COLT, a leading European provider of business communications, has won a contract to provide Fidelity International Limited with a dedicated managed data centre facility. The contract, worth around Ôé¼60m over 10 years, will involve planning, developing and managing the highly secure 1,400m┬▓ facility, based at COLT's London data centre.
COLT was selected for this project because of its proven track record in supplying high quality managed data centre services, and its ability to provide a new facility for Fidelity that will be tailored to its exacting requirements.
The project involves four phases: design consultancy to scope and plan the centre; fitting out of the facility; installation of racks and servers and finally the on-going management and maintenance of the infrastructure over a 10-year lifespan, including providing a helpdesk and onsite IT support. The centre is scheduled to be live by the end of 2007.
Lakh Jemmett, COLT's UK Managing Director, said: "Managed Services is the fastest growing part of COLT's portfolio. Major organisations, such as Fidelity International, are putting their trust in the quality of COLT's infrastructure, services and people. This contract is a clear endorsement of our expertise in designing, building and managing the infrastructure which supports customers' mission-critical processes.
To meet growing demand for managed services, COLT has brought two data centres online in 2006, in Brussels and Hamburg, bringing its total European footprint to 14. All centres are integrated with COLT's 20,000km European network, enabling the company to offer high speed and high quality managed services to European businesses.