NEWS
Six Degrees expands public sector
service offerings
K-based managed service
provider Six Degrees has
announced that public sector
organisations will be able to benefit from
a comprehensive range of networks and
telecommunications services offered via
the Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Network Services 2 framework.
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This follows the company’s recent
announcement that it will be delivering
a total of 80 cloud and security services
through the CCS G-Cloud 11 framework.
Joining these frameworks reinforces Six
Degrees’ commitment to continuing
to deliver large-scale, transformational
services to the UK public sector.
Six Degrees has a demonstrable heritage
in achieving Digital Transformation for
public sector clients through a series of
acquisitions, including prominent cloud
provider Carrenza in 2016 and cybersecurity
provider CNS Group in 2018, and more
recently under the combined streamlined
structure of Six Degrees Technology Group.
All services delivered through the Network
Services 2 framework are aligned to
the objectives of UK public sector
organisations, whether it’s achieving cost
savings while benefiting from industry-
leading managed networks, or improving
internal or citizen user experience through
secure, agile voice and productivity tools.
Six Degrees delivers large-scale, quality
IT services to prominent public sector
organisations including the Ministry
of Justice and the Crown Prosecution
Service, enabling them to achieve cost
savings whilst enhancing citizen services.
Colt to enable direct on-demand
connections to Google Cloud
C
olt Technology Services has announced that it
will provide enterprises with direct, on-demand
connections to Google Cloud globally.
Through the use of Colt’s Dedicated Cloud Access (DCA)
offering powered by the Colt IQ Network, customers
can connect from enterprise buildings or data centres to
their Google Cloud instances with customer-dedicated
bandwidth as well as low and deterministic latency. Coupled
with Colt’s On Demand offering, which rolled out further in
May, enterprises will now be able to take full control over
their network, connecting to Google Cloud in real-time via
partner interconnect.
cloud has been a significant priority for Colt over the past
few years.
“This extension of our proposition to allow organisations to
connect not only directly to Google Cloud, but also have the
connectivity delivered in real-time, ensures Colt can tangibly
drive enterprises Digital Transformations.”
Managed via a rich self-service portal, on-demand networking
allows organisations to flex bandwidth requirements up
and down in near real-time as well as bypass legacy service
delivery processes and lead times.
The Colt IQ Network includes a 100Gbps optimised, owned
network, distributed to more than 900 data centres and more
than 27,500 buildings around the world.
Colt’s Vice President Product Portfolio, Peter Coppens said:
“Facilitating organisations’ migration and utilisation of the
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