Gideon Wilkins

January kicked off a great start to 2014 when we were recognised by VMware as UK and Ireland Service Provider Partner of the Year, for the second consecutive year. And it seems the news keeps getting better, as last week’s VMware Partner Exchange in San Francisco saw Colt awarded Global Service Provider Partner of the Year! [...] Read more

2014 has started well for Colt: we have been recognised as Service Provider of the Year at VMware’s UK & Ireland Partner Recognition Dinner, for the second year running! This acknowledgment reflects Colt’s success in developing our vCloud service portfolio, offering customers a flexible pool of resources comprised of compute, storage and networking elements delivered from [...] Read more

Trust is essential in building high performing partnerships. Companies that have a high degree of trust in each other contribute 78% more sales than those with a lower level of trust. But how do you build trust? One of the foundation steps is to create a plan. Managing a partner relationship without a plan would be [...] Read more

Every day we are bombarded by companies and media telling us that Big Data is the next big thing. But in truth Big Data, or the large quantities of information we collect on a daily basis, is already impacting our lives by changing the way we make decisions about buying goods and services. Ever buy something [...] Read more

As Partner Management Director at Colt I’m often asked about the real, underlying value that our technology partnerships deliver. In the past 18 months Colt has significantly restructured itself to accelerate progress towards being a next generation services provider.  So how do our strategic technology partnerships support this and what exactly do we get from them [...] Read more