PARTNERS ’ PERSPECTIVE spend counts toward their minimum commit . This means organisations can get the most out of their budget , their cloud provider , and their usage-based pricing programme .
Usage-based cybersecurity licensing provides the flexibility you need to right-size services to your multi-cloud , hybrid cloud , and hybrid mesh firewall environments . Look for solutions that let you :
• Increase and decrease capacity and services as you go without any procurement hassles
• Centralise administration and visibility of all license entitlements with reports
• Deploy and run supported solutions in any cloud , virtualised datacentre , or onpremises deployment
• Purchase through a marketplace to help reduce minimum use commits with cloud providers
• Automate the whole license life-cycle management with rich API support
It is also important to look for a programme that includes validated solutions .
With usage-based licensing , you can eliminate excessive procurement cycles and lead time because teams do not have to preplan their purchases .
Between marketing hype and pay-for-play efficacy reports , it can be challenging to understand which solutions and services will offer the best protection for your environment . Third-party testing is the best way to get objective data to inform your purchasing decisions because these organisations have little incentive to modify their results in favour of a vendor . Look for a flexible licensing programme with solutions and services that have been vetted by these sources .
The mission at Fortinet is to make it as easy as possible for our customers to procure and deploy the cybersecurity solutions they need . FortiFlex usage-based security licensing programme offers a simple , transparent , points-based approach , so customers can freely deploy and scale only the cybersecurity solutions they need .
The FortiFlex programme covers a wide range of Fortinet solutions and services for virtual solutions and services for physical hardware . All can be managed from a single console , and users are billed in 24-hour increments so organisations can right-size daily .
Fortinet is committed to expanding our flexible licensing and purchasing options across more Fortinet solutions and services in the future . •
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