The promise of Cloud, for networks.

NWaaS is a software defined blend of Cloud, network and security technologies, standing apart with its very best of breed makings.

Combining market leading firewall and SD-WAN technologies, NWaaS is designed for organisations wanting to get the most out of a hybrid cloud environment.

Azured helped us completely transform our infrastructure within only 9 months – it was one of the best infrastructure executed projects I’ve seen in 20 years..

Moving from traditional infrastructure into Azure, we adopted Azured’s Network as a Service, giving us Enterprise standard security and reliability without exceeding our budget. Irrespective of the size of council, there’s benefits to gain.. no longer worrying about ‘keeping the lights on’, our focus is now on developing our security practices and generating greater value.

David Bellchambers

Manager Information Technology, Manningham City Council

NWaaS frees organisations from once impossible challenges…

Affordable Network without compromise

Cloud’s promise for delivering market leading cost-efficiency with best in class performance is realised for Networks with NWaaS. Bringing together best of breed enterprise technologies with Palo Alto Networks firewall security, Microsoft Azure and VMWare’s SD-WAN by VeloCloud, NWaaS intelligently delivers the very best of all worlds at an SMB price point.

On-prem reliability with Cloud efficiency

Gone are the days where services are solely provisioned within the confines of your organisation. As it’s likely you’re already benefiting from the utilisation of cloud delivered services, NWaaS is a perfect complement to enhance the reliability of core business services which used to safely reside within the boundaries of your network but are now delivered to you over the Internet (such as Telephony and Video Conferencing).

Cloud-enabled infrastructure

As your organisation increases its Cloud adoption, your existing hub and spoke Network architecture may no longer make much sense for your organisation.

If cloud-enabling your Network is the next check-point on your cloud journey, you will appreciate the ease and speed at which NWaaS can be deployed to both optimise the speed, and neatly smooth over your transition, to cloud delivered services.

Update platforms as-you-go

Adopting new platforms can often force businesses into making bold and drastic changes beyond what’s comfortably manageable. These revolutionary leaps can increase business risk as staff are often forced to quickly adapt to a new platform. Additionally, most businesses incur an increase in financial outlay with long-term supplier or technology lock-ins.

NWaaS enables your business to continue on your Cloud adoption journey at your own pace. Supported by Azure,  NWaaS offers tried and tested bolt-on pathways for further technology adoption with DR, backup, PaaS and security enhancements at your fingertips, allowing you to evolve at your own pace.

Enterprise grade Security at SMB prices

Confidently protect your environment with our security experts. Boasting capability across a multitude of competencies, our team of security specialists are proudly certified in Microsoft, Palo Alto and VMware technologies, ensuring that you get the best support available to maintain the integrity of your most valuable assets.

In addition, NWaaS delivers world leading protection thanks to our partnership with Palo Alto Networks and VMware. Enabling North-South, East-West and Zero Trust security models focused on integrating technologies, you have peace of mind to deliver anywhere, anytime access to your resources.

Affordable Expert management

Cloud has a growing reputation for improving business efficiencies through the integrated and seamless delivery of technology solutions. The rise of as a Service (aaS) has enabled businesses worldwide to make the experts responsible for the health of business applications and now, with Azured, extends to your Network with NWaaS.

A fully managed solution, you can rest Azured your network is in good hands.

Relationship management outsourcing

As a complete managed service solution coupled with our years of experience working alongside Australia’s largest Telcos, our team of professionals will gladly manage these relationships on your behalf; minimising the noise of managing a network and maximising performance of the service to enable you to get on with doing what your business does best.

Control over your own environment

NWaaS frees organisations from provider requisitions, putting you back in control of your own Network with the freedom to choose carriage types & providers, contract terms and technology. NWaaS commoditises the network and security environment- enabling you to dictate the terms by which you grow and evolve.

What is Networks as a Service?

The NWaaS difference

Best of all Worlds

It is rare that a solution does everything well and without a degree of compromise in one aspect or another. However, with Network as a Service you get the best of everything – with no compromises.

