Colt Data Centre Services

As we recognise Mentoring Day (27th October) let’s take a moment to appreciate the transformative power of #mentoring and the strides we’ve made with our MentorU programme. Mentoring is a powerful tool that boosts confidence, enhances skills, and builds resilience in both personal and professional pursuits. Since its launch just over a year ago, MentorU has connected 60% of our colleagues as mentors and mentees. These connections have fostered valuable relationships that promote growth, support and knowledge-sharing across our organisation. It has also improved cross-functional collaboration across our regions and helped our new joiners integrate more seamlessly into the DCS culture. We are thrilled to hear how much support it has provided to our colleagues. #mentoringday #mentor #mentee #mentorprogramme #mentorU

At Colt DCS, we are committed to engaging in community projects in the areas where our data centres are located. To support this, we offer our employees 2 days of CSR leave per year. Earlier this month, colleagues from our Product and Marketing Team visited the Hillingdon Foodbank, near our London 4 development site in Hayes, to lend a hand.   The team spent the day sorting and dating food donations, preparing food parcels, and helping with deliveries.   The Foodbank provides short-term and emergency food, as well as financial and benefits advice to families in the borough of Hillingdon who are experiencing difficult times.   The whole Team enjoyed helping for the day and are excited to plan their next CSR activity.   Hear more from Peter at the Hillingdon Foodbank and Matthew Cantwell, Director of Product and Marketing at Colt DCS, about the initiative. #csr #corporatesocialresponsibility #hillingdonfoodbank #communityengagement #communityinitiative #volunteering #hayesdatacentre #hillingdondatacentre

We are delighted to announce our third set of Quarterly TRUST Guru Award winners for 2024. Our recognition programme allows all our employees to celebrate colleagues' achievements across the business, from sending e-cards to sharing small financial awards via our recognition platform, Inspire. With so many ecards and Inspire awards handed out over the quarter, our Senior Leadership Team had to agree on a final list of 11 individuals who each received a TRUST Guru Award to recognise their hard work and dedication. Congratulations to David Woods Yasuko Kurashima Vineet Gautam Graden O'Sullivan Makoto Nishimura Nikhil Parate Mirabela L. Somu Selvaraj Humphrey Geldof Hedi OLLIVIER and Rukesh Gosain our Q3 2024 TRUST Guru Award winners! #EmployeeAwards #EmployeeRecognition #EmployeeValues #QuarterlyAwards  #GreatPlaceToWork #JoinColtDCS

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating influential Black individuals and their profound impact on society and the world. Did you know that Dr Marian Rogers Croak, an African American woman, invented Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology? Dr Marian Rogers Croak is a true pioneer in technology and an inspiration to many. As a groundbreaking Black woman in the tech industry, her work in VoIP has transformed how we communicate. Her innovation has been crucial in developing modern communication tools like Skype and Zoom, enabling effective audio and video communication over the Internet. This advancement has made conferencing and remote working more accessible and efficient, revolutionising local and global communications. In recognition of her achievements, which include over 200 patents, she was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame in 2013 and became one of the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022. Dr Marian Rogers Croak’s contributions have paved the way for future generations of women and minorities in tech, highlighting that diversity and inclusion are key drivers of innovation 🌐✨ #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackWomen #WomeninTechnology #WomeninSTEM #VOIP #CommunicationTechnology #Innovation

Colt Data Centre Services is pleased to announce the promotion of Takeshi Muto to the Head of Delivery for Colt DCS in Japan. In his new role, Muto-san will oversee the development, design, and build of Colt DCS’ data centres in Japan, ensuring Colt DCS continues to meet and exceed customer expectations.   Muto-san brings with him a wealth of experience in development, project management, and managing relationships with Shareholders, General Contractors and key stakeholders.   His proven track record in successfully delivering large-scale projects makes Muto-san distinctively qualified to lead delivery initiatives in this market of critical importance to Colt DCS.   As Head of Delivery, Muto-san will focus on the execution of our key projects in Osaka Keihanna, Inzai and North Tokyo, whilst driving excellence and customer satisfaction.

