Alternative Technology Adds Fortinet to Its GSA Schedule; Fortinet Solutions Are Now Available to Government Sectors on Alternative Technology's GSA Schedule.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Alternative Technology, the leading specialty distributor of thin-client/server-based computing, edge infrastructure, and Government-approved security solutions, today announced the addition of Fortinet to its GSA Schedule. Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems. Its FortiGate(TM) systems will now be available to authorized VARs for sales to federal, state, and local government entities via Alternative Technology's Distribution GSA Schedule.

"We're excited with the prospect of supporting Fortinet's growing Federal business. We've seen increased activity with Fortinet Federal Partners and the addition of Fortinet's products to our GSA Schedule provides us with the means to meet federal agency demands with our federal partners," said John Stubbs, vice president of business development strategies, Alternative Technology. "Fortinet has a comprehensive security platform that is applicable to a broad range of core and edge applications in traditional and tactical deployments across the Federal sector," said Stubbs.

"We are delighted to expand our relationship with Alternative Technology and be part of AT's GSA program," said Chris Andrews, Fortinet's vice president of sales, Americas. "We look forward to working closely with them and their government sector VARs and solution providers to address the growing needs of the government for advanced, scalable multi-threat protection that Fortinet's market-leading security platform provides."

"Alternative Technology's VARs are actively engaged in the federal, state, and local markets to identify emerging opportunities for our suite of vendor offerings, including special market initiatives such as the Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 12 (HSPD-12)," said Stubbs. "VARs have one point of contact to buy best-of-breed security and infrastructure products and integrated solutions from Alternative Technology's vendors, who participate in the GSA program and are heavily supported by our go-to-market plans, integrated solutions, and security consulting and technical services."

About Alternative Technology

Alternative Technology is the leading specialty distributor for Value Added Resellers who need products and services targeted at Thin-client/Server-based Computing, Edge Infrastructure, Security, and Wireless markets. Driving the widespread adoption of leading-edge technologies by bridging the gaps between products and services to solve critical business problems, Alternative identifies business issues that are key to our markets and offer multi-vendor solutions that drive demand back through our reseller partners. Alternative Technology, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Carlsbad, California, and Mississauga, Canada. For more information, go to: www.AltTech.com, e-mail: [e-mail] or call toll-free: 800-544-7674 (USA), or 866-240-9991 (Canada).

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam -- providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.