A secure partnership for meeting customers in the cloud Barracuda and Microsoft are tightly integrating their solutions to deliver secure and scalable SD-WAN services By Chris Hill on 23 February 2021 Barracuda and Microsoft have been technical partners for a long time, and together we’ve helped our customers move securely to the public cloud, increasing performance and lowering costs. Our latest innovations – Microsoft Azure Virtual Wide Access Network (vWAN) and Barracuda CloudGen WAN – takes the next logical step in this journey. The Microsoft Global Network is made up of over 160,000 miles of fibre and subsea cables that connect more than 60 Azure regions and 160 Azure edge sites. Last year, Microsoft announced Azure Virtual WAN, a networking service that runs across the MGN. Azure Virtual WAN allows a global transit network architecture by enabling ubiquitous, any-to-any connectivity between globally distributed sets of cloud workloads in virtual networks, branch sites, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service applications, and users.