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RSS ColtTurquoise trading platform begins to settle
News Colt Telecom said it has connected 10 large banks and market data customers to the platform. Investment-bank-owned share trading platform Turquoise, which went live last week, is expected to complete the first clearing... [19 Aug 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Telecommunications company Colt lifted the lid on how a data centre is built this month. Four members of the silicon.com editorial team took the challenge with Colt Telecom to raise money for the... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: silicon.com hanging by a rope
Photo The silicon.com editorial team was invited down to Colt's office near London's Liverpool Street station to abseil down eight storeys to raise money for children's charity, Childhood First. Photo credit:... [17 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo A further six data halls will be built as Colt wins new contracts. At a secret location north of London, telecommunications company Colt lifted the lid on what it takes to build these powerhouses of... [11 Jun 2008]
Ofcom consults on next generation access
News BT's 21CN is the best-known and largest example but Colt's NGN is due to go live next year; Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk NGN is a year old; and Cable & Wireless, Thus and BSkyB's Easynet are also joining in. [27 Sep 2007]
Breaking out of walled gardens: The promise of ethernet interconnection
White Paper COLT has always been a pioneer in the delivery of Ethernet services. We quickly developed it into our standard Ethernet service, COLT LANL ink, and followed that with Ethernet over DSL , hub-and-spoke... [24 Aug 2007]
Mac versus PCs - the CIO verdict
News Robert Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecom Half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the Vista factor is likely to lead to an increase in Macs on the desktop in the corporate computing environment. [12 Jul 2007]
Banks gang up for MiFID reporting
News A consortium of nine investment banks has awarded BT and Colt contracts to co-host a data repository enabling them to meet trade data reporting regulations ahead of time. Dubbed Boat, the consortium is made up of ABN... [04 Apr 2007]
Businesses failing to enforce network abuse policies
News Robert Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecom Businesses are failing to properly enforce network usage and abuse policies by leaving it to the IT department to manage. Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury panel of IT... [30 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: IT budgets on the rise in 2007
News Rob Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecoms Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury IT user panel this week said they expect their IT budgets to increase in 2007. That's a more optimistic picture than this time last year... [06 Dec 2006]
CIO Jury: Data overload drowning businesses
News Rob Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecom The amount of data stored and information shared electronically by many businesses continues to grow almost exponentially, from email archives going back years to highly sensitive customer,... [23 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: The global IT department
News Rob Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecom Just last week Norwich Union announced it will be outsourcing more IT jobs to India and the company's CIO Alex Robinson told silicon.com: "I expect IT in a big business like ours to be a... [18 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: Corporate blogs more than a fad
News Rob Wharton, CIO at Colt Telecoms, said: "Blogs are popular because they tend to represent personal opinions and personality rather than corporate messages. Rob Wharton, CIO, Colt Telecoms Corporate... [08 Sep 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study COLT - short for City of London Telecommunication, back in the day - walked away with the contract, up against major, though unnamed competitors. Aspen uses Verizon - the old MCI international network - on the other side... [11 Apr 2006]
Colt wins £1.6m network deal with 3i
News European venture capitalist 3i has signed a £1.6m three-year deal with Colt Telecom as part of a plan to shift its data networks to a single supplier. Under the deal, telco Colt will manage an IP virtual... [10 Jan 2006]
