-- The Managed Grid (PaaS) will provide a flexible but dedicated
infrastructure for customers to power applications running in high
performance computing environments.
-- Ideal for both transactional and high performance computing
applications, enterprise IT organizations will be able to manage a
wider selection of business applications -- and with greater
efficiency -- with In-life Managed Applications (PaaS).
In addition, customers will be able to set business metrics against
their applications and, for those implementing dynamic infrastructure
resourcing, the ability to scale the application to meet those metrics.
-- Using a COLT private network connection, Grid Extension (IaaS) will
securely expand existing infrastructures by allowing a large number of
resources to be attached.
For organizations operating in markets where high performance computing
environments are common place, such as investment banking, insurance
and oil and gas industries, this will enable greater agility and
capacity management, while also facilitating a move to a more
efficiency-based operating cost model.
To optimize service performance in real-time, businesses will be able to
leverage built-in support for Service Level Agreement (SLA) management,
enforcement, tiered access and compliance.
Availability and More Information
These new COLT services will be rolled out in a staged approach during
2010, with introductory services available to beta customers prior to
general availability during the second quarter of 2010. Additional upgrades
will also be introduced throughout 2010.
For more information about COLT services, please visit
www.colt.net/managedservices. For more information about TIBCO DataSynapse
solutions, please visit www.tibco.com or www.datasynapse.com.
Supporting Quotes
"Our new offerings provide customers with the assurance and security needed
for enterprise-class grid services, combined with the benefits of cloud
computing," said Maggy McClelland, Managing Director of COLT Managed
Services. "This capability will enable CIOs to deploy cloud services,
whether private, hybrid or public, on a strategic rather than tactical
basis."
"We believe these capabilities will provide COLT with a differentiated,
first-mover advantage in the emerging cloud services industry," said Jamie
Bernardin, Vice President, DataSynapse Product Group, TIBCO Software Inc.
"When launched, COLT will have the first platform as a service offering in
the European enterprise IT market with these capabilities."
About TIBCO
TIBCO's technology digitized Wall Street in the '80s with its event-driven
"Information Bus" software, which helped make real-time business a
strategic differentiator in the '90s. Today, TIBCO's infrastructure
software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting
applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining
activities through business process management, and giving people the
information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter
decisions, what we call The Power of Now. TIBCO serves more than 3,000
customers around the world with offices in more than 20 countries and an
ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at www.tibco.com.
TIBCO, TIBCO Software, DataSynapse and The Power of Now are trademarks or
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About COLT
COLT is a leading European provider of business communications. COLT
specializes in providing data, voice and managed services to major
businesses, SMEs and wholesale customers. COLT operates a 13-country,
25,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 34 major
European cities with direct fiber connections into 16,000 buildings and 19
COLT data centres.
COLT Telecom Group S.A. is listed on the London Stock Exchange (COLT).
Information about COLT and its services can be found at www.colt.net.
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