Considering Improving your Wide Area Network?

As organisations transition to a digital business model, their network topologies are significantly impacted. Network enhancements are driven by:

Adoption of cloud services
Virtualization of the traditional network
Remote workers access of applications in the cloud

The traditional wide area network (WAN) is struggling to keep up for a variety of reasons, including:

Cybersecurity defences need to evolve
A mix of network equipment and platforms complicates network management and agility
Reliance on a static infrastructure of devices can’t accommodate shifting and often temporary resource allocation and workloads.

If you are thinking of improving your network by implementing SD-WAN or SASE, there are two key things you need to consider – what technology platform you use (and it should just be a single platform if at all possible) and who you use to help design and deploy the network (and to manage or co-manage it too, if need be).

By modernising a wide area network to be Software Defined it becomes more manageable with improvements in:

operational visibility
application-aware
network wide policy deployment
agile configuration

Previously complex situations become much easier to manage and change, and many constraints which prevented business and technical evolution can be removed.

Because it is important that an SD-WAN implementation should reflect your business needs (current and anticipated) it is best to employ someone like Blaze who will take time to understand your specific requirements and design a bespoke solution - and not a supplier who will just install their standard design.

Alongside many industry experts, we have selected Fortinet as the technology provider of choice for SD-WAN, SASE and Security Fabric platforms. We are an Expert Fortinet Partner and recognised for our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) expertise. (Blaze has the highest level of certified expertise of any Fortinet partner in the UK).

Blaze creates networks that are secure by design, and which employ Fortinet's latest, industry-leading:

AI-powered security technology
Secure SD-WAN
SASE, and
Cybersecurity mesh architectures (CSMA)

Blaze Networks is the safe, secure, and reliable IT Managed Service Provider for SD-WAN & SASE network managed services

Network security is a key focus for Blaze, and this comes from combining the best and most appropriate technology for each organisation with experts who know how to use it properly.

As an ISO 27001 certified business with a UK Network Operations Centre and Security Operations Centre, we are the preferred partner for providing secure network managed services for hundreds of multi-site businesses in the UK.

The Best SD-WAN & SASE Technology AND the Best Expertise to Deliver Managed Network Services

If you are thinking of improving your network by implementing SD-WAN or SASE you are in the right place. There are many things you need to consider, and it can be a daunting task for many IT professionals and businesses with limited resources.

The network is the foundation of modern business technology, and therefore needs to keep pace with evolving business requirements (and security threats). Blaze works with customers whose IT departments seek an expert partner to assist - including those organisations who have limited IT resource and need to outsource network managed services to a reliable managed service provider.

Blaze also partners with other IT businesses, software houses and consultants who lack the required skill and resources to deliver and manage national wide area network infrastructures (on a wholesale basis, so that our partners can provide customers with a single point of contact).

At Blaze Networks, our objective is to become an extension of your team and to provide a long-lasting strategic relationship that you can depend on.

We help customers manage networks by reducing cost and complexity whilst fully understanding your business goals and requirements.
We align to your objectives and provide implementation services for your new SD-WAN or SASE network technology - building your network around you, for you.
Connectivity, security, management, analytics and proactive support are all part of our core proposition, and we bring everything together - enabling you to work with a single, expert network partner.

Modern UK-wide IT Networks that Improve Cyber Security

IT networks established some time ago may not only have vulnerabilities but may also lack the agility to keep pace with modern security threats. The era of the “build a moat” strategy of defending the core network with a ring of firewalls is long gone. Additionally, because networks are often built-up over time (particularly as new sites are added and distribution centres expanded) a mix of networking equipment and software gets put in place which has varying capability, flexibility, and security – often with multiple management consoles being needed. This is exacerbated if an MPLS architecture has been in place and Software Defined networking (secure SD-WAN and/or SD-Branch) has not been embraced.

As an ISO 27001 certified business with a UK Network Operations Centre and Security Operations Centre, we are the preferred partner for providing secure network managed services for hundreds of multi-site businesses in the UK.