Colt Bytes July '23 roundup

Welcome to Colt Bytes, our monthly roundup of all the latest news, videos and blogs published this month.

Featuring an exclusive interview with Forrester analyst Pascal Matzke, news from three of our valued partners and a bite-sized summary of our sustainability report for 2022, July’s Colt Bytes tells you all you need to know about what’s been happening here at Colt.

Sustainability report summary 2022

Earlier this year we published our second sustainability report, sharing our progress towards our environmental, sustainability and governance targets to ensure the planet's safety while making Colt an equitable workplace.

If you didn’t have time to read the full report, this useful short summary highlights all the key information from the main report.

Fireside chat with Forrester Research

As part of our new customer experience series, we hosted a fireside chat between guest speaker Pascal Matzke, VP and Research Director at Forrester Research and Jaya Deshmukh, our EVP of Strategy & Transformation.

Pascal leads Forrester’s global CIO research team, specialising in digital transformation and customer experience. You can also check out the Digital Infrastructure Insights series on the Colt website.

Microsoft award Colt as Solutions Partner

Colt and Microsoft have been valued partners for many years, working together to set the standard on hybrid working as well as providing customers with innovative cloud solutions.

Our most recent progress sees Microsoft awarding Colt with its Solutions Partner for Modern Work in the new AI Cloud Partner Programme.

Exceptional customer experiences with Zscaler

Cybersecurity has always been a top priority for customers, so that’s why we partnered with industry-leading security experts Zscaler.

Ash Surti, Colt’s Executive Vice President of Technology & Security, sat down with Zscaler to discuss where excellent customer experiences take form from.

Multicast Data in the Cloud with AWS

In the financial sector, secure, accurate data that can travel lightning-fast is a must.

Thanks to our partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we launched Colt Market Data in the Cloud: a multicast data service for capital markets that supports the transition to on-demand services and the automation of real-time raw data on trading applications.

Sustainable sips

Ocean Bottle is a reusable bottle company which is actively reducing plastic pollution by producing reusable bottles inspired by the world below water.

As part of our 30th celebrations, each employee at Colt received an Ocean Bottle to help reduce the amount of plastic polluting the earth’s seas; and we’ve just heard the news about the impact this initiative has made.

Extraordinary connections

Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed. Powered by amazing people and like-minded partners, Colt is driven by its purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of its customers wherever, whenever and however they want.

The powerful Colt IQ Network connects 222 cities and 32 countries with more than 1000 data centres, 51 Metropolitan Area Networks and over 31,000 buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in the sector.