IT services

Infrastructure services give you access to on-demand compute, storage, data centre services and facilities. Infrastructure services are integrated seamlessly with our pan-European network, and backed by enterprise class SLAs.

This translates into the highest level of scalability and performance for your IT solutions in either a cloud-based or managed scenario. You will also benefit from flexible pricing models ranging from monthly pay-as-you-go to specific term commitment. We can help you address challenges around:

• Capacity: eliminate the constant threat of reaching the end-of life stage for servers and storage solutions as your business grows or requirements change
• Agility: take advantage of seasonal demands as they happen and of potential application developments without high commitments
• Security: expand with confidence into new geographies without having to worry about new IT regulations, compliance audits, data protection and outside threats
• Responsiveness: address internal, functional demands for deploying and using new technology including applications and devices.

Our infrastructure services: 

	Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): reduce costs and be more agile by leveraging our secure infrastructure. We have one of the largest cloud footprints in Europe, delivering performance and security for dedicated and shared infrastructure. All our services are delivered from local European data centres. You will always know where your data is and who looks after it. Our add-on backup and recovery solutions will keep your data and applications always available. Learn more about:
	Storage: remove the expense of technology refreshes and inflexible capacity increases. You can optimise your IT costs by opting for storage on a cloud-based shared platform or by mixing shared and dedicated options, depending on the type of files and applications your business uses. You can scale capacity in line with your growth or seasonal requirements, while benefiting from high performance and availability of data. Learn more about:
	IT networking: connect your business sites to the Internet easily, efficiently and securely with guaranteed IP bandwidth. We can provide you with an end-to-end managed network solution. You will benefit from great performance at lower costs and increased availability guarantees. Learn more about:
	Colocation: manage your own IT hardware in a secure, carrier neutral European data centre. We own and operate 20 data centres in 10 major countries across Europe. You can store, protect and access critical data and equipment simply and cost-effectively at one of our secure, carrier-neutral, purpose-fault-tolerant built data centres. From a rack to a fully dedicated hall without the initial investment and operational overhead required to build your own. Learn more about:

Your IT platform is a key component of your every-day business operation. It supports your simple and complex workloads as well as your web and mission critical applications. Your IT platform should provide you with an easy way to control and manage data and applications, backup, security and access components.

We have invested heavily in developing our cloud and managed service platforms. They can provide an excellent customer experience and a more flexible infrastructure for delivering both Colt-managed and customer-managed hosting and services. You will benefit from improved price and service quality, while removing complexity around working with unsteady platforms. We can help you address challenges around:

• Skills: eliminate the need for having a large number of specialists to implement processes and technology
• Agility: keep pace with new technology and new applications
• Security: ensure your IT components are always up-to-date and protected from any internal or external threats
• Responsiveness: address changing business needs for services and consumption models.

Our platform services:

	Managed platforms: remove the complexity around running, managing and maintaining your IT environment. Managed web servers and middleware help power your Windows or Linux based applications in a more cost-effective way. You will gain more scalability and performance. Managed database services help process your data at high speed, while the managed operating system provides a single, simple way to manage operating systems across devices. Learn more about:
	Data management services: retain, protect and retrieve your data and applications in a cost effective way. Your business relies on its data and applications for conducting business.Critical, confidential business data can be included in emails, files, data bases as well as internal facing web sites. We can help you preserve all critical data that resides in your email and retrieve it whenever necessary as well as ensure you have a solid business continuity plan in place. Learn more about:
	Managed security: protect your networks, systems, data and emails from a multitude of malicious threats. We can provide you with several layers of security in order to ensure you can run your day-to-day and critical operations seamlessly. You will be able to control and access advanced reporting on the activities on your network. Our managed firewall and Intrusion Prevention System will help increase your overall network and applications security. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)protection will keep your servers available in the case of a targeted attack on your connectivity. Our email security and email archiving services will help protect against spam and malware while ensuring preservation of important information and attachments. Secure authentication services ensure your passwords are safe from phishing, key logging or shoulder surfing attempts. Endpoint protection services will keep your servers, desktops and laptops safe from viruses and malicious threats. It can play an important part of your BYOD strategy. Learn more about:
	Access management services: increase the security of your network while improving user productivity. When your business grows, so does the number of users and potentially applications used for critical operations. You need a solution that can synchronise access, security and account information across users, networks and platforms. We can help you deliver such a solution that integrates with Active Directory.Learn more about

Workload services are designed with the end user in mind. Teams need flexible, reliable services for conducting day-to-day business in the most productive way. Your team, customers and suppliers all require responsiveness to communication and collaboration initiatives.

You need to be able to work seamlessly when you are in the office, off-site or on the move. You also need to make sure you do not breach data, application or network security. We provide you with workload solutions that take away the burden of managing an increasing number of requirements. You can focus on growing your business and not on delivering key workloads into the business. 

We help you address challenges around: 

• Flexibility: receive services on demand from any device or location
• Agility: consume services on demand and scale resources as and when needed
• Security: centralise, standardise and control access policies from a single interface
• Complexity: order and start using a comprehensive set of services from one place.

What we offer: 

 

Workspace as a service: secure, anytime, anywhere access to business data, applications and network from any device. Physical desktops require significant investment for maintenance, provide very limited resource upgrade options and are subject to physical and cyber threats. Running applications that require a higher level of resources can prove to be problematic, and if you have a bring-your-own-device policy in place you need to ensure secure access. We can help you address all these challenges. Learn more about:

Communication and collaboration services: expand your business reach without the associated high investment. You can opt for the Microsoft Hosted Exchange, Lync and SharePoint suite for real-time communication, presence information, file sharing and collaboration. If your business needs a collaboration solution that fits all the needs of mobile, remote and 3rd party collaboration, then you can opt for Soonr Workplace. Learn more about: