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Gary Carr has been named Colt’s CFO, bringing 23 years’ leadership experience across the telecommunications, IT and financial services sectors.

Last week I had the great privilege to participate in a few different sessions as part of the Capacity Europe event held in London –…

At last week’s 15th Annual Global Carrier Awards, Colt collected trophies in two categories; Best SDN/NFV Deployment and Best Cloud Innovation.

What do businesses want from service providers? It’s a question we’re continually trying to answer because we aim to not simply meet, but exceed our…

The growth of cloud connectivity via public internet has shown no sign of abating, driven by continued growth in adoption of SaaS and SD WAN deployment on enterprise networks.

Google Next is where we can all come together in the same space to share big ideas and actively make the cloud stronger. Whether you’re…

To continue to support organisations’ on-going cloud migrations, Colt is deepening its collaboration with Microsoft becoming a partner of its Microsoft Azure Peering Service and Azure Networking Managed Service Provider programmes.

Next week Colt will be in Barcelona for the annual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo and once again it promises to be a great event. The theme…

Last week, Google announced the launch of the Cloud Pathfinder for Google Cloud app that enables enterprises to find the best connectivity route to Google Cloud from any on net building or data centre worldwide.

Colt is further investing in its Colt IQ Network, ensuring it remains ready to power organisations’ digital transformations – both today and in the future.

Last week, Colt walked away from the Network Transformation Awards Gala Dinner with both awards it was nominated for; Operator Award – SD WAN Service…

21st November, London

Are women’s networks too insular? How can we make them more inclusive? Should men be encouraged to join? Should women only networks be replaced by diversity networks? It’s time for a lively debate!

1-3 December, Birmingham

UKISUG Connect is three days of education and knowledge rich content for you to take in and share with your colleagues and revolutionise how your organisation runs SAP.

Louisa Gregory, Chief of Staff, discusses empowerment and influence in leadership. Really how powerful is ultimate decision making versus influence?

All over the world, cities are growing at unprecedented scale and this brings a new set of challenges; from space management to mobility, resources, public…

Insight Hub Building a network to support the Internet of Things How billions of connected devices will change the shape of networks Connected devices will…

Recently, Colt attended the Microsoft Future Decoded event in London. Tim Cook, Director – Sales Specialist Voice reflects on the event and the role of Unified Communications in today’s workplace.

Colt has re-affirmed its claim to be a best-in-class service provider by gaining compliance to the new ISO 20000-1:2018 certification for service management. ISO 20000…

Walk through the door of any Welkin & Meraki serviced office building and it feels like you’ve stepped inside a five-star hotel. A welcoming, beautifully…

Why does the modern network need an evolution to universal CPE? What benefits does shifting to Virtual Network Functions represent? And how do combining technologies with uCPE lead to a software defined edge?

uCPE (or Universal Customer Premise equipment), is a general purpose platform that integrates compute, storage and networking on a commodity, off-the-shelf server, allowing it to provide network services (such as SD WAN, firewall etc.) as virtual functions to any site on a network. uCPE is the equivalent of a “Cloud for network services”, but at the customer premise.

Colt Technology Services has announced its enhanced universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) solution, which brings the benefits of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) to enterprises.

October 28-31, London
As the largest carrier event in Europe, Capacity Europe is the unmissable annual meeting for carriers, data centres, IXPs, ISPs, cloud & content providers and infrastructure vendors.

As the market leader, SAP is moving customers towards the cloud and, by 2025 all SAP on-premise databases will need be migrated towards cloud-based solutions.

In the domain of customer experience, digital reigns supreme.  There is not minute that goes by without another start up slipping into my inbox with…

View on demand: 5 Pitfalls of cloud deployment – and how to avoid them With more than 75% of enterprises running at least one application…

Last week I was privileged enough to attend the first-ever Global Women in Telco and Tech Awards, which was hosted by Capacity Media. The event…

CEO Carl Grivner reflects on the success of Colt’s eighth Annual Charity Bike Ride.

Yasutaka Mizutani has been named as the organisations new CMO, bringing his wealth of experience at Colt to the position.

