11 January 2022 – CALGARY, Canada and ANKARA, Turkey: Wedge Networks (“Wedge”) is pleased to announce that its distribution partner in Turkey, Mavinci Bilişim Sanayi ve Tic. A.S. ("Mavinci"), a leading software development and R&D company, headquartered in Ankara, Turkey, has signed a partnership agreement with one of the country’s fastest growing managed service providers, Teletek Bulut Bilişim ve İletişim Hiz. A.Ş (“Teletek”). Based on the Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection™ ("WedgeARP™") platform, Mavinci, with its new partner Teletek, will be introducing real-time threat prevention as part of a Turkish Cloud Solution for Cyber Security.
WedgeARP™ provides cloud network based, real-time threat protection for all types of endpoints in a wide range of networks (mobile data, 5G, SD-WAN, SASE, enterprise, and carrier networks, SDN, and smart-city/IIoT). With an embedded deep learning AI engine and patented real-time deep content inspection technology, WedgeARP™ can detect never-before-seen malware in milliseconds. Running on an orchestrated threat management platform, it is an effective and autonomous approach to enable large-scale real-time threat prevention.
Teletek is one of the fastest growing managed service providers in Turkey, providing cloud servers, data storage, vCloud data centers, disaster recovery and data security, network services, telecom services, and managed services to its customers.
By integrating the WedgeARP™ platform into Teletek’s managed services infrastructure, real-time threat prevention can be enabled immediately, providing easily configured and deployed cyber security solutions from the company’s cloud platform. With a deep focus on data centers as well as smart manufacturing, smart infrastructure, smart city, etc,, the new partnership aims to be the key cyber security provider for the Turkish market.
"We are very excited to be deploying the WedgeARP™ platform into our managed services infrastructure.” said Taner Tekeci - Vice President of Teletek. “We are already servicing a large number of companies, providing managed data center, storage and backup, and other disaster recovery services. It was a natural progression for us to also offer security services to help protect the customers that we manage. WedgeARP™ is an easy add-on to our cloud-based infrastructure and it enables us to quickly and efficiently start offering Security-as-a-Service as another product in our menu of services.”
"Signing with Teletek as a new business partner in the Turkish market will provide unmatched real-time threat prevention for millions of customers in our growing market.” said Muhammed Salih Cetin, GM of Mavinci. “With WedgeARP™ providing the orchestrated threat management platform for Teletek’s infrastructure and Mavinci adding local marketing and technical support, we are expecting huge growth that will drive all of our respective organizations into the future.”
“The market in Turkey is undergoing an exciting digital transformation. We are very proud to be an enabler of this important partnership between Mavinci and Teletek, the two recognized leaders serving customers in this market,” stated Dr. Hongwen Zhang, CEO & CTO of Wedge Networks. “With more and more organizations and infrastructures relying on agile and efficient cloud connectivity, effective real-time threat prevention becomes extremely critical. I'm very excited that our WedgeARP™, supported by Mavcinci, will provide the underlying security platform in Teletek’s managed services offering.” ”
Teletek and Mavinci will distribute, market, and promote WedgeARP™ services as part of the Turkish Cloud Solution for Cyber Security, with an expected initial launch date to occur early in 2022.
About Teletek Bulut Bilişim ve İletişim Hiz. A.Ş
Established in 2011, Teletek’s focus is to provide the high standard information infrastructure needed by corporate companies, offered through the cloud.
Cloud Computing has already taken its place in business processes as a method that changes the way of doing business all over the world and that reorganizes IT Services infrastructure investments. With this vision, Teletek’s mission is to enable the changing way companies are doing business by attaching importance to Information Technologies Infrastructure and by providing 100% domestic capital and 24/7 Engineering Support in Turkey.
The company offers its Teletek Cloud Platform, which was created to ensure continuity in Turkey’s corporate data centers with leading hardware and software. The platform provides end-to-end management of its customers’ network requirements through a reliable cloud platform operated out of three geographical data centers.
Teletek works to support its customers in growing their businesses, increasing their productivity, and keeping up to date with the newest generation of technologies.
For more information on Teletek, visit: https://www.teletek.net.tr/
About Mavinci Bilişim Sanayi ve Tic. A.S.
Mavinci Bilişim Sanayi ve Tic. A.S. develops high level technical capabilities in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Nuclear Safety, CBRN, Cloud technologies, and High-Tech Computational Engineering in the security, nuclear, corporate and defence sectors.
Mavinci has a well-defined containerization process for legacy applications which are working on Linux and/or Windows OSes. Depending on the customer’s requirements our services start from simply virtualizing the environments and moving to the cloud towards analyzing the source code and defining decompositions, components, interdependencies, refactoring, testing, dockerizing and deploying with a microservice architecture. We mainly focus on smart technologies with our own products and software platforms to bring effective, time and money saving solutions in our customers' lives.
Mavinci owns TTSO Nuclear AS in Turkey in the field of Nuclear Safety and Mavinci Limited as a UK based technology company. The goal of the companies is to design & develop novel, innovative and effective solutions for its customers.
For more information on Mavinci, visit: https://www.mavinci.com.tr/en-US/WebSite
About Wedge Networks
Wedge Networks Inc. is a cyber security software vendor specializing in Real-time Threat Prevention. Its innovative technology platform, Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection (WedgeARP™), is a software defined orchestrated network security system. Deployed, via the cloud, on premises, or in a virtualized environment, in data centers by enterprises, governments, and managed security service providers, WedgeARP™ inspects, detects, and blocks in real-time, malware and cyber threats (known, unknown and customized). Wedge does this through its patented Deep Content Inspection (DCI) technologies, combined with artificial intelligence and best-of-breed security functions.
Awarded a Gartner Cool Vendor designation, and twice bestowed with Build-In-Canada Innovation awards, Wedge Networks is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with international teams in the North America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa regions.
For more information on Wedge Networks, visit https://www.wedgenetworks.com
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