Cloud services firm Colt Technology Services is opening up enterprise access to what the company claims is the largest datacentre footprint in Europe.

The company said that its cloud services, which include platform management, IT as a service and managed storage offerings, will offer datacentres in some 20 European cities. Additionally, the company will offer support to customers in 15 different languages.

“Our enterprise cloud services are designed to deliver scalable cloud solutions as well as flexible service and commercial levels delivered via our service catalogue,” said Colt vice president of portfolio and strategy Jon Bennett.

“After consulting closely with our customers, it is clear that being able to offer infrastructure, platforms and workloads will give the CIO confidence that they can focus on delivering business objectives, rather than managing technology.”

The company hopes that its wide range of datacentre locations and extensive portfolio of services will appeal to customers looking to perform large-scale IT automation projects and cloud migration initiatives and desire multiple datacentre locations for performance and stability.

In addition to the performance benefits, cloud platform providers have pointed to the presence of local datacentres as an important privacy and compliance initiative. With many government agencies and regulated industries weary of moving data to a physical location in a foreign state, having a datacentre within the coun try’s borders has been a growing concern.

In the UK, cloud providers such as Salesforce have announced plans to bring their new datacentre facilities to London in order to provided localised services.