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Welcome to Colt’s industry analyst portal. We’ve created this portal to ensure you have constant access to the most relevant and useful information about Colt. You’ll continue to receive our regular analyst briefings and we will send you Colt company news and updates as we’ve done in the past. But now you will be able to access the same information and resources from one reliable online source as well.

Read our recent news including our acquisition of ThinkGrid, our network extension to Iceland, our UCC service to Shurgard, and the recent success of Colt, in partnership with SIA, winning the tender for the license of the design, creation and management of the new network infrastructure to connect central depositories (CSDs), Eurosystem central banks and the leading European bank groups to TARGET2-Securities (T2S). The license was awarded by European Central Bank. Read also about our new channel strategy to extend cloud services into Europe through the appointment of Magirus as our first cloud services distributor, the Q3 Interim Management Statement, the expansion of Colt’s enterprise cloud services from the UK into mainland Europe and follow the shipment of Colt’s modular data centre for Verne Global as it becomes the first dual-sourced renewable energy data centre facility in Iceland. 

Please give us your feedback on how you would like to see this portal develop, I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Helen Toft, External Communications Director

News


Customers

VERA

  • IT consultancy and service provider VERA supports local government organisations in Belgium's Flemish Brabant province. The Belgian government uses cloud and outsourced computing models itself and is actively encouraging local government organisations to adopt them too. Because the agreement between Colt and VERA was based on a European government tender, it can be used as a blueprint for any local government organisation in the country that wants to migrate to Colt's cloud-based service. Read how Colt’s Cloud Infrastructure Service gives VERA and its customers a platform for the future.

Tri-Systems

Link to Colt’s case studies page

Social Media

We broadcast our company news and opinions through @Colt_Technology. Simultaneously, our Principal Cloud Analyst Steve Hughes feeds our Enterprise cloud specific channel, @Coltandthecloud. Read our live interactions on Twitter and engage with us! Here’s a couple of recent tweets we’ve liked from Industry analysts:

  • From: @cmendler,Camille Mendler Informa analyst, telecom, cloud, verticals, managed services, general angst:
    @Colt_Technology It was a bad hair day for me, but a great awards day for Colt! Congratulations!
  • From: @jeibisch_idc,  James Eibisch, IDC IDC analyst covering European carrier Ethernet, IP VPN, colocation, datacentre/datacenter, cloud computing, Web hosting markets:
    http://bit.ly/o9M5Ei - Congrats to Colt, Verizon, GTS, Broadnet on their MEF EMEA Ethernet award wins
  • From: @StefanRied, Stefan Ried Forrester Analyst for Cloud, SaaS and Middleware/ERP platforms:
    vCloud partner Softbank, Colt, Singtel and Bluelock formed the global connect alliance. Reminds me of Lufthansa Star-Alliance #vmworld

Link to Colt’s Twitter channel.

Watch Colt’s latest videos on our Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/ColtTechnology which recently include:

  • The interview of Christophe Olivier from our Media customer in France, Canal+.
  • The interview of Thordur Hilmarsson, discussing why enterprises are investing in Iceland.

Blog

Colt’s first guest blogger is Lisa Rhodes, highlights how the idea emerged of tapping into Iceland’s 100%, dual sourced, renewable power grid and build a high-capacity data centre campus that could service the Western European and Eastern North American markets. Read Verne Global – The Big Idea.

Colt’s Steve Hughes discusses the concept of a cloud broker pushed by both Forrester and Gartner, in light of the NIST definitions. Read Is there a role for cloud brokers?

Link to Colt’s Blog
 

Presentations

Ask us for our recent presentations, which include:

  • Colt’s CEO Rakesh Bhasin latest presentation at Carriers World end September 2011, highlighting to the industry his vision of the Carrier of the Future and what are the key transformation steps Carriers need to consider
  • Colt’s Simon Walsh recent presentation at the at the September 2011 CIO Europe Summit about Making Clouds work across Europe, quoting Forrester’s James Staten.
  • Colt’s 2012 Industry Analyst Event full presentations held in London in May as well as our customer’s presentations.
  • Read our most up to date Colt corporate facts sheet and visit our Wikipedia page.

Industry Analysts Contacts

For Colt Group General Industry Analyst enquiries please contact:

Helen Toft (Colt) :
+447855301078
Email: [email protected]

François d’Essertaux (Colt):
+44 (0)7538095485
Email: [email protected]

Duncan Chapple (Loudhouse):
0845 5057770
+44(0)7815 441 954
Email : [email protected]

Agi Donnithorne (Loudhouse):
0845 5057770
+44(0)7595 003328
Email : [email protected]

If you are not an Industry Analyst, please call +44 (0) 20 7390 3900 or chat online to speak to a Colt support representative. Or, if you are from the Media view our Press Office Contacts here.

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