Blaze Networks Limited

Blaze are a security-focused Managed Services Provider and ISP, delivering network communications and IT services to businesses across the UK.

Blaze is fundamentally a customer and service-focused organisation, dedicated to ensuring our customers’ networks and IT systems are highly dependable, secure, & cost effective.

Blaze is a fully licenced Telecommunications Provider and LIR (Local Internet Registry).

We have particular expertise in the design, implementation and management of private networks based on SD-WAN and secure networking infrastructure.

As a Managed Services Provider and ISP, Blaze offers a wide range of products and services, and in order to deliver exceptional service and value to our customers, we focus on three over-arching priorities: Security, Managed Services, and delivering Agile solutions which can keep pace with the fast-changing world we are in.

Our passion for all things IT led us to build and operate our own communications and cloud network to enable us to cost-effectively address our customers’ needs.

This complete control over the managed services we provide allows Blaze to deliver end to end service level agreements on our customers’ critical infrastructure without involvement from third-party companies. The result is the best response and support the IT industry can offer – and we are always striving to improve.

Our technical teams are the heart of our operation and we adopt and continually strive to improve on our internal framework that allows continuous education and technical change.

This keeps us all ahead of the digital evolution and allows us to transform our customers’ businesses whilst offering the very best technical support available.

We partner with leading manufacturers like Microsoft, Fortinet, Veeam, Bitdefender, HP, Lenovo, Mitel, and Cisco. In doing so Blaze have access to a vast array of products that allow us to overcome our customers’ business challenges and requirements.

Our Story

Founded in May 2002, Blaze Networks Limited has grown and developed as a successful provider of secure Wide Area Networks and a network-centric provider of a comprehensive range of IT services.

Based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, we have grown consistently across two decades, building and developing our capabilities across a comprehensive range of IT and Network services.

Key to these capabilities, Blaze has created a unique network across the UK that employs a highly resilient and secure network design, industry-leading partnerships, and our own UK-based NOC (Network Operations Centre) and Support Desk facilities.

Designed with resiliency and multiple failover protection, the Blaze Private Core Network has delivered 100% uptime for over 10 years.

The business is still an independent company, owned and run by the original founders. This provides continuity and ensures that we focus on customer satisfaction and delivering value to our clients, year after year.

Our People

The culture at Blaze is one of close collaboration among team members and a strong focus on ensuring our customers receive fast, efficient and knowledgeable support.

We take pride and responsibility in delivering successful outcomes for our customers.

We adopt and continually strive to improve on our internal framework that allows continuous education and technical change.

Our engineers and technical team constantly improve their skills through formal training programs and certifications, both in product areas and broader professional skills.

We build the network
You build the business.

Partners

We partner with leading manufacturers like Microsoft, Fortinet, Veeam, Bitdefender, Cisco, Lenovo, Mitel and other industry-leaders.

In doing so, Blaze have access to a vast array of products that allow us to overcome our customers’ business challenges and requirements.

Microsoft

Blaze is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Tier 1 Microsoft CSP Partner. We specialise in Microsoft 365 (including Teams and Teams Phone System), in Microsoft On-Premise and Hosted / Cloud Infrastructure (including Azure), and enable businesses to continue their digital evolution by fully exploiting the latest capabilities of Microsoft products as they evolve.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, Blaze has demonstrated a broad capability to help customers boost productivity and make the shift to hybrid work using Microsoft 365.

Fortinet

Blaze is an Expert Partner of Fortinet, a global industry leader in the supply of secure networking infrastructure systems. Fortinet are our technology partner of choice when building customer-specific Private SD-WANs, and Blaze is one of only a handful of Fortinet SD-WAN Specialization Partners in the UK and a Fortinet top-level Expert Partner. Blaze is also a Fortinet-accredited Managed Secure Solutions Provider (MSSP) and Integrator Fortinet partner. A Leader in several of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, the Fortinet platform combines excellent performance with advanced security features, superb manageability, and excellent Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) per Mbps.

Veeam

Veeam is a highly respected leader in cloud-based backup and recovery software, data protection and advanced monitoring in the data centre.

Blaze is a Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Silver Partner and we have combined Veeam technology with our highly secure Blaze Cloud™ infrastructure to produce BlazeVault™, a highly dependable, secure, and resource-efficient solution which will keep downtime to an absolute minimum in the event of data loss in operational systems or ransomware attack.

Bitdefender

Blaze is a Bitdefender Gold MSP Partner. Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems through OEM technology partnerships, including with many global IT companies. Tests show it is unmatched in Attack Prevention. Based on Bitdefender technology, Blaze Endpoint Protection hardens endpoints to prevent malware and malicious attacks, and it provides the investigation and remediation capabilities needed to dynamically respond to security incidents when they evade protection controls. Blaze Managed EDR keeps your organisation safe with 24×7 security monitoring, advanced attack prevention, detection and remediation.

Cisco

Cisco has long been the world’s pre-eminent network systems vendor, particularly for technology used at the core of major corporate networks and the internet. In addition to using Cisco equipment within our customers’ private networks, Blaze incorporates Cisco technology into the heart of our own network operations; the Blaze Private Core Network is built utilising Enterprise-class CISCO core routing equipment.