Industry Analysts

Welcome to Colt’s industry analyst portal. We’ve created this portal to ensure you have constant access to the most relevant and useful information about Colt. You’ll continue to receive our regular analyst briefings and we will send you Colt company news and updates as we’ve done in the past. But now you will be able to access the same information and resources from one reliable online source as well.

Read our recent news including our latest financial results, and learn about our recent developments in enhancing our service portfolio and network infrastructure. We launched our integrated managed compute and managed networking capabilities across both direct and indirect channels. In 2013 we have leveraged our ThinkGrid acquisition to develop the specialised offering for the SME market via the indirect channel (branded Ceano – read the full announcement), and continued to invest in our in-house development for the direct offering to enterprise customers. This is receiving positive feedback in the market. On network infrastructure, we extended our high capacity routes to Cork in Ireland and to seven new cities in Germany. Read also about Verne Global selects Colt to expand data centre capacity in Iceland (28 February 2012) and about our new enterprise hosted Unified Communications services (19 February 2013).

Please give us your feedback on how you would like to see this portal develop, I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Helen Toft, External Communications Director

News

Link to Colt’s News Centre 


Events 

Link to Colt’s Events Centre 


Colt in the Media

Read Colt’s latest mentions in the media:

ChannelPro, 5 december 2011: Preparing the network for cloud computing
Colt’s Steve Hughes describes how although the concept of “cloud computing” is not new, it is undisputable that it has captured the imagination of the IT industry and will play a large part in the ICT domain over the next decade and beyond.

ChannelPro, 24 November 2011: Magirus and Colt partner for cloud delivery
Pan-European distie Magirus and telco Colt have signed an agreement to extend Colt’s cloud offering to 6000 channel partners across the region. In a first for both companies, the deal will provide infrastructure as a service (IAAS) based on the VMware vCloud architecture.

TechWorld, 17 November 2011: Green Grid: Modular data centres are more efficient
Modular and prefabricated data centres are significantly cheaper and more energy-efficient than traditional site-constructed facilities, according to a new report from The Green Grid.

The Guardian, 17 October 2011: Is the game up for hackers?
While many IT managers remain sceptical about storing company data off-site, there are many ways in which the dangers can be minimised. Colt’s Steve Hughes highlights cloud security tips for IT managers.

Total Telecom, 18 October 2011: Imitation is the worst form of cloud innovation
Analyst article published further to the NetEvent Conference in Rome where Informa’s Camille Mendler indicated that service providers would benefit from following Colt's lead as a 'Local Hero', developing refined solutions for specific regions. Colt, Mendler said, is "particularly good" at differentiating their products by ensuring services comply with privacy and security legislation across individual countries.”

IDG Connect, 13 October 2011: Bernard Geoghegan (UK) - Can We Truly Get 100% Renewable Energy?
Blog post by Colt’s Bernard Geoghegan discussing how pragmatic we need to be through the ‘green wash’.

Capacity Magazine, 11 October 2011: An agile approach
As EVP of Colt Communication Services, Francois Eloy is in a position to redesign Colt’s business relationships. But what are the issues which have led him to make these changes, and what broader changes does he foresee for the telecoms industry at large? Angela Partington reports.

BBC News, 15 September 2011: Consumers push workplace change
Colt’s Mark Leonard gives out his current biggest technology problem, the next big thing in our industry and the biggest technology mistake he’s made.

 

 

Customers

VERA

  • IT consultancy and service provider VERA supports local government organisations in Belgium's Flemish Brabant province. The Belgian government uses cloud and outsourced computing models itself and is actively encouraging local government organisations to adopt them too. Because the agreement between Colt and VERA was based on a European government tender, it can be used as a blueprint for any local government organisation in the country that wants to migrate to Colt's cloud-based service. Read how Colt’s Cloud Infrastructure Service gives VERA and its customers a platform for the future.

Tri-Systems

Link to Colt’s case studies page

Social Media

We broadcast our company news and opinions through @Colt_Technology. Simultaneously, our Principal Cloud Analyst Steve Hughes feeds our Enterprise cloud specific channel, @Coltandthecloud. Read our live interactions on Twitter and engage with us! Here’s a couple of recent tweets we’ve liked from Industry analysts:

  • From: @cmendler,Camille Mendler Informa analyst, telecom, cloud, verticals, managed services, general angst:
    @Colt_Technology It was a bad hair day for me, but a great awards day for Colt! Congratulations!
  • From: @jeibisch_idc,  James Eibisch, IDC IDC analyst covering European carrier Ethernet, IP VPN, colocation, datacentre/datacenter, cloud computing, Web hosting markets:
    http://bit.ly/o9M5Ei - Congrats to Colt, Verizon, GTS, Broadnet on their MEF EMEA Ethernet award wins
  • From: @StefanRied, Stefan Ried Forrester Analyst for Cloud, SaaS and Middleware/ERP platforms:
    vCloud partner Softbank, Colt, Singtel and Bluelock formed the global connect alliance. Reminds me of Lufthansa Star-Alliance #vmworld

Link to Colt’s Twitter channel.

Watch Colt’s latest videos on our Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/ColtTechnology which recently include:

  • The interview of Christophe Olivier from our Media customer in France, Canal+.
  • The interview of Thordur Hilmarsson, discussing why enterprises are investing in Iceland.

Blog

Colt’s first guest blogger is Lisa Rhodes, highlights how the idea emerged of tapping into Iceland’s 100%, dual sourced, renewable power grid and build a high-capacity data centre campus that could service the Western European and Eastern North American markets. Read Verne Global – The Big Idea.

Colt’s Steve Hughes discusses the concept of a cloud broker pushed by both Forrester and Gartner, in light of the NIST definitions. Read Is there a role for cloud brokers?

Link to Colt’s Blog
 

Presentations

Ask us for our recent presentations, which include:

  • Colt’s CEO Rakesh Bhasin latest presentation at Carriers World end September 2011, highlighting to the industry his vision of the Carrier of the Future and what are the key transformation steps Carriers need to consider
  • Colt’s Simon Walsh recent presentation at the at the September 2011 CIO Europe Summit about Making Clouds work across Europe, quoting Forrester’s James Staten.
  • Colt’s 2012 Industry Analyst Event full presentations held in London in May as well as our customer’s presentations.
  • Read our most up to date Colt corporate facts sheet and visit our Wikipedia page.

Industry Analysts Contacts

For Colt Group General Industry Analyst enquiries please contact:

Helen Toft (Colt) :
+447855301078
Email: colt@loudhouse.co.uk

François d’Essertaux (Colt):
+44 (0)7538095485
Email: colt@loudhouse.co.uk

Duncan Chapple (Loudhouse):
0845 5057770
+44(0)7815 441 954
Email : colt@loudhouse.co.uk

Agi Donnithorne (Loudhouse):
0845 5057770
+44(0)7595 003328
Email : colt@loudhouse.co.uk

If you are not an Industry Analyst, please call +44 (0) 20 7390 3900 or chat online to speak to a Colt support representative. Or, if you are from the Media view our Press Office Contacts here.

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