{"id":40205,"date":"2020-10-07T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=40205"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T03:00:57","slug":"fortinet-named-leader-in-2020-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-wan-edge-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/10\/07\/fortinet-named-leader-in-2020-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-wan-edge-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet named leader in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fortinet,\u00a0a global player in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced\u00a0it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the\u00a0Gartner September 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure,\u00a0placing higher in ability to execute and further in completeness\u00a0of vision than its position the previous year.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortinet continues\u00a0to drive innovation\u00a0of\u00a0Fortinet Secure SD-WAN\u00a0to deliver an\u00a0organically developed\u00a0solution\u00a0that\u00a0consolidates\u00a0advanced routing,\u00a0self-healing SD-WAN capabilities,\u00a0and intuitive orchestration\u00a0with\u00a0the industry\u2019s\u00a0most flexible security\u00a0options via\u00a0integrated\u00a0next-generation\u00a0firewall or SASE-based cloud-delivered security.Fortinet\u2019s dedication to SD-WAN innovation has also resulted in the industry\u2019s most extensive and secure SD-WAN solution, able to be deployed across the home, branch, campus and multi-cloud.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortinet Secure SD-WAN helps customers realize significant benefits, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Better user experience:<\/strong>&nbsp;Fortinet customers can dynamically learn and overcome WAN impairments at all edges through comprehensive self-healing SD-WAN capabilities, which are powered by purpose-built ASICs for higher performance. AI and ML-powered application learning provides visibility and control to deliver the best application performance possible.<\/li><li><strong>Reduced costs and complexity:&nbsp;<\/strong>Fortinet\u2019s Security-driven Networking approach converges networking and security into a unified Secure SD-WAN solution with centralized orchestration, enabling customers to reduce point products and operational complexity and achieve the best possible total cost of ownership (TCO).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Fortinet was named a 2020\u00a0Gartner Peer Insights Customers\u2019 Choice\u00a0for WAN Edge Infrastructure.\u00a0This distinction is based on feedback and ratings from end-user professionals who have experience purchasing, implementing or using\u00a0Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortinet was also named the\u00a0fastest growing SD-WAN vendor\u00a0by Omdia, which noted\u00a0247% year-over-year growth in Fortinet\u2019s SD-WAN revenue\u00a0from 1Q19 to 1Q20.\u00a0Fortinet believes this additional accolade showcases Fortinet\u2019s ability to deliver one of the top SD-WAN solutions on the market.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers who choose Fortinet Secure SD-WAN are able to futureproof their investments by extending SD-WAN to address emerging use cases with new cloud-delivered security innovations providing flexible SASE solutions for today\u2019s diverse workforce anytime and anywhere.\u00a0With the broadest availability for multi-cloud, continued innovations in unified cloud orchestration\u00a0will enableend-to-end visibility and control anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortinet was one of the first vendors to showcase the SD-WAN to\u00a0SD-Branch\u00a0expansion and continues to innovate to provide tighter integration, security and analytics between the LAN Edge and WAN Edge. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortinet was also named the fastest growing SD-WAN vendor by Omdia, which noted 247% year-over-year growth in Fortinet\u2019s SD-WAN revenue from 1Q19 to 1Q20. Fortinet believes this additional accolade showcases Fortinet\u2019s ability to deliver one of the top SD-WAN solutions on the market.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[169,96],"class_list":["post-40205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-fortinet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}