Redington recently announced that it was named Fortinet’s 2015 Asia Pacific Distribution Partner of the Year. Redington was recognized during the Fortinet Global Partner Conference, an annual gathering of more than 1,200 top partners from around the globe. The Fortinet Partner Awards acknowledge the outstanding achievements delivered by Fortinet partners and distributors. This year’s award winners were selected from a group of nominations based on their commitment to meeting customers’ cybersecurity requirements, their market impact and exemplary use of Fortinet solutions.

Redington grew its Fortinet business at a rate significantly higher than that of the security appliance market in India, thanks to its continued dedication and commitment to delivering security to its customers without compromise. Redington's success was achieved by giving excellent support to all its resellers, providing timely market intelligence, launching marketing support programs and ensuring ease of engagement to help partners close deals effortlessly.

“We have successfully grown Fortinet’s business by taking their solutions to over 56 sales locations across India.” said Kannappan Sundaresan, Executive Vice President, Redington. “Ours is an important partnership and we look forward to further growing our business by identifying synergistic business opportunities for our partners. We are honoured to receive the award which is the result of our alignment with Fortinet’s GTM strategy.”

Fortinet’s annual Global Partner Conference (GPC) provides the Fortinet partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Fortinet GPC presents an ideal setting for partners to take away valuable knowledge from their peers and from Fortinet. In addition, technology alliance partners sponsor a live tech expo highlighting their innovations and Fortinet implementations, providing the partner attendees an opportunity to learn about new ways to serve and meet their customers' evolving cyber security needs.