Delivering business value

 

Your business and IT needs to adapt to changing market conditions. You may need your IT to be managed for you, you may want your solution to be on premise or all outsourced. Whatever your needs, we can combine the right mix of IT services to create the right solution for you. And most importantly, we ensure performance and security at both layer - network, infrastructure, platform, workloads - and full solution level.

 

 

With Colt, you will be able to focus on your core business.

With Colt, your IT will:

  • benefit from end-to-end performance and availability SLAs at component and solution level so that you can run your operations seamlessly
  • be built from the right components, delivered in real-time from 1 place so that you can eliminate complexity around sourcing and managing services
  • benefit from security add-ons at each layer of service so that your network, infrastructure, platform and workload services are always available
  • run on an award winning pan-European network giving you the best connectivity, bandwidth, traffic to and from your network
  • be delivered from one of our 20 European data centres so that you know the location of your data and that it is protected in line with EU regulations.

 

Your company may have to control personal data. From time to time, your employees will probably add, change and delete some data. You are responsible for what data is kept and how it is used. As such, your company almost certainly assumes the role of ‘data controller’. This personal data is also processed by various forms of technology. After being saved, data may be transported from a laptop to your server via your company network.

It’s important that data is protected while it’s being created, transported and stored. This ‘data processor’ role could be undertaken by your company, Colt or both depending on your needs. Colt can keep your data safe. All our IT services are delivered from one of our 20 local EU data centre facilities, and we can provide a 256 bit AES encryption on data transfer. This means guaranteed compliance with EU data protection and security regulations.

We can protect your data even if you are running in part of full a US operation:

  • US-EU Safe Harbor agreement: Colt, as a European company not subject to the jurisdiction of the US and with its data centres in Europe, is outside the remit of the Safe Harbor scheme. Colt abides by EU and Member States’ legislation on Data Protection.
  • USA Patriot Act 2001: The risk of requests by US authorities for data held by European businesses, such as Colt, with certain linkages to the US, is realistic. Such requests could be made under the Patriot Act. However, under EU law, Colt would have to answer negatively to such requests.

     

 

Market Analysts recognise Colt as a leader:

  • Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for European Hosting
  • Experton German IaaS Providers 2013/14
  • IDC European IaaS Market 2013
  • Forrester 2014 disruptive leader in cloud services

Strategic Partners recognise Colt as a leader:

  • VMware Global Partner of the Year 2014
  • Service Provider - Premier Level (Highest level for Service Providers)
  • Cisco Master Managed Services Partner (Highest Qualification)
  • Cisco Powered Cloud Services Status
  • Gold member of the EMC Velocity Service Provider Program

 

Our customers trust us with their IT:

Finance

Dutch merchant bank Kempen & Co uses Colt services to improve IT efficiency and ensure a solid business continuity plan. Our services allow Kempen & Co to focus on its core business: providing the best capital management, securities broking, corporate finance and investment services.(Also available in Dutch)

The UK-based independent fund promotion firm, Source, uses Colt services to support their rapid expansion to over $500 billion worth of transactions. Source has grown aggressively to manage $15 billion of assets, becoming the fifth largest provider of its kind, with the core of its business in the European equity markets. In a dynamic trading environment, flexible and resilient data provision is essential to manage a rapidly expanding volume of transactions.(Also available in Dutch)

Insurance

AOK,a health insurer in Germany uses Colt services to supported the MPLS network with provisioning, monitoring and operational responsibility for their web-based communication platform.

Neversa eG, an insurance service provider in Germany uses Colt services to optimise their costs while gaining more flexibility with on-demand services.

IT and Telco industry

Agilisys uses Colt services to cut costs, improve flexibility and security for the local government. The company removed the complexity of managing desktop infrastructure and rolled out a future-proof infrastructure as a service platform. It has saved £38 million while delivering better IT service levels, contributing to the council’s ability to reduce council tax for residents by at least 3% for four years in a row.

ASM Web Services uses Colt services to offer end-to-end solutions for SMEs – comprising service, applications, infrastructure and management.

ASMWS helped boost the efficiency of Codorníu’s IT team despite the challenges of launching an online sales channel.

S-4 uses Colt services to define a pay-per-use model for cloud-based applications that can be accessed using site-to-site VPNs or secure SSL protocols.  Their users can access the cloud from anywhere, which enables S-4 to address a much broader range of potential customers.

Steria, an international IT outsourcing company uses Colt services for designing, implementing and managing bespoke end-to-end IT projects for their customers.

Manufacturing

Gallina Blanca Star uses Colt services to adapt to the changing needs of the business. Colts supports their infrastructure, business continuity and disaster recovery needs.

Leading companies in fields as diverse as oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs rely on Yokogawa's industrial automation applications and distributed control systems to monitor and control production operations and safety processes. Since its partnership with Colt began, Yokogawa has been able to work much more proactively with its customers. (Also available in Dutch)

Retail

Nectar Italia uses Colt's services to facilitate business growth with robust, flexible IT infrastructure and networking services. Their IT systems can now handle a high number of transactions from a growing base of retailers, with nearly 6,000 point of sale systems.

Leroy Merlin uses Colt's services to enable business transformation. Together Colt’s infrastructure and networking services have enabled Leroy Merlin to devote their time to customer service and business evolution across their 47 Italian stores.

Real Estate

PRYCONSA, a property development company, uses Colt services to accelerate and optimise SAP availability. PRYCONSA’s IT team to concentrate on defining new business-related projects.

Online Business

TF1, one of Europe’s leading commercial broadcasters, with 45% advertising market share, and 35% audience share, talks about their 12 year relationship with Colt Technology Services and their use of Colt HD Broadcasting solutions to improve quality and meet cost efficiencies within the business (video).

Public sector

VERA  serves around 85% of the local government organisations in Belgium's Flemish Brabant province. Vera uses Colt services to optimise costs by paying only for the IT resources they need.

Did you know?

Colt goes beyond offering just IT services. We also offer network, data centre and voice services to create an end-to-end solution for your business. We are trusted providers in these areas as well:

Network

EUROVISION is the network arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and carries more than 30,000 hours of live sports, and over 88,000 hours of programming every year.  Developing their partnership with Colt, EUROVISION asked Colt to ensure a smooth transition over to the Colt network without any service interruption.  Colt was also tasked with future proofing the network to enable broadcast developments such as ultra-high definition TV, second-screen services and a likely growth in remote production. Moving to Colt's broadcast-quality Ethernet sees a saving of 20% annually and simplified network management. (Also available in Dutch)

Data centre services

Consorci AOC expands e-government in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The Catalan administrations provide a wide range of online services enabling activities such as exploring and analysing publicly available data, finding information, setting up associations, paying traffic fines and reporting petty thefts. Consolidating infrastructure with Colt cuts Consorci AOC's colocation costs by over 30% while simplifying IT management and increasing productivity.

Voice services

In the competitive air transport market, airlines are constantly looking to optimise their internal costs. Swiss International Airlines’s (SWISS) partnership with Colt is proving its worth in this respect. Since making the bold move to the innovative and flexible Colt VoIP solution in 2007, call costs have reduced by around 20%, while service quality has gone up.  

 

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