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What is digital infrastructure?

February 7, 2023

What is digital infrastructure? How a flexible, secure and intelligent foundation can make the difference to your business What is digital infrastructure? Digital infrastructure is the foundation of any connected…

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What are APIs

September 8, 2022

Get the lowdown on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) The ABCs of APIs There’s been plenty of talk and interest in APIs over the past few years, with them becoming more…

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UCaaS vs CCaaS

June 10, 2022

In this guide, we’ll break down the implementations for UCaaS and CCaaS, their strengths, weaknesses and how you can integrate this critical functionality into your organisation. UCaaS vs CCaaS UCaaS…

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How to become the modern CIO through the power of partnerships

March 14, 2022

Learn how to prepare your business for the hybrid workforce and implement a successful digital transformation strategy.  

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SDN Explained

November 22, 2021

With recent exponential growth of network demand with the rise of multimedia on demand content, cloud computing and increasing mobile usage – businesses have been facing increasing pressure to reduce costs & maintain capacity to keep in line with customer demand. In this guide, we aim to break down the compontents, advantages & industry implications of moving to SDN.

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Powering the next generation of online gamers

November 4, 2021

Powering the next generation of online gamers Don’t let your network ruin your end-users cloud gaming experience Jump to: Transform cloud gaming The network’s perspective Bringing the cloud to you…

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What is SASE?

October 31, 2021

Secure Access Service Edge, better known as SASE is a recently emerging term, coined originally by Gartner in 2019. SASE is the convergence of modern WAN services and network security services into a single cloud based service model.

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Hybrid Cloud Explained

October 14, 2021

Hybrid cloud is rapidly becoming the cloud model of choice for organisations seeking the best of all worlds. But if a hybrid or multi-cloud deployment is not supported by the right connectivity, then a poor experience can result and expected dividends fail to materialise.

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What is Universal CPE?

May 28, 2021

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.

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Cloud connect explained

May 27, 2021

IP connect, cloud connect, direct connect, dedicated interconnect, direct link, fast connect …… What does it all mean?!? Introduction to cloud connectivity Many Network Service Providers (NSP’s) have a range…

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Connecting to Oracle Cloud with Colt On Demand

June 18, 2020

Connecting to Oracle with Colt On Demand An introduction to the On Demand cloud experience Cloud computing delivers well known benefits, but the end-user experience can only ever be as good…

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What is Unified Communications (UC)?

May 7, 2020

Unified Communications describes the integration of multiple communication methods (such as Email, Phone, Video and Messaging) within a business.

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