Colt: Blogs (UK English)

Sharing the network virtualisation dividend for real on demand bandwidth

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Peter Coppens

Instant gratification is a trend of our age. We both expect and want products and services now. And this is fulfilled by a new powerful nexus of online services, smart devices, supply chains and much more.

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Cloud storage: what does it really mean for you?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00

Blog post by: William Wetton

Colt Cloud Storage: Business of all sizes are starting to realise the impact and benefits of cloud storage to their organisation.

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Views from Telco Cloud World Forum

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Javier Lecanda

Javier Lecanda presents on the future of the enterprise desktop

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DDoS Attacks More Than Just Last Month’s Newspaper Headlines

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 7 May 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Stefano Maifreni

Stefano Maifreni takes a look at recent Denial of Service attacks

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Outsource, Managed Service or Cloud...

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Hugo Harber

Hugo Harber looks at the value of our service definitions

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What really makes an eTown? (an alternative view to Google)

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Scott Allen

Scott Allen takes a critical look at e-Towns

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Custom built Data Centres

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Guy Ruddock

Guy Ruddock takes a look at Colt's data centre building capability.

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Colt Ceano – new range of simplified on-demand services for SMEs

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Francois Eloy

Francois Eloy writes about the launch of Colt Ceano

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Trust is essential in building high performance partnerships

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 8 Apr 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Gideon Wilkins

Gideon Wilkins looks at how planning is a key part of trust.

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Is there still room for a CIO and a CMO at the top table?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Scott Allen

Scott Allen examines the challenges now facing CIOs and CMOs.

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My first Facebook post... over IPv6

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Nicolas Fischbach

Nico talks about his first Facebook post over IPv6 and the many pieces of hardware and software involved along the chain that required upgrades and changes to support IPv6.

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Network as a Service – Flexibility as Standard

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Matthias Hain

The future suggests that NaaS will mean increased flexibility.

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Colt recognised by VMware with EMEA Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Competency Partner of the Year award

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Gary Moore

Gary Moore talks about the exciting start to 2013 as Colt is recognised with the VMware Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Competency Partner of the Year award for the EMEA region.

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Carrier Ethernet with Class

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Matthias Hain

Matthias Hain writes on Carrier Ethernet 2.0

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Colt wins VMware Service Provider Programme partner of the year for UK & Ireland

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00

Blog post by: Gary Moore

Gary Moore on another great accolade for Colt

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Colt wins “Innovation in a Medium Data Centre” award at the DCD awards 2012

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Guy Ruddock

Guy Ruddock explains Colt's award-winning Data Centre success

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Can your business continuity team prepare for an event like Hurricane Sandy?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Hugh Cumberland

With events like Hurricane Sandy severely testing business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, how can enterprises plan even better to ensure they can keep running, whatever happens?

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Can both microwave and fibre turn up the heat on HFT?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Andy Young

Andy Young takes a look at the increasing use of Microwave

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Wholesale IP VPN – What makes Colt unique?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Matthias Hain

Matthias Hain, Director of Data Services for Colt, takes a look at the Wholesale IP VPN challenge

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Software-defined networking — the journey starts now

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Javier Benitez

Software-defined networking (SDN) — the decoupling of the control plane from the data plane — promises to revolutionise the way we run our networks. At Colt, we’re evaluating the technology and this article looks at the steps, and challenges, ahead.

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Trading in Asia – How to Capitalise on the “Un-tapped” Market

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Adela Matsutani

Adela Matsutani, Vice President of Enterprise Market, Financial Industry Sales at KVH discusses capitalising on the Asian market.

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Colt security expert recognised with award in honour of Ron Knode

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes profiles award-winning Colt security expert Bernd Jäger

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You want flex? You got flex!

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Victor Smith

Victor Smith, Director, Product Development for Colt Data Centre Services on Colt ftec

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What do we want? Future-proofing! When do we want it? Now!

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 8 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Guy Ruddock

Guy Ruddock, VP of Design and Delivery for Colt Data Centre Services, takes-up the Future Proofing agenda

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Taking on the Nexus Of Forces at Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Barcelona, 5-8 November

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes looks ahead to Gartner Symposium next week

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The Tech Industry Channel Is Cloud-Confused; Colt Technology Services Is Well Into It

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Peter O'Neill

Peter O'Neill takes a look at how Colt is leading the way with its Cloud Strategy. This post originally appeared on Forrester's own blog.

