Your trusted cloud provider

At Colt, we understand that the connectivity we provide is your highway to the cloud. That connectivity delivers your applications and ensures that your vital business intelligence is where you need it, when you need it. With our portfolio of cloud services, Colt delivers solutions that provide even more business value, by designing and delivering robust, scalable platforms to host and manage those critical applications and data.

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Our cloud design principles

Our platform agnostic approach, integrating market-leading technologies from strategic partners such as AWS and Azure, along with with Colt’s comprehensive cloud connectivity enables us to create truly end-to-end solutions, supporting our customers’ aspirations and needs.

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Assess

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Assess your enterprise's current infrastructure state, gaps, goals & needs

The initial assessment forms the foundation of a successful project, providing a common understanding of the of the specific business benefits being targeted, identifying potential risks and bottlenecks, and outlining the processes, training, and technology roadmaps to ensure a successful migration.

Discover requirements, skills, and interdependencies

Ensure business value is understood

Establish and clarify design recommendations

Design

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Design an innovative, agile solution to meet business needs

Based on the knowledge and common understanding gathered during the assessment, Colt designs solutions using common building blocks to ensure a solution that is as simple as possible to deploy and maintainOur platform-agnostic approach means we use the technologies which best suit your business needs, without vendor lock-in. 

Use building blocks to create a tailored solution

Integrate best-of-breed technologies

Agree implementation plan

Implement

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Implement agreed designs and specifications to achieve improvements in support of business goals

Colt's highly experienced implementation teams work to ensure that the deployment is managed to formal standards, with project expectations clearly agreed up front and managed to industry best practice standards. 

Ensure implementation conforms to design

Minimise risks through parallel builds and phased migrations

Manage

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Manage the in-life solution to the required specifications

Implementing a successful design is only the initial step; Colt knows that the value of any platform is only realised once it is in productionMonitoring and alerting validate that the solution is continuing to perform as designed, and with consumption and usage-based billing, Colt Cloud Manager gives us a holistic view of running costs, preventing billing surprises and providing essential governance.

Access increased efficiency through orchestration and automation

Ensure solution continues to conform to design and meets business needs

Control costs across your cloud estate, with Colt Cloud Manager reporting and visibility

Optimise

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Optimise the efficiencies and productivity of the solution through innovation

Colt understands that a true solution for a business need needs to evolve with the business. Whether the environment was initially deployed by us or not, we are always ready to re-evaluate your cloud solutions to ensure they both continue to meet your business needs, and that you are taking advantage of more recent cloud technical innovations.

Ensure the architecture remains consistent and relevant

Provide recommendations on emerging technologies

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Our cloud offering

Our platform agnostic approach, integrating market-leading technologies from strategic partners such as AWS and Azure, along with Colt's comprehensive cloud connectivity, enables us to create truly end-to-end solutions, supporting our customers' aspirations and needs.

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Public cloud

Our public cloud services offer a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to leverage the power of cloud computing.

Access from any internet connection

Scale requirements quickly

Pay for what you use

Rapid deployment

Shared infrastructure

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Multi-cloud

With multi-cloud, Colt can help you leverage the resilience and flexibility of hosting workloads in more than one provider.

Easily access shared resources

Scale requirements quickly

Pay for what you use

Added resilience

Interoperability challenges

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Private cloud

For businesses looking for more control and security, our private cloud services offer dedicated resources that are not shared with other users.

Ideal for managing strict regulatory requirements

No data egress fees

More customisable

Less scalability

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Hybrid cloud

Can’t decide between public and private? By combining the scalability of public cloud with the security of private cloud, our hybrid solutions offer unparalleled flexibility.

Suitable for critical applications

Combines security and scalability

Most flexibility

More complex management

Go from Legacy to Limitless

How to take your business to the next level

Reaching the top starts with resilience from the ground up. In today’s digital and cloud-based world, a business performs only as well as the IT infrastructure which supports it.

From modernisation and cost reduction to simplification and automation, learn how to align your network infrastructure with your business objectives for maximum impact.

What are the main areas businesses need to consider when adopting cloud?

Enterprises are often constrained in their capacity to embrace hybrid and multi-cloud technologies due to the inflexibility of their enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and operational processes. Legacy platforms, technologies, and operating models are common blockers, preventing organizations from realizing the benefits and opportunities offered by cloud platforms.

Optimised, future-ready infrastructure

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Providing flexible capacity & agility

Reducing IT costs and improving sustainability

Improving performance & scalability

Cloud sovereignty & security

Integrating people & processes

Application modernisation & multi-cloud

Application

Migrate legacy apps to cloud platforms

Leverage Colt connectivity & security solutions

Provide digital services for consumers

Cloud business models: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS

Shared service platforms

Digital workplace & immersive engagement

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Infrastructure that supports business initiatives

Reach customers in new ways with new ways of working

Improve employee experience

Providing data services to unlock the benefits of AI

Still not sure?

Our recommendation is to use one of the cloud transformation processes to understand your current state and the best solution to support your current and future business needs. Take a look at three of our available assesments below: