Colt Colocation Services

Secure dedicated infrastructure and capacity

When you need it. Where you need it.

Colocation with Colt gives you all the benefits of an award winning dedicated data centre as a service, without the upfront capex required to build your own. Store, protect and access critical data and equipment simply, cost-effectively at one of our secure, carrier-neutral, purpose-fault-tolerant built data centres. From a rack to a fully dedicated hall, Colt can provide you a flexible solution that suits your needs.

As a leading colocation provider, we own and operate 20 data centres in 10 major countries across Europe, covering 30,000+sqm of operational space. We’ll provide the facilities to house your IT hardware, leaving you to focus on looking after your core business requirements.

Secure and resilient facilities

Our colocation services are designed for customers who want to manage their own IT hardware  in a secure, dedicated and carrier neutral facility. Colocation at Colt offers customers a secure, rack based environment within a fully maintained data hall in one of our 20 European data centres. Each of our data halls are supplied with resilient power and cooling infrastructure, allowing customers the peace of mind that their data is backed up and available 24/7 in an operationally and commercially efficient environment. As an addition we can offer can offer customers an additional layer of security, by providing you with a caged area or a securely contained aisle, to which only you will have access. Empowering you to be even more resilient.

Unmatched operational excellence

We take service delivery extremely seriously. We are dedicated to continuously monitoring network connectivity, power supply and environmental controls, and offer competitive SLAs that cover your infrastructure. In addition, we will only ever allow your authorised personnel have round-the-clock access to your equipment, with your prior approval. In recognition of our excellence, we became the first operator in Europe to receive the management and operations stamp of approval from the Uptime Institute.

You are in safe hands, wherever you are.

With a 7-layer security model ensures that your valuable and sensitive data stays safe at all times. 24/7 CCTV, 365-day manned security and personalised ID protection provide complete peace-of-mind, while industry-leading SLAs guarantee business-critical performance. What’s more, our stringent standards are applied consistently across all our European markets. So, wherever you use our service, you can be assured your data remains secure.

Flexible, scalable solutions that align with your changing business

Collocating your infastructure with Colt keeps you lean, flexible and responsive to change. There’s no big capital outlay, no complex planning, and no complicated management. Our opex model and flexible solutions mean that whatever your data centre needs from a few racks to an entire suite, Colt has a solution to meet your needs. 

  • Flexible, scalable data centre services from a rack to a dedicated hall
  • Our data centres are carrier neutral but you have the choice of using Colts network and technology solutions that can provide our customers with a one stop shop for a range of services.
  • Enhanced service reliability through the secure, managed environment of purpose-built fault-tolerant data centres
  • Capacity available on demand in many locations
  • Multiple data centre locations mean our customers can get the same great service, quality and expertise across multiple markets. This makes commercials and vendor management much easier for customers and makes expanding into new markets easier too.
  • Turn capital expenditure into operational expenditure and minimise upfront cost
  • Strategic location of Colt Data Centres enables high-grade proximity hosting solutions to be delivered and operated outside high-risk geographic centres
  • Provision of dual resilient power circuits to your rack, enabling Tier III and Tier IV standards to be delivered to each of your installed devices
  • True, complete-path circuit diversity and redundancy to each rack (Tier III and Tier IV) from building feeds through to the rack-installed power strip
  • Conditioned power delivered to each rack, backed up by fully redundant uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and onsite generators.
  • Carrier neutral data centre network

 

  • Rack based services: For single or multiple rack solutions in the general colocation area, Colt provides lockable industry standard racks designed to accommodate multiple equipment form factors. Where equipment dictates a specific form factor, Colt will endeavour to accommodate.
  • Cage based services: For additional security our cage based solution add an additional security layer around the rack based services to provide an area with exclusive access to you and Colt. Power usage is applicable where the customer has opted to pay for metered energy consumption.
  • Dedicated data hall services: When dedicated facilities are required, we offer complete data halls at a Colt facility. These facilities are available on demand in some locations or in a short time frame in others and are built using our market leading Colt ftec architecture.
  • Remote hands service: Our optional Remote Hands service allows Colt’s on-site expertise to perform remote hands activities on your behalf when local intervention is required. The service is available on a subscription basis for a set level of hours per month, or as an ad hoc service. Remote Hands services are performed under customer instructions and may be scheduled in advance or “on demand” basis.

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