Colt Technology Services has today announced that Colt Online, Colt’s user-friendly online tool for Colt customers and partners, is now available for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Colt has consolidated its position on the Vertical Systems Global Ethernet Leaderboard, holding second spot thanks to continued network expansion and customer growth in Europe, Asia…

This year’s ride will see more than 130 Colt employees cycling 540 kilometres over four days, across Germany and Austria, to help vulnerable children. Berlin,…

An experienced HR professional, Suchitra Rajendra will be responsible for not only the region’s HR but also championing Colt India’s operations and aligning them to…

Hitachi, Ltd., founded in 1910, implements Colt IP Access and Colt IP Guardian to create a secure and stable Internet environment.

With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.92 million, and DDoS attacks increasing by 967% this year alone, there’s never been a more important time to secure your network.

November 3-7, Barcelona

A truly digital society cannot happen unless backed by the right connectivity, and the Colt IQ Network connects over 27,500 buildings and more than 900 data centres around the world.

What is the importance of cloud computing? What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is simply the delivery of on-demand services, from using computer applications to…

1st-2nd October, 2019

Please join Colt at stand 35 to come and learn more about our valuable partnership with Microsoft, and how together we can enable customers with their intelligent communications and digital transformation goals.

Customer experience is fast becoming a differentiator for many businesses, at Colt for example our vision is to be the most customer oriented business in…

Colt Technology Services today announced that it will enable enterprises direct, on-demand connections to Google Cloud globally.

Hitachi Systems, an IT service provider that builds enterprise systems of all sizes for broad industries, selects Colt Ethernet Line.

Colt Technology Services has today announced that it will further extend its presence in Japan by expanding the Colt IQ Network to Kyoto and Kobe.

16-19 September 2019


Meet Colt at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco to discover how cloud computing connectivity will power digital transformations of the future

Over the past year, we have been working with Night Zookeeper and are delighted at the progress we have made during this time. Night Zookeeper…

This quarter we reported an NPS of 52 – which equals the highest NPS we have achieved as a business. Based on Satmetrix ‘Telecommunications 2018 B2B Benchmark’ this puts us firmly in industry leading territory.

Watch the webinar on SD WAN uCPE: Revolutionising the Network Edge with Colt Now Available On Demand Join us for the 3rd instalment in our…

Watch the Colt webinar on SD WAN: What’s the reality and how can it work for me? Now Available On Demand SD WAN is one…

The Future Workplace: Your migration to Intelligent Communications with Colt How valuable is your time? If you could get back an hour in your diary…

SD WAN: After the hype, how to implement it in your business Date: Wednesday 15th May Time: 3:30pm BST Having started our SD WAN approach in 2015,…

Over-the-top (OTT) has officially gone mainstream. With the global market value of OTT expected to rise to €128 billion by 2022, businesses need to keep up with unprecedented levels of bandwidth demand.

The Illuminated River Project is an ambitious, public art commission which involves lighting up 15 bridges on the River Thames.

Machine learning is defined as the application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being…

28th August 2019

We are proud to launch Colt’s Armed Forces Career Transition (ACT) Programme with an interactive, engaging event. Service leavers from across the UK will be coming together to gain an insight into a career in technology and what it can offer, in a fun, informal environment.

Last month I joined over 7,000 people from close to 2,000 companies, get together in Atlanta, Georgia (which I personally dubbed ‘Hot-lanta’ due to the…

On the 27 June, I attended the Women in Sales Summit 2019 event at the ExCel in London where I was part of a panel…

The partnership signals Colt’s increased and growing coverage in Central and Eastern Europe  London, UK, 02 July 2019 – Colt Technology Services has today announced…

When did you last think about what happens under a manhole cover? Under these, Colt connects businesses so they can access cloud services, send emails,…

The industry is getting ever closer to frictionless networking and Colt, along with collaborators – AT&T, the GLF and MEF – is leading the charge.

The companies have been working together to implement MEF’s groundbreaking APIs, allowing for seamless ordering of Ethernet connections London and Dallas, June 24, 2019 —…

This week it was announced that Colt, in partnership with SIA, has been awarded the ability to provide connectivity to the ESMIG interface (Eurosystem Single…

Last week, Colt was named the “Cloud Change Agent of the Year” winner at Ingram Micro’s 2019 UK Cloud Summit in London. Colt was recognised…

The Sibiu International Marathon is the largest charity running event in Romania and all about being part of the community and supporting local causes. This…

For this major international provider of insurance services, reliable, high-quality connectivity is critical — and increasingly so as it pursues a strategy of migration to…

It’s been a whirlwind few months since I joined Colt, particularly in the last month with speaking assignments at three big events on the future…

Colt has offered a fully redundant configuration combining services with different backbone lines, enabling us to have stable cloud connectivity…

A client distribution network with a tailored service wrap delivers business outcomes

25th June 2019

Join Colt and partners as they discuss the trends driving intelligence towards the edge of the network, how to navigate the future network of content, and if 5G is going to shake up the network as we know it today.

