MIT Technology Review & Azure present: Azure Networking Services

Today’s reality is that work happens everywhere, so organizations are relying more than ever on networks to manage, connect, power, and secure everything they do.
Looking for a network solution that can optimize performance and tighten security for your business? Enter Azure Networking Services. Explore how to ease the complexity of remote work, maximize edge intelligence, and keep your data secure with a zero-trust model.
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Today’s reality is that work happens everywhere, so organizations are relying more than ever on networks to manage, connect, power, and secure everything they do.
The process of building, maintaining, and securing those networks has reached a level of complexity that’s nearly as wild as a hybrid workforce.
But having the right network services solution isn’t a “nice-to-have.” If your business isn’t on top of optimizing performance both in and out of the office, you’re not in the game.
The right solution can ease the complexity of remote work, maximize the value of edge intelligence, and tighten security to better protect people and data. That’s important for several reasons.
For starters, businesses that don’t have a secure network infrastructure face both internal and external threats. Costly cyber attacks have the potential to shut down a small or even midsize business permanently.
Azure Networking Services - with built-in availability, scalability, and reliability - enables industry-leading service level agreements that help ensure business continuity even during traffic spikes and latency issues, while promoting security via a zero trust model.
Azure is working with healthcare providers to better protect patient privacy, financial institutions to prevent fraud, and retail companies to offer frictionless checkout and optimize supply chains.
Keeping your business operational in any scenario comes down to a modern, secure network. As bad actors get more creative and network attacks more sophisticated, those networks must follow suit with strategic protection.
And let’s not forget that data is available everywhere. It takes networking services to connect all that data in order to derive actionable business intelligence, and to ensure they stay connected in critical scenarios no matter the latency required.
The landscape has changed, and it will continue to do so. Companies that want to keep up will have to stay laser-focused on network innovation.
And one of the best ways to do that is with partners like Azure Networking and Network Security Services, those who are dedicated to providing the very capabilities needed to meet the world of work where it is today, and wherever it goes tomorrow.