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Canon IT Solutions Makes Further Inroads into Japanese IT Security Market with Clavister Solutions
April 2016 by Marc Jacob
Canon IT Solutions Inc., a core company of the Canon Marketing Japan (Canon MJ) group and Clavister, a provider of high performance network security solutions, have made significant progress in the Japanese IT security market, resulting in an order from Canon, worth 1.9 million SEK for Clavister’s solutions.
The companies signed a distribution agreement in Q4 2015 and have since been jointly investing in marketing Clavister solutions in Japan. As a result of the activity Canon IT has ordered 300 E80 and 10 W20 Clavister appliances for resale to Japanese businesses, as it sees substantial interest in the solutions within the market. Further orders are already in the pipeline as the companies work to earn an increased share of the $360M market in Japan for security appliances.
Canon IT Solutions, is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Canon group which has over 26,000 employees worldwide and is one of the most influential system integrators and resellers of IT services in the Japanese market. Canon is rapidly increasing its efforts to consolidate its position as a leading security solution provider. Clavister’s solutions range from entry level next-generation firewalls (NGFW) in desktop-sized packages, to Virtual Series Gateways that enable the highest levels of throughput, offering six nines (99.9999%) availability for carrier-grade security in the most demanding network environments.
