Colt Data Centre Services
Building a Sustainable Hyperscale Future

Innovations, challenges, and insurmountable demands, the data centre industry is going through a fascinating phase. The growth of remote working, data generation, and adoption of AI and 5G technologies has helped the cause. There is an unprecedented demand for scalable, high-density computing infrastructure. Since colocation providers have a limit on data storage capacity, many companies are now looking for hyperscale data centres that can provide them with long-term scalable data storage capacity to support their rising workload. Designing, building, and delivering hyperscale data centres across Europe and APAC, Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) allows businesses to rapidly scale capacity as they need and expand their presence in the locations that matter to their customers.



One of the world’s biggest suppliers of hyperscale data centre services, Colt DCS has a platform of 14 data centres worldwide and continues to expand across Europe and APAC. The company’s customer-centric approach has enabled them to increase the cloud storage capacity of hyperscale data centres as required, without the risk of disrupting data delivery. Colt DCS’ world class data centre facilities are 100 percent carrier and IX neutral. To cater to its client’s future capacity requirements, the cloud solutions provider employs a land banking strategy wherein it secures plots of land and power from the national grid to build data centres when required so it is ready to go live with power capacity secured from the offset. This means customers need not invest time, money, and other resources to build a data storage facility for themselves.

The firm adapts quickly to the industry’s changing trends to accommodate its customers more efficiently.

Usually, Colt DCS would use a global reference design to satisfy 80 percent of the customer’s needs while onboarding multi-tenants in one data centre facility without sacrificing seamless data delivery.

Due to the rising demand for cloud services and the consequent need for a scalable cloud storage facility, Colt DCS’ experience in the industry means that it can also design, build and operate facilities for single anchor tenant use based on that one customer’s requirements.

“We have survived the ups and downs because of our hyper focus to ensure that our clients can do business easily. That’s why they sense the ease of doing business with us and keep buying the same services from us, year after year,” says Quy Nguyen, Vice President, Global Accounts and Solutions, Colt DCS.

In recent years the company has witnessed the evolving expectation of its clients regarding the security and environmental impact of hyperscale data centres. The firm ensures that the data centres are secure, both in cyberspace and physical space, as per the security policies and requirements of the customers. After devising security measures like frequent firewall updates, server patches to prevent data leaks, and reactive security systems to keep the intruders away, the in-house security team implements them and maintains constant vigilance to ensure the safety of data assets and infrastructure. Similarly, the hyperscale solutions provider also takes ownership of reducing its environmental impact globally and focuses on developing and adopting long-term sustainable goals like its Net Zero strategy, a part of its wider sustainability drive which includes reducing the organizations’ scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2030.

As an expert in providing scalable computing infrastructure, Colt DCS has aided many clients in supporting their rising workload with its hyperscale data centre solutions. For instance, the firm helped a customer in Japan develop an edge node before deploying their cloud platform. Edge nodes can aggregate the customer’s data, process it in computing storage through a dedicated network pipe, and then send it back to the customer. Usually, businesses employ multiple service providers to procure infrastructure and services to execute this process. To reduce the process’s complexity, Colt DCS provided an end-to-end solution of infrastructure and services using its hyperscale facility, mimicking the entire edge node process. This provided tremendous value to its customers, enabling them to deploy their platform, scale faster and save costs.

The success Colt DCS enjoys today results from its solid track record of 25+ years’ practice of treating customers’ requirements as critical missions. Additionally, its employees’ dedication to fulfilling their requirements by offering quality services also plays a crucial role in gaining its current reputation. From zero tolerance to outages to executing a disciplined risk assessment process, and offering bilingual services to clients in different parts of the world has customers returning to purchase its solutions.