Why COLT Managed Services?
COLT Managed Services enables you to accelerate the evolution of your business. It opens the door to leading network technologies and our team of experts, all without the barriers of CAPEX or ongoing investment in technology upgrades.
Through our integrated data centres and network infrastructure, we offer a broad range of services that align your IT with the needs of your business. Plus we take responsibility for the availability, performance and reliability of your IT processes and computing capability 24 hours a day. This leaves you free to focus on what you do best – running your business.
What are the benefits?
Moving to COLT Managed Services:
- Reduces costs – including service call fees, hardware, operations and network transport
- Provides access to the latest technology, with limited risk
- Allows you to focus on your core business competencies
- Aligns your IT with your business needs
- Makes your IT and telecoms budget more stable and predictable
- Ensures immediate adoption of new technology-enabled business processes
- Increases levels of support and network availability, without the requirement for additional staff
- Makes it easier to adapt to changing business conditions
- Provides access to an enhanced technical skills base
- Improves your ability to meet compliance and audit requirements
- Monitors and manages your IT services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
What do we offer?
Our managed services portfolio is divided into five main categories.
1. Infrastructure Management Services (IMS)
The supply and management of IT infrastructure including servers, storage and security – fully managed or as part of a colocation project. Typical IMS components include Windows, Unix and Linux servers, network switches, load balancers, managed hosted firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
2. Network & Facility Services
A secure, high performance, high availability environment for your infrastructure, data and applications. This includes space, power, racks, cooling etc, and the network element that connects servers with other equipment.
3. Application Hosting Services (AHS)
The provisioning, configuration and administration of applications including web, messaging and middleware. Common applications that COLT operates are managed web servers, databases and messaging.
4. Managed IT Services
Purpose built service bundles ranging from connectivity and internet solutions to email, applications, data recovery and service management. This enables cost effective, rapid deployment. Managed IT Services comprises a number of different services which are offered by COLT at your premises or as centrally hosted platforms.
5. Professional Services
Our Professional Services specialists are made up of telecommunications and IT experts who complement your in-house resources and skills. They provide expertise including consultancy, technical design, project management and service management.
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