10 new marketing and sales personnel will help Fortinet partners increase business volume and improve customer service

The Value Systems (TVS), one of the biggest leading IT distributors in Thailand and a member of ECS Holdings Limited, today announced that it has invested in marketing, sales and after-sales resources in its offices in Thailand to better support Fortinet resellers across the country. Since 2003, TVS has been a distributor for Fortinet, a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions.

Somsak Pejthaveeporndej, President of TVS, said: "Over the years, there has been an explosive growth of content and applications on the Internet. IT security threats are also growing in sophistication and complexity. As Fortinet's cost-effective and integrated security solutions address these concerns extremely well, we've seen surging demand from our channels and resellers. We have therefore taken the step to beef up our sales and service channels to cope with the expected business growth."

"The TVS team will be strengthened with the addition of 10 Fortinet-dedicated marketing and pre- and after-sales experts. This new team will take pro-active roles in educating and updating TVS dealers on Fortinet's solutions, helping them become more competent in marketing these solutions to the enterprise and SME markets."

At present, TVS services more than 100 major customers through its 10 branches across Thailand.

Peerapong Jongvibool, Fortinet's Country Manager for Thailand, said: "Our channel strategy is built on the creation of a network of distributors and resellers, which are committed to our brand in order to provide faster and more efficient support to enterprises. Our partnership with TVS since 2003 has proven to be a solid foundation and we will both continue to invest in our channel to guarantee effective equipment maintenance, repair and support services to our end-customers in Thailand."

TVS is a well-established countrywide distributor of leading IT products and solutions, supported by a strong sales team and visionary dealers. As an IT hub, TVS generates demand for Fortinet in the various enterprise segments and supports any form of customer IT security requirements. In addition to Fortinet's core FortiGate® UTM solutions, the TVS team has been trained to push Fortinet's end-to-end IT security product portfolio, including FortiMail™, FortiWeb™, FortiAP™ and Fortinet virtual appliances.

Peerapong concluded: "We will leverage our industry recognition as the world's no.1 UTM player* to help TVS evangelize and acquire customers across Thailand, supporting them through joint customer seminars, workshops and technology roadshows in the various provinces."