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of networking at events, including one hosted by Network 25, our women’s network at Colt, and one of the…

The fascinating paradigm we’re currently facing is that, as the world disconnects from cables and moves wireless and the wireless access point moves closer to…

Colt Technology Services continues to drive secure, reliable, low latency and high bandwidth connectivity to the Oracle Cloud as it furthers its presence in Japan.

23-26th June 2019

ITW (International Telecoms Week) is the annual meeting for the global wholesale telecoms industry, providing a platform for 6,939 delegates from 2,081 companies and more than 135 countries to meet together and network.

24th June, 2019

Please join Colt and Ciena for an Evening Reception with drinks & canapes on Monday 24th June at TheWhite Oak Kitchen & Cocktail Bar to kick off another International Telecoms Week.

The start-up DefinedCrowd has a platform that allows data scientists to collect, structure and enrich high-quality data to train artificial intelligence algorithms. The quality of…

Colt Technology Services has today announced a significant expansion to its SDN enabled On Demand portfolio, with the introduction of new high bandwidth solutions options available for enterprise and service provider customers.

Business IP traffic is growing at a CAGR of 23%, with Cisco predicting it will total over 63 Exabytes (EB) permonth by 2022 as more applications move to the cloud and new online services compete for attention.

Colt Technology Services has today announced the appointment of Melanie Halsey as the Executive Vice President (EVP) – Human Resources, reporting to Carl Grivner, Colt’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and joining the companies’ Executive Leadership Team.

The Capital Markets industry is experiencing a fundamental transformation. As more applications and services move to the cloud, businesses are consuming more bandwidth, managing new…

15th May 2019

Interxion Carrier Roundtable has the great honour of presenting Colt as the host of the spring 2019 event in Stockholm, where we ask “Can Connectivity be linked to Customer Experience?”

Connectivity has always been at the heart of the capital markets and it’s an area currently undergoing considerable change.

London, UK, 20th March 2019 – Colt Technology Services, a provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, is working with Cisco to add greater flexibility to…

This US-based proprietary trading firm conducts around a million trades every day on exchanges all over the world. To maintain exceptional trading performance, it colocates…

According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, by 2021 94% of workloads and compute instances will be processed by cloud data centres. For enterprises it’s long past the question of if they’ll move to the cloud; but to what extent and when.

Many large enterprises in Denmark – especially those that operate in regulated industries such as life sciences, pharmaceuticals and financial services – choose to work…

Colt has further strengthened its relationship with interactive learning initiative Night Zookeeper, with Colt’s UK employees now mentoring children and coaching them on their writing…

“As we release our 2018 gender pay gap report, I’m pleased to say that we are busy ramping up our efforts to attract great female…

The way we work is changing. Following our paper on the Future Network, here we look at the behaviours and technologies driving the future workplace…

The hashtag call to action for the recently celebrated International Women’s Day 2019, is #BalanceforBetter, and I’m a big believer in the importance…

We are currently in the midst of a generational shift in computing architecture to the cloud. The ecosystem of IT suppliers which has existed in relative st

Colt has climbed from third to second in the Vertical Systems 2018 Global Ethernet Provider Leaderboard, holding its position from the mid-year update.

5G was one of the major talking points at MWC and intelligent connectivity will be key to realising the full potential of 5G networks.

The solution developed by Colt involved implementing the IP Access service, enabling Forbes to make content available over the Internet.

A Europe-wide SD WAN from Colt underpins the bank’s digital transformation programme.

The way we work is changing. Today’s employees want open spaces, easy collaboration and the ability to fit work around the times of day when they are at

To all valued customers, we thank you very much for your continuous support to Colt Technology Services Co.,Ltd. We are pleased to announce that you can

Microsoft Teams has the potential to significantly improve productivity, but the migration needs to be managed carefully.

25-28th February 2019

Meet with one of our specialists to see how Colt can power your Future Network at the Mobile World Congress 2019, hosted in Barcelona.

Business today is all about the customer. As enterprises look to avoid a race to the bottom, both corporate and consumer-facing companies are increasingly

Study finds connectivity plays a crucial role in helping organisations achieve their customer experience objectives.