Telkom | Business Connexion announced that it was named Fortinet’s 2016 EMEA Growth Partner of the Year. Telkom | Business Connexion was honoured during Fortinet’s Accelerate 2017 global partner conference, an annual gathering of more than 1,300 top partners from around the globe. Fortinet’s 2016 Partner of the Year awards recognise outstanding cybersecurity sales, customer experience, collaboration, and marketing achievements from the company’s distributors and resellers around the world.
The Fortinet Growth Partner of the Year award rewards the leading strategic partner that has exhibited consistent, sustainable and profitable growth that contributed to the business success of Fortinet.
Says Patrice Perche, senior executive vice president, worldwide sales and support at Fortinet: “We are excited to honour Telkom | Business Connexion as Fortinet’s 2016 EMEA Growth Partner of the Year. Telkom | Business Connexion has played a critical role in delivering the best cybersecurity solutions to the market in 2016 and has demonstrated exceptional leadership in driving customer security and success. We congratulate their achievements and look forward to continued success for all of our partners in 2017.”
Eric Mc Gee, Telkom Business Connexion Managing Executive for Security Service says that the support and channel-focus delivered by Fortinet and its distributors has provided the impetus for Telkom | Business Connexion to continue expanding and developing its Information Security competency. “The combination of world-leading technology with our local skills base and market reach means the ability to deliver a complete complement of high-performance security solutions, from the end-point, to the data centre and into the cloud. A special appreciation must go to the efforts of the Telkom | Business Connexion sales team, support from our distribution partners and the focus from our technical team which made this award possible,” he says.
Accelerate 2017 offers a unique opportunity for partners and customers to gain insights about Fortinet’s Security Fabric vision, provide direct feedback to Fortinet leadership, learn to maximize Fortinet’s enablement programs, and gain and share best practices with the cybersecurity industry’s best and brightest. You can learn more details about the Fortinet Partner program here.
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