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Colt wins at Leading Lights Awards

We are very pleased to announce that Colt has won the award for Most Innovative Telco Cloud Strategy (Network/Data Centre Operator) at this year’s Leading Lights Awards, held virtually on 21 August.

The judges said that Colt won for its Dedicated Cloud Access solution, allowing customers to access public cloud services with added speed and security benefits.

Colt has been incredibly focused on its cloud proposition for some time, ensuring that however an enterprise wants to connect to the cloud, Colt can facilitate that.

Powering enterprises digital transformations, Colt’s Dedicated Cloud Access (DCA) enables enterprises to capitalise on fast, reliable, and on-demand access to the cloud. This offering puts the power of the cloud and the network underpinning it into the hands of enterprises, allowing them to scale bandwidth up and down in near real-time. Meaning that however quickly a business needs to act – Colt can support that.

Colt’s Dedicated Cloud Access and On Demand offerings are powered by the Colt IQ Network, which is comprised of more than 900 data centres and 29,000 enterprise buildings across Europe, APAC, and the US.

As a business, Colt is focused on transforming the way the world works through the power of connectivity and winning this award highlights our constant drive to deliver the future of telecommunications.

2020 has brought unique global challenges that none of us could foresee. However, we are incredibly proud that the investments we have been undertaking in our network and product portfolio have meant that we have been able to keep our customers and their communities running.

These awards are a sign of the times we’re currently living in: handed out virtually, with us eagerly awaiting the results as they were read online. However, the fact that these awards could even go ahead is a testament to our industry and what it can enable. We’re incredibly proud to receive this award, and we’re just as pleased that our customers can benefit from our innovative cloud offering today.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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