Colt's Blog

Of the many pleasures in life, I take my food and cooking very seriously. Simple recipes made with high quality ingredients are the basis for my Italian cuisine. The importance of quality ingredients also applies to how the market for network services is evolving in Europe, Something that the industry got together to celebrate over dinner [...] Read more

Having just returned from Capacity Europe 2013, it’s difficult to see the event as anything less than a great success. One of the high points for Colt was our award for Best Pan-European Wholesale Carrier 2013. This award was not only a great honour but also significant recognition by our industry of the emphasis we put [...] Read more

A recurrent theme at last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITXpo event in Barcelona was an impending IT leadership crisis and whether the CIO would or could step up to meet this challenge. Colt’s guest speaker at the event, Marie-Hélène Fagard (of CIONet) provided some telling insights and advice to an audience of CIOs based on her own corporate [...] Read more

This year’s Gartner Symposium keynote kicked off with a startling prediction: by 2020 every enterprise will be digital. The internet of ‘everything’ will see 30 billion things connected by 2020, meaning that digital is becoming embedded in everything we do, bringing the virtual and physical worlds together. Combined with big data, the internet of things will [...] Read more

The recent Gartner blog “Building (or buying) a better mousetrap” by research director Gregor Petri likened the development of the cloud to some of the technology battles of the past. He said “the history of IT is full of examples of technologies that were not necessarily superior, but that turned out to become winners”, and cited [...] Read more