A study commissioned by Colt Technology Services shows that UK CIOs are more concerned with EU regulation than their own local laws. According to the study conducted by Forrester Consulting across eight European countries, 34% of UK CIOs regard EU regulation, such as the Data Protection Directive*, as more important than local data protection regulation. Across Europe, 30% of CIOs rated EU regulation as more important than their local country laws. Read more.
Colt Technology Services today announced that it has introduced a microwave service between London and Frankfurt. The new service will complement Colt’s existing ultra low latency fibre services and makes Colt the first managed services provider to offer both microwave and fibre ultra-low latency services between these two significant trading centres. Trading houses to reduce the time it takes to access the market by up to 40%, and Colt customers only have one service provider to manage. Read more.
Colt’s next generation ftec data centre delivers cost certainty for CIOs now and in the future Read more.
Colt Technology Services in partnership with NEC is conducting the first ever live trials of Small Cells using Femto-as-a-Service (FaaS) with a leading, large-scale European mobile operator, using a multi-operator Small Cell (Femto) Gateway. Read more.
Colt Technology Services has announced it is the first service provider to implement a pan-European vCloud platform, based on the new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1. Colt now operates the largest and most extensive vCloud ® Datacenter Service estate in Europe. Colt is also building on these extended vCloud capabilities by launching complementary backup and disaster recovery services for vCloud, designed specifically to address the needs of its channel partners. Read more.
Colt has announced the launch of a new hosted contact centre solution, designed to enable resellers to build and manage their own contact centre services for their customers. The new solution provides a highly functional and easy-to-use platform to help resellers serve the needs of the 50-250 seat contact centre market. The service will initially be available in the UK and Ireland, ahead of a wider roll-out across Europe next year, starting with Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Read more.
Colt Technology Services has received four MEF awards presented at Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Barcelona in the categories: Best Carrier Ethernet Business Application – both Online Business and Professional Services Business verticals, Best Marketing and the overall Regional Service Provider of the Year. This is the eighth consecutive year that Colt has collected MEF awards, and confirms Colt’s leadership in Ethernet services and the strength of its pioneering Ethernet services portfolio. Read more.
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