Business communications and IT managed services provider Colt, has partnered with VMware to offer vCloud Datacenter services throughout Europe.

The company said that the hybrid cloud service VMware vCloud Datacenter, enables organisations to extend and migrate their own virtualised environment to a Colt data centre, with Colt providing a VMware-certified cloud.

The partnership with VMware will be further enhanced as Colt extends its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services for the enterprise.

VMware president and CEO Paul Maritz said that the new service based on VMware vCloud Datacenter enables enterprises to not only improve efficiency internally, but also be in a position to tap into external resources in a non-disruptive way when it makes business sense to do so.