SUNNYVALE, Calif., - October 10, 2011 - Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) - a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - today announced that the company just hosted its first annual Global Partner Conference in Miami, Florida, on October 2-4. Fortinet gathered more than 500 distributors and resellers from 63 countries around the world to present and exchange on its plan for business growth, and reward its best performing and most committed partners.

"Thanks to our strong focus on technology innovation and performance, Fortinet has rapidly grown to become one of today's top network security players. As we're continuing to gain market share across the globe and in the different market sectors, the alignment, expertise and quality of our channel network is even more instrumental to our success," said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of Sales and Support at Fortinet. "We were very pleased to gather, for the first time, partners from all regions, to hear about their experience in selling Fortinet and highlight to them the highly profitable business they can generate through their active commitment to our brand."

During the event, one of Fortinet's highlights was the introduction of its new FortiGate® product suite, including the FortiGate-300C, Fortigate-600C and Fortigate-1000C appliances which provide mid and large size enterprises with powerful, highly flexible and resilient security to protect their critical assets from a wide variety of threats. The new product range will give Fortinet's partners a real competitive advantage by delivering to the market the best price/performance ratios and a complete offering, capable of addressing the various security needs of customers wanting to replace their traditional firewall deployments or expand their network capability.

Fortinet also hosted an award ceremony, during which it rewarded its best performing and most committed partners, which include the following:

- Global Partner of the Year: Dimension Data

- Top Distributor: Ingram Micro & FineTec (U.S.); CLA Direct (LATAM); Sidin (EMEA); IT DC (APAC)

- Top Reseller: Apollo Information Systems (U.S.); GTLink (LATAM); Telefonica (EMEA); Wipro Limited (APAC)

- VIP Partner : Infogressive (U.S.); Precicom (Canada); Telefonica (LATAM); Siemens Enterprise Communications (EMEA); NCS (APAC)

- New Partner of the Year: : Carousel (U.S. & Canada); Arcon (LATAM); Telindus (EMEA); GCOM (APAC)

"We were very pleased to be part of Fortinet's Global Partner Conference, which we found very informative and motivating. Among the top network security providers, Fortinet is the only one to be fully focused on security and able to address the broad security needs of organizations," said Adisorn Singluedej, Managing Director, IT Distribution Co. Ltd. "With Fortinet's innovation, end-to-end IT security product line and strong FortiPartner Program, we benefit from a very compelling proposition to our customers."