 30 countries and a 24/7 global support organisation encompassing FortiCare services and FortiGuard threat research and response capabilities.
Fortinet’smarket-leadingposition and recent focused investments have helped the company accelerate its enterprise and high-end business in the past year. More than two-thirds of revenues have been generated from thesemarkets and the multi-million dollar projects have been completed withlarge global companies that require sophisticated worldwide and 24/7 technical support. Exclusive’s acquisition ofglobal services company ITEC Intelligent Services plc enablesFortinet channel partners improved access to worldwide deployments and onsite support programs to help satisfy customers’ global security requirements.
“This extended partnership further underlines ourlong-standing and committed relationship with Exclusive,which, over time, hasstrongly contributedto Fortinet’sgrowth in EMEA,” said Patrice Perche, senior vice president international sales and support at Fortinet. “Looking forward, I believe Exclusive Networks Group’s recent investments in geographic expansion and global services capabilities will further enhance the business value of our enterprise resellers and better serve the security needs of our customers worldwide.”
With headquarters and a 24/7 technical support centre situated in the UK and offices in Florida, Singapore and Malaysia, the ITEC acquisition means that Exclusive can now deliver project rollout, shipment, installation and onsite support for Fortinet’s customers in more than 90 countries around the world.
“We value our partnership with Fortinet and believe there is so much more that we can achieve together as we expandbeyond our 13 traditional geographic territories and deliver new service capabilities to improve support for global customers,” said Olivier Breittmayer, CEO at Exclusive Networks Group. “We are focused on promoting our high-value partnership to further improve the customer experience and convert and fulfil new global business opportunities for Fortinet and its partners.”
