Fortinet SDN and virtualization partners help enable architectural integration for Fortinet solutions. Our joint security solutions provide customers with a broad range of choices in applications and technologies with the broadest range of deployment options.

Big Switch Networks

Big Switch Networks is the leader in Open Software-Defined Networking, and includes members of the pioneering team that developed the OpenFlow protocol at Stanford University. Software-defined networking (SDN) represents the most transformative architectural shift embraced by the networking industry in 20 years, and unlocks all new customer value through an open, flexible and programmable network architecture.

Citrix Systems

Citrix Systems is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and consumers.

Fortinet solutions are certified to interoperate and integrate seamlessly with the Citrix Access Platform, which provides world-class on-demand information access and application delivery to over 180,000 organizations around the world. Leveraging a partnership, Fortinet is able to offer customers a deeper integration of FortiGate unified threat management security features with Citrix-based environments.

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks delivers best-in-class Ethernet technologies that span the converged edge to the enterprise core leveraging ExtremeXOS®, an end-to-end modular and extensible operating system that adds intelligence to the network. ExtremeXOS guarantees predictability from the edge to the cloud and provides the tools to build a more flexible and cost-effective infrastructure.

VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and more than 10,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies.

By deploying a FortiGate security appliance at the network edge of an IT infrastructure virtualized by VMware ESX Server, customers can enable comprehensive security services and customize policies across multiple security domains based on individual security requirements to protect each VMware virtual servers rather than use a generic overarching policy, resulting in increased network security within virtualized environments.