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Colt’s “intrapreneurship” journey

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Alessandro Vigilante

How Colt’s Innovation & Prototyping Team created an entrepreneurial culture.

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vCloud from Colt – Customer and Channel Ready

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Gary Moore

At VMworld Europe, Colt’s Gary Moore presented the new vCloud 5.1 rollout. Here Gary talks about what it means for customers and the Channel.

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The CIO of 2015

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Alessandro Vigilante

Alessandro Vigilante examines the changing role of the CIO

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Why IT will never be the same again

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 1 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes takes a look at how IT is being changed forever.

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Colt delivers in-house legal team innovation

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 9 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Robin Saphra

Robin Saphra explains about innovation within Colt's legal team.

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Let's think twice about the self-service bandwagon

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Andrew Radley

Self-service is one of the central ideas underpinning the concept of cloud computing, or IT delivered as a service. It's become an unquestioned assumption that customers want self-service, for every element of IT service delivery. We think that's an assumption too far.

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Gaining traction - building Cloud-based revenue

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 8 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Rob Lovell

Rob Lovell is the Director of ThinkGrid, within Colt’s CCS team and is responsible for successfully delivering Colt’s vision of becoming the platform of choice for IT solutions providers to build their own versatile cloud business.

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CPE: From Customer Premises Equipment to Cloud Powered Experience

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 4 Oct 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Nicolas Fischbach

Nicolas Fischbach takes a look at CPEs

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Real-time IT management from the Cloud – ThinkGrid’s Channel Advantage

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Andreas Kederer

Colt’s Andreas Kederer on how ThinkGrid will benefit our Channel Partners

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Big Data is getting bigger and bigger

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Gideon Wilkins

Gideon Wilkins takes a look at Big Data Growth

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Colt’s managed broadcast network sparks great interest at IBC

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Ken Wood

Ken Wood, Colt’s Media Sector Lead returns from the International Broadcasting Conference.

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Emerging Markets create new opportunities at Wholesale World Congress

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Peter Hutchings

Peter Hutchings, Vice President of Voice Trading writes about Colt attending Wholesale World Congress in Madrid this week.

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Tier III Design Certification for Modular Data Centre brings great benefits

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Victor Smith

Certification from the Uptime Institute reinforces design standard for Colt’s data centres

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The real meaning of outages; coming full circle on resilient cloud

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Carl Brooks

Colt is always keen to support discussion on key issues affecting customers and service providers. In a recent research piece on www.451research.com, Carl Brooks from 451 Research addressed the issue of service outages and its impact on this new IT-as-a-service world. We felt it was so well argued and balanced that it needed a wider audience. Thanks to 451 Research for allowing us to repost this as a guest blog.

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Future Proofing the Financial Sector

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Hugh Cumberland

In the face of uncertainty around regulation, the banks that adapt fastest will win

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An Important Step

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Rob Lovell

Rob Lovell, CEO of ThinkGrid discusses their approach to Channel: Platform, Services and Enablement

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BYOD in practice

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Chris Hewertson

Chris Hewertson on BYOD and Colt

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Strengthening the opportunity for SMEs and Cloud

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Francois Eloy

The acquisition of ThinkGrid by Colt provides new reach for Small and Medium businesses

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Deployment of a new Modular Data Centre in Paris

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Victor Smith

Regulatory Requirements, Transportation Logistics and Installation

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Make the most of voice communication systems, lower costs and improve quality

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Dr Joachim Sinzig

Maximise spending with a billing option suitable for your organisation

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Our journey towards Network Programmability

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Nicolas Fischbach

Nicolas Fischbach, Director Network & IT Platform Strategy and Architecture looks at a programmable network

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Colt win Modular Data Centre Award from Data Centre Awards 2012

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Bernard Geoghegan

Bernard Geoghegan on a great award win for Colt Data Centre Services.

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Finally, evidence that high speed trading makes markets stronger

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Hugh Cumberland

Hugh Cumberland takes a look at how HFT is building a stronger market

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Are we hiding behind data protection? Is it the new health and safety?

coltpublicrelations@colt.net — Tue, 3 Jul 2012 00:00

Blog post by: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes takes a look at data protection, sovereignty and the Cloud

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