The enterprise data center is evolving rapidly with technologies such as virtualization, software—defined networking, and public cloud computing. Trying to apply traditional security to new technologies generally will not be effective. Enterprises need to evaluate their data center initiatives and how they will impact network security to insure all areas of the data center remain protected. Today’s data centers are dynamic and complex. Security solutions need to be flexible, effective, and easy to manage so they bring order to the chaos instead of adding to it. Fortinet can protect your physical, virtual, and cloud servers with one solution—whether data center, private cloud, or public cloud deployments. The data center is the focal point of several trends in computing and networking that are driving rapid change to the overall IT infrastructure strategy for many organizations as well as the requirements for data center security. This website discusses these trends and demonstrates how Fortinet’s™ data center security solutions can help you meet the corresponding security requirements to take advantage of the opportunities presented by these trends.

Fortinet™ has been a leader in securing data centers for over 10 years. Fortinet™ high—performance, low—latency chassis and appliance—based solutions have protected many of the largest data centers in the world. Fortinet customers are focused on very high throughput and ultra low latency to meet increasing data center core network speeds. To meet these performance demands, Fortinet FortiGate™ platforms deliver some of the highest throughputs and lowest latencies on the market, several with over 100 Gbps aggregated performance and latency. This high performance enables organizations to implement the network segmentation discussed earlier to support regulatory compliance, function, location or trust level. At the heart of the Fortinet FortiGate™ data center firewalls are purpose—built Fortinet FortiASIC™ processors that enable this extremely high level of performance. These custom content and network processors provide near—wire speed switching, routing, and stateful firewalling. The network processors eliminate the need for legacy L2 switches and routers within the data center. Instead, Fortinet FortiGate™ takes over and performs network segmentation, switching, routing, and network security, all while reducing network complexity

Fortinet Enterprise Cloud Security Solution

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular among enterprises looking to take advantage of the quick deployment, unprecedented scalability, and cost savings. Private cloud infrastructure, including virtualization and software defined networking, are rapidly transforming data centers. At the same time, organizations are rapidly embracing public clouds, both migrating workloads to infrastructure—as—a—service clouds like Amazon AWS™ and Microsoft Azure™, and adopting software—as—a—service applications. This results in a hybrid cloud and increasingly multi—cloud environment that is borderless for your enterprise users, data, and applications. Evolving your infrastructure means your security must evolve as well, to protect your enterprise regardless of where your infrastructure and applications are running. If your security can’t keep up with the agile public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, gaps in protection will occur. There are a number of deployment methods being used that require scalable security capable of keeping up with elastic workloads. Fortinet™ provides comprehensive security for private, public, and hybrid deployments before, during, and after migration.

Fortinet Enterprise Firewall Solution

Under constant attack, organizations cannot afford to choose between security and maintaining a high—performance business infrastructure. Your extended enterprise needs proven security that won’t compromise performance: from deep within internal segments, to physical and virtual data centers, to dynamic cloud environments. Deploying network security solutions from multiple vendors causes unnecessary complexity and introduces security gaps. The Fortinet™ enterprise firewall solution delivers industry—leading security effectiveness with unmatched performance capabilities—through one operating system managed within a single pane of glass. This consolidated architecture gives you an immediate responsive and intelligent defense against malware and emerging threats with an integrated security fabric that extends across your borderless network. The Fortinet FortiGate™ family of network security appliances represents the industry’s broadest range of firewall platforms. Fortinet FortiGate™, interconnected with the Fortinet Security Fabric™, form the backbone of the Fortinet™ enterprise firewall solution.

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