Build a globally resilient architecture with Azure Load Balancer

By Dustin Ward

Azure Load Balancer’s global tier is a cloud-native global network load balancing solution. With cross-region Load Balancer, customers can distribute traffic across multiple Azure regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. To better understand the use case of Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer, let’s dive deeper into a customer scenario. In this blog, we’ll learn about…

Azure Virtual WAN simplifies networking needs

By Dustin Ward

Today we are excited to make announcements in multiple areas of Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN), networking as a service that brings networking, security, and routing functionalities together to provide a single operational interface. As enterprises increasingly adopt the cloud while reducing their costs, IT teams looking to consolidate, accelerate, or even revamp their wide area…

Enterprise-grade DDoS protection for SMBs now available in preview

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PDM Manager. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the largest availability and security concerns facing customers that are moving their applications to the cloud. While cyber-attacks are on the rise, they typically make the news only when a large organization has fallen victim…

Visualize and monitor Azure & hybrid networks with Azure Network Watcher

By Dustin Ward

There is a critical need for increased visibility and control over the operational state of complex networks running sophisticated workloads. Multi-cloud and hybrid network environments power new demands of remote work, 5G/Edge connectivity, microservices based workloads, and increased cloud adoption. The advent of the cloud has added agility, cost benefits, and brought along the need…

Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver general availability

By Dustin Ward

A successful hybrid networking strategy demands DNS services that work seamlessly across on-premises and cloud networks. Azure DNS Private Resolver now provides a fully managed recursive resolution and conditional forwarding service for Azure virtual networks. Using this service, you will be able to resolve DNS names hosted in Azure DNS private zones from on-premises networks…

Scalable management of virtualized RAN with Kubernetes

By Dustin Ward

Among the many important reasons why telecommunication companies should be attracted to Microsoft Azure are our network and system management tools. Azure has invested many intellectual and engineering cycles in the development of a sophisticated, robust framework that manages millions of servers and several hundred thousand network elements distributed in over one hundred and forty…