Global Transit

Unique to NWaaS, global organisations can appreciate replicating the high speed of their domestic Network abroad.

Power BI Reporting

Visibility into your network like never before, Azured’s Managed Services offers your team actionable insights to maintain and improve the integrity of your network’s health and performance.

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Pay as you Grow

Delivering the promise of cloud for Networks, NWaaS is an Opex supported cost model.

Use our tried and tested means of adopting cloud services as it makes sense to you.

Experts on Demand

Our team of dedicated specialists offer their expertise as an extension of your team; working to support, not replace, your existing IT support services.

Your Cloud, Your Way

NWaaS has been created to put control of your environment back in your hands.

Scale up links and bolt-on technologies as you need to – all the while reducing your attack surface area.

“We used Azured to completely change our IT infrastructure and couldn’t be more thrilled with the work they have performed.

“I have never before been happy with any IT provider. Confusion and things not working as we planned, as well as general lack of caring are rife within IT and Telco companies. So to say I am happy with Azured is the understatement of the century.

“Everything worked – not only as planned, but on time and it was so easy to deal with them it is unbelievable. Not only did they deliver what we asked in terms of functionality but suggested ways of doing it and then acted on it.”

Greg Horner

Managing Director, Leap Australia

The makings of Networks as a Service

The best of all worlds…

Microsoft Azure

A Cloud of the future, Microsoft’s annual investment of $1 billion into cybersecurity is a key contributor to the recent existence of secure and affordable network solutions.

The incorporation of Cloud to Networks means businesses benefit from the ease of scalability, cost efficiency and control over their own growth.

SD-WAN

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) works to simplify and enhance network connectivity and performance.

Through link aggregation, packet steering, constant Layer 7 performance monitoring, traffic shaping, centralised management, automatic failover within seconds, Public Cloud acceleration and option to upgrade devices mid-contract, it comes as no surprise that SD-WAN is fast becoming recognised as the solution of choice for business networks.

FWaaS

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offers a centralised next-gen managed internet gateway in Azure.

Hosting Palo Alto Network’s market-leading firewall technology, FWaaS enables fast and secure remote access, packet inspection, zero day vulnerability, threat prevention & protection and centralised protection of critical services with local offload for trusted sites.

FWaaS also offers seamless enablement of additional security features such as SSL decryption, Global Protect MFA and Global Protect PreLogon.

Carriage

A key feature of NWaaS by Azured allows you to be the master of your own carriage provider.

Proudly carriage agnostic, NWaaS empowers businesses with the freedom to choose the provider best suited to the task.

However, if required, our team can assist with providing ideal carriage configuration recommendations specific to your businesses needs.

Azured Managed Services

Unique to Azured is our Power BI integration. An online dashboard offering visibility into the health of your service and key metric reporting, businesses are equipped to make better decisions. 

Also included with our managed services are Moves Adds and Changes (MACs) delivered by our expert team of security and network engineers. By working together with your IT team, we prioritise maintaining the integrity and security of your environment.

Why We Choose to Work With VMWare

At Azured, we strive to work with the best and VeloCloud’s SD-WAN solution attracting technology giant VMWare, only validated the solution’s position as truly market leading.

As far as WAN edge infrastructure goes, there is no better choice than VMWare’s SD-WAN by VeloCloud. Just ask Gartner…

It’s the unique intelligence of the VeloCloud Orchestrator combined with the assurance derived from VMWare’s reputation which made their SD-WAN solution an easy choice for NWaaS.

Why We Choose to Work With Palo Alto Networks

When only the best will do, we chose to create FWaaS using Palo Alto’s next- generation Firewall.

Palo Alto Networks® next-generation firewalls detect known and unknown threats, including encrypted traffic, using intelligence generated across many thousands of customer deployments. That means they reduce risks and prevent a broad range of attacks.

Quickly create security rules that mirror business policy, are easy to maintain and adapt to your dynamic environment. Reduce response times with automated policy-based actions and automate workflows via integration with administrative tools such as ticketing services or any system with a RESTful API.