Fortinet Strengthens Cloud Security Offering: Supports VPN Access to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform
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Fortinet®, a global leader in high-performance network security — today announced support for secure access to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. As organizations continue to migrate mission critical applications to the cloud, secure access to sensitive data and application workloads remains critically important. Starting today, customers can immediately benefit from a secure virtual private network (VPN) access to Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering while leveraging Fortinet’s broad and multi-layered security technologies across network, application and content security.
"Microsoft Azure’s cloud scalability, performance and economic benefits make it a convincing choice for customers wanting to leverage the cloud while continuing to use existing on-premises infrastructure," said Venkat Gattamneni, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft. "These customers require secure VPN access from office and branch networks to the cloud, and Fortinet’s next-generation firewall platforms extend on-premises datacenters to the cloud while enabling security."…
IBM (IBM) has announced a 15.8% increase to its quarterly dividend to $1.10 from $0.95, which was slightly above our expectation of a 10% hike. With its 19th annual increase, IBM’s payout ratio ticks slightly above 25% and should bring the annual dividend payment to nearly $4.4 billion. There is no change to our $212 fair value estimate or wide moat rating based on the news, and as the firm prepares for its investor day in mid-May, we continue to believe that management’s capital allocation strategy will (even if indirectly) remain in focus…
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