Latin America. Francisco Partners and Elliot Management, leading technology-focused private equity firms, announced the definitive acquisition of Dell Software Group and the spin of SonicWall as an independent company. SonicWall, known for its 25 years of innovation in the cybersecurity industry, protects more than one million customer networks worldwide.
Channel partners around the world support today's announcement. "For more than a decade, SonicWall has been a great and valuable partner throughout Latin America," said Rafael Paloni, President of Latin America for Network1/ScanSource. "SonicWall is a channel-focused provider that offers profitable growth opportunities for us and our channels in the cybersecurity segment to help large, small, and medium-sized customers protect their infrastructure and applications."
"SonicWall is trusted by customers and channel partners in more than 40 countries around the world," said Dipanjan "DJ" Deb, CEO of Francisco Partners' "As we have worked closely with SonicWall over the past few months, it has become even clearer to us how SonicWall is focused on innovating through next-generation network security solutions to serve customers and partners. This acquisition will enable a better SonicWall to continue its journey in delivering world-class solutions to its customer and partner base, thereby helping to defend against the explosive growth of new cybersecurity threats."
SonicWall, known for its innovation in the security industry, protects customers' networks with solutions including the Advanced Threat Capture and Protection Service, which revolutionizes advanced threat detection and sandboxing with a multi-engine approach to stop unknown and zero-day attacks, as well as with automated remediation. The company serves businesses of any size around the world such as education, retail, finance, healthcare and government institutions.
