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Upgrade your connection for free: Colt gets on board the Super Connected Cities programme
Through the UK Government’s “Super Connected Cities” programme, companies with less than 250 employees are eligible to apply for Connection vouchers worth £3,000 (no longer valid) to equip their businesses with high speed connectivity. Now offered in twenty-two cities, it is available until at least March 2015. The aim is to guarantee 95 per cent…
Read MoreHow to overcome and embrace the pace of IT change
Today’s IT world sees new technological advancements being made every day, but with more options and expectations from technology, many businesses are struggling to keep up and are becoming paralysed by the inability to take the first step to change. To help overcome the complexities associated with new IT systems, speed of technological change and…
Read MoreHow to protect your business
Hardly a week goes by without news of another business facing the threat of a DDoS attack. Distributed denial of service attacks, or DDoS as it is more commonly known, occur when hackers flood a network or server with requests making it unavailable to other legitimate users of the service. These, coupled with the startling…
Read MoreKeeping your data secure
OK, so the New Year resolution has been made: “I will definitely give more attention to the protection of our data.” Good. Nobody wants to end up with the horrible headlines which accompany data theft, hacking or other indiscretions. But do you really know what you’ve signed up for with that resolution? The first thing…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know can’t hurt you… Can it?
For many businesses, learning to let go can be a big deal. Almost inevitably in cloud computing, IT managers and their colleagues must relinquish a degree of control over their hardware and software. This can lead to questions about the efficacy of data protection or security protocols at remote data centres run by cloud providers.
Read MoreFive key questions about service
Service used to be something you expected in a café or shop. Now the technology industry has taken ‘service’ to heart, using the term to wrap-up a new approach to how they deliver their products and expertise. But what about good old-fashioned ‘customer service’? Your IT provider no doubt claims to provide a certain level…
Read MoreYour web traffic – how to get started with Big Data
Six months ago Neelie Kroes, the commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda in Europe, declared that Europe had entered the ‘era of Big Data’. There was a great deal of hype around Big Data, with some declaring it to be Europe’s ‘new oil’. Big Data is essentially the use of large data sets to generate…
Read MoreAre you thinking the right way about using mobile and cloud?
According to a recent article, the integration of cloud-based IT and mobile, could allow SMEs to expand their global reach. The danger is that a business might rush into spending money on an IT approach that doesn’t do the job it should. The opportunity is a big one. Given that many SMEs now sell their…
Read MoreColt provides integral connections for new King’s Cross Business Park
I’m delighted to say that Colt has successfully provided new connections for two customers residing on the new King’s Cross Business Park development in London. This is important for several reasons. First of all Colt was one of the first suppliers allowed on site to start integrating equipment for our customers and secondly the installation…
Read MoreAre you ready for Cyber Security month?
ENISA: the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security is making October all about Cyber Security. Across twenty five countries and over a number of events, talks and other content, ENISA hopes to increase the awareness of Cyber Security for Europe’s businesses. It’s a laudable programme from ENISA. Online protection is something that every…
Read MoreFind your files faster!
The amount of data held by businesses keeps growing and growing. With companies having stored years’ worth of computer-based data, SMEs are looking at more dynamic ways to store information. The Cloud is the place to start, taking away the need for onsite servers and giving scalable hosting for data. In many ways though this…
Read MoreSecurity concerns about moving to cloud services? Look at your SLAs
According to analysts Gartner, many SMEs are still put off Cloud because of security concerns. It is true that businesses want to reduce risk where possible and many such risks are dealt with. So what do companies like ours do to make sure that the worry is managed? The answer is not just in giving…
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