Colt's Blog

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. In parallel with the consumer revolution, there’s a sea change in what enterprise IT organisations expect from computing and storage [...] Read more

Cloud storage has been around for a while now and it’s getting bigger all the time: it took six years for the Amazon S3 object storage service to grow to a trillion pieces of data. Last month, less than a year after reaching the one trillion milestone, they reached two trillion objects, and the trend is [...] Read more

Colt recently attended and chaired a couple of sessions (see our slides below) at Telco Cloud World Forum in London on 28-30 April. The event focuses on the development of Cloud-based services from the perspective of telcos and solution providers and this year attracted over 100 telecom operators from 56+ countries. The future of the enterprise [...] Read more

Last month denial of service attacks hit the headlines again. The Spamhaus denial of service attack was called the largest cyber attack in history and this week the Dutch authorities appear to have caught the hacker involved. It was like 1999 again when DDoS attacks first got the press excited. The return of DDoS as a [...] Read more

Many of the conversations we have with our customers have two recurring themes: I need to do more with less and I need to move to a model where I am delivering a service to the business, not just managing technology. For many CIOs this means outsourcing the everyday IT to service providers but what does [...] Read more