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Fortinet Delivers Isolated Infrastructure Acceleration for the AI Factory with NVIDIA
Collaboration integrates firewalling, segmentation, and policy enforcement directly into NVIDIA BlueField-accelerated infrastructure for higher performance,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Collaboration integrates firewalling, segmentation, and policy enforcement directly into NVIDIA BlueField-accelerated infrastructure for higher performance, stronger isolation, and simpler operations\nSUNNYVALE, Calif. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced an integrated solution featuring FortiGate VM, Fortinet’s virtual cloud firewall, running directly on the NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU). This integration embeds networking and brings isolated infrastructure acceleration into the AI Factory, allowing core security functions to run on BlueField instead of the host. By moving protection into the data center infrastructure itself, the solution helps enterprises secure high-performance private cloud and AI environments without slowing critical workloads. “As enterprises are modernizing their data centers to support AI, private cloud and edge applications require much higher throughput than traditional workloads,” said John Whittle, Chief Operating Officer at Fortinet. “Integrating FortiGate VM on BlueField-3 DPU gives customers a practical way to keep security aligned with these new performance demands. By moving firewalling, segmentation, and zero-trust controls on the DPU, we help organizations improve isolation, reduce latency, and simplify consistent policy enforcement across their environments.” “AI factories demand an entirely new class of secure, accelerated infrastructure,” said Kevin Deierling, Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA. “By running FortiGate VM directly on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, we’re extending the model of infrastructure-offloaded services to include advanced security. This collaboration allows organizations to enforce firewalling, segmentation and zero-trust policies at line rate, without impacting GPU workloads. Together with Fortinet, we’re delivering the secure, high-performance fabric customers need to build and scale their AI-powered data centers with confidence.” A New Era of Infrastructure Acceleration As AI and private-cloud architectures evolve, organizations are building high-density accelerated computing clusters and faster data center fabrics to support latency-sensitive workloads. By bringing isolated infrastructure accelerat...