Delivered as part of our Black History Month celebrations, we hosted an energetic, African Drumming Workshop at our Head Office in London. It was an opportunity for us to come together, celebrate, and learn more about the history behind African drumming. We were joined by Aboubacar from The London African Drumming Company. Aboubacar took us on a journey educating us on the origin of African drumming. We had the opportunity to play the drums, which were native to Western Africa, and learn some phrases in Mossi, a language native to Burkina Faso.   Those who took part, were able to learn different drumming patterns and rhythms. It was a vibrant lunchtime, which left everyone feeling recharged and ready to tackle the afternoon. Here's a video of our Colt DCS drummers in action.   #BlackHistoryMonth #AfricanCulture #AfricanDrumming #AfricanDrums #Drumming #Culture #Education

At DCS, we’re committed to providing market-competitive benefits that support the overall wellbeing of our colleagues. To strengthen our employee wellbeing offering, we’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with MYNDUP, which fits perfectly into our benefit philosophy and strengthens our global offering.   MYNDUP is a wellbeing and coaching service that offers virtual 1:1 sessions with qualified practitioners and an online library of helpful resources, from career coaching to meditation.   This service will help our colleagues on their journeys of self-development, by providing access to coaching and tools to help them improve within the areas that matter to them.   The spectrum of support includes: 💚 Therapy 💚 Counselling 💚 Life Coaching 💚 Career Coaching 💚 Mindfulness 💚 Meditation   By curating our benefits around financial, physical, and mental wellbeing, we aim to create a work environment where employees feel valued, supported, and #empowered to achieve and deliver their best, both professionally and personally.   #wellbeingmatters #wellbeingsupport #mentalhealth #physicalhealth #careergrowth #employeebenefit #myndup

In the face of rising energy demands from #datacentre customers, maintaining a low Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) rating by data centre providers is crucial for cost savings and environmental sustainability.   Effective cooling and heat management become essential as high-performance computing and IT workloads increase. Building DCs in cold climates can leverage free cooling methods, significantly reducing energy consumption. However, not all organisations can benefit from this due to geographical constraints. Advanced cooling techniques, such as liquid cooling, offer promising alternatives.   Alistair Barnes Head of Mechanical Engineering at Colt DCS, talks to Data Centre Solutions about 'The significance of Liquid Cooling for Data Centre Sustainability'. Partnering with knowledgeable data centre providers who can review and manage operations in real-time, will ensure efficiency and help meet corporate sustainability goals.   To learn more about Liquid Cooling and its benefits, read the article https://lnkd.in/eFdaX7BC #datacentres #datacentredesign #liquidcooling #sustainabledatacentres #sustainability

We had the pleasure of hosting 80 students from Nara National College of Technology in Japan, at our Osaka Keihanna Data Centre, as part of their Autumn External Training. Our #datacentre team Yo Aoyama Tomoya Ikeda, Shuhei Iwata, Kaori Yano and Talent Acquisition Specialist Isamu Morita, led insightful briefing sessions and an engaging data centre tour. The students were divided into two groups, alternating between sessions at the Keihanna Plaza Hotel and the data centre tour. The students were intrigued to learn that their knowledge of electricity, information technology, and mechanical engineering is extremely valued in data centre operations, which made them very enthusiastic about our data centre tour. The Q&A session was particularly dynamic, with the students keen to understand how their skills could be applied in data centres. Throughout the day, the professionalism and curiosity they displayed were very impressive. It was encouraging to see feedback from our survey, which showed that many of the students were interested in Colt DCS's graduate programme. A special shoutout to Yo Aoyama and Ikeda, both alumni of Nara National College of Technology, who played a vital role in making this event a success and kudos to the Keihanna data centre team for their teamwork in organising this fantastic event! #datacenters #education #futuretalent #teamwork #ColtDCS

We were thrilled with the positive feedback received from Chamber members and attendees, during the initial public consultation of our Hayes Digital Park masterplan, at the Hillingdon Chamber of Commerce Patron’s Lunch 2024. It was especially heartening to hear the enthusiastic responses to our sustainability initiatives and the community benefits of the apprenticeship scheme we are developing with Uxbridge College. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with all our partners in the London Borough of Hillingdon. https://lnkd.in/ervqcagw Matthew Grant MRICS Angus Murray Andy Sharma Kim McGearty Brunel University of London #datacentre #expansion #london #hayes #sustainabledevelopment #communitydevelopment #hayesdigitalpark