Colt's partnership with VMware
Transform your network and drive business agility
Why we partner with VMware
Enterprise customers can benefit from an improved user experience, anywhere, with the WAN solution that delivers hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS functionality on a high bandwidth, low latency network across a global footprint. This allows organisations worldwide to harness the power of the cloud and optimise their networks.
Overcoming today's network challenges
Enterprises today face an ever growing mountain of challenges to overcome – everything from migration from legacy network solutions (e.g. MPLS) and migration of applications into the cloud, to securing their network perimeter against a barrage of attacks and threats, and enabling the modern hybrid workforce. As a result, organisations need maximum agility, flexibility and scalability in the wide area network to overcome these challenges and take advantage of business opportunities. They need enhanced connectivity, optimised network availability and performance as well as secure, end-to-end access to the applications that drive productivity and growth across the organisation.
Colt and VMware partner to deliver to customers a future-proof, secure and agile SD WAN solution, to drive application modernisation and reduce network complexity.
Through our partnership with VMware, our customers benefit from a leading, innovative platform offering agile, optimised WAN overlaying a managed solution with a network services provider of choice for global enterprises.
Addressing digital transformation and cloud optimisation challenges
Colt SD WAN with VMware combines an industry-leading WAN edge service platform with high performance connectivity across a global footprint and best-in-class customer service. Through this partnership we deliver a simple, scalable, and secure WAN solution to drive digital transformation and cloud optimisation for enterprises globally.
“Employees are working from everywhere and IT leaders are investing in cloud-first technologies, like SD WAN, to deliver networking and security services seamlessly. VMware and Colt are trusted technology partners to enterprises worldwide and we look forward to working with Colt to bring our industry-leading SD WAN technology to their customers”
CRAIG CONNORS
VP & GENERAL MANAGER, VMWARE SASE
Colt SD WAN with VMware
Colt SD WAN with VMware is overlayed by VMware SD-WAN, a WAN edge service platform that combines the economics and flexibility of a self-healing virtual WAN with the deployment speed, scalability and automation of cloud-delivered services.
Through Colt’s offering with VMware, enterprises of any size and industry across the globe can support new application growth, achieve IT and network agility, simplify WAN operations, deliver optimised access to cloud and SaaS applications.
About us
Our combined expertise in building agile, hyperconnected and high-performance hybrid architectures provides enterprises with secure solutions that are easy to manage, flexible and scale with you to meet the growing needs of your business.
VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit www.vmware.com/company.
Colt strives to transform the way the world works through the power of connectivity, taking what’s always been in its DNA to enable customers’ success. The Colt IQ Network connects more than 900+ data centres and over 29,000 on net buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Colt understands today’s shifting connectivity requirements and provides agile, on-demand and secure high bandwidth networking and voice solutions to ensure enterprises can thrive.
