{"id":13313,"date":"2020-10-07T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:18:24","slug":"fortinet-positioned-a-leader-in-the-2020-gartner-magic-quadrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/fortinet-positioned-a-leader-in-the-2020-gartner-magic-quadrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet positioned a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fortinet\u00a0announced\u00a0it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner September 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, placing higher in ability to execute and further in completeness of vision than its position the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA few years back while the entire industry was thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> as a siloed product, at Fortinet we took a Security-driven Networking approach, combining networking and security to be the first vendor to deliver Secure <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>. We\u2019re pleased to be placed in the Leaders quadrant of the 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, something we feel is another strong indicator of Fortinet\u2019s ability to deliver better user experience with consistent security for our customers. We believe Fortinet will continue to disrupt the industry with solutions rooted in Security-driven Networking principles, next by delivering the most flexible security via <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sase\/\">SASE<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fortinet<\/strong><strong>\u2019s Most Flexible SD-WAN Solution<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortinet continues to drive innovation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/products\/sd-wan.html?utm_source=pr&amp;utm_campaign=2019-q3-sd-wan\">Fortinet Secure SD-WAN<\/a>\u00a0to deliver an organically developed\u00a0solution that\u00a0consolidates advanced routing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/content\/dam\/maindam\/PUBLIC\/02_MARKETING\/02_Collateral\/point-of-view\/pov-the-importance-of-self-healing-sdwan.pdf\">self-healing SD-WAN capabilities<\/a>, and intuitive orchestration with flexible security options via integrated next-generation firewall or <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sase\/\">SASE<\/a>-based cloud-delivered security.\u00a0Fortinet\u2019s dedication to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> innovation has also resulted in extensive and secure SD-WAN solution, able to be deployed across the home, branch, campus and multi-cloud. Fortinet Secure <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> helps customers realize significant benefits, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Better user experience:<\/strong>\u00a0Fortinet customers can dynamically learn and overcome WAN impairments at all edges through comprehensive self-healing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> 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: <\/strong>Fortinet\u2019s Security-driven Networking approach converges networking and security into a unified Secure <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> solution with centralized orchestration, enabling customers to reduce point products and operational complexity and achieve the best possible\u00a0total cost of ownership (TCO).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fortinet Showcases a Clear Vision of the Future of SD-WAN<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers who choose Fortinet Secure SD-WAN are able to futureproof their investments by extending <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sd-wan\/\">SD-WAN<\/a> to address emerging use cases with new cloud-delivered security innovations providing flexible <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/sase\/\">SASE<\/a> solutions for today\u2019s diverse workforce anytime and anywhere. With the broadest availability for multi-cloud, continued innovations in unified cloud orchestration will enable<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>end-to-end visibility and control anywhere.\u00a0Fortinet continues to innovate to provide tighter integration, security and analytics between the LAN Edge and WAN Edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortinet continues to drive innovation of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to deliver an organically developed solution that consolidates advanced routing, self-healing SD-WAN capabilities, and intuitive orchestration with flexible security options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9716],"tags":[4052,206,4055,4054,3285,554,1861,4053],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-brands","tag-2020-gartner-magic-quadrant","tag-fortinet","tag-fortinet-secure-sd-wan","tag-john-maddison","tag-lan","tag-sase","tag-sd-wan","tag-wan-edge"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/John-Maddison-EVP-of-Products-and-CMO-at-Fortinet.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}