Colt's Blog

Colt recently attended and chaired a couple of sessions (see our slides below) at Telco Cloud World Forum in London on 28-30 April. The event focuses on the development of Cloud-based services from the perspective of telcos and solution providers and this year attracted over 100 telecom operators from 56+ countries. The future of the enterprise [...] Read more

Last month denial of service attacks hit the headlines again. The Spamhaus denial of service attack was called the largest cyber attack in history and this week the Dutch authorities appear to have caught the hacker involved. It was like 1999 again when DDoS attacks first got the press excited. The return of DDoS as a [...] Read more

Many of the conversations we have with our customers have two recurring themes: I need to do more with less and I need to move to a model where I am delivering a service to the business, not just managing technology. For many CIOs this means outsourcing the everyday IT to service providers but what does [...] Read more

There are a number of companies, which have truly revolutionised the go-to-market approach for consumer-facing technology. Take Apple for example who made the purchase of music in its own ecosystem legal . Or Dell who redefined the office PC market by introducing customised products. Now we hope to have joined their ranks by introducing a piece [...] Read more

With a murmur of general unhappiness about the state of rural broadband, as well as the announcement that the European Commission is cutting budgets for rollouts, Google crowning ‘tech-savvy eTowns’ in the UK seems to be a bit out of sync. The results were controversial too. Coming in at number 11 of the Internet giant’s top [...] Read more