Fortinet has partnered with Sify Technologies Limited to enable the latter to immediately roll out an on-demand security solution to their cloud computing customers and its Clean Connect service. The services are designed to guarantee secure bandwidth and clean connectivity to their enterprise customers. Fortinet's end-to-end virtualization functionality, available on the FortiGate integrated multi-threat security platforms, enables Sify to provision security resources, on-demand, from a shared appliance while providing an unmatched range of security services quickly and easily to its customers. 

Sify's On-Demand Security solution offers cloud computing customers the ability to deploy the security layer on an on-demand basis, therefore providing complete end-to-end Opex-based services.  These cover the areas of security, WAN edge, unified switching, computing and storage. The solution allows customers to address data center requirements through virtualization, and to integrate private and public cloud services into a single infrastructure.

"Sify has effectively utilized Fortinet solutions' virtualization capabilities, allowing customization of security service offerings down to the individual customer level, which is so essential for multi-tenant environments," said Vishak Raman, Regional Director, SAARC & India, Fortinet. 

Pranesh Babu, Chief Technology Officer, Sify Technologies, said, "We will work hard to replicate the successes we have had with Fortinet's various solutions to the Clean Connect services we are launching today."

Sify's Clean Connect services offer cloud-based UTM functionalities for customers subscribing to its dedicated Internet access services. Enterprise administrators can define a set of custom security policies, including firewall and IPS policies, and Web filtering rules.  

Fortinet enables cloud-hosting and service providers to create secure cloud infrastructures and deliver cloud security services. Fortinet appliances and chassis-based multi-threat security platforms currently secure a wide range of public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures around the world. The FortiGate multi-threat security platforms incorporate the proprietary Virtual Domain (VDOM) technology, providing secure virtualization of security services.