Pulsant is a digital edge infrastructure provider, specialising in cloud, colocation and connectivity services.[1]
Established in 1995 as EdNET, an ISP, the company was rebranded as Lumison in 2004.[2] Lumison was acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital in 2010[3] and Pulsant was formed in 2011, following the integration of Lumison, a managed service provider; Dedipower, a managed hosting company; and Bluesquare Data, a datacentre operator.[4][5][6]
Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquire Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners in 2021.[8] Previously the company was refinanced by Oak Hill Capital from 2014 - 2021.[9] In 2015 Pulsant acquired the consulting arm of Spinnaker Red,[10] and in 2016 acquired IT infrastructure services company Onyx.[11]
Pulsant announced in mid 2017 that it completed the acquisition of LayerV, a specialist public cloud solution integration company, with a strong focus on compliance, security and cloud automation.[12][13][14]
Pulsant owns several data centres across multiple locations throughout the UK. These include three sites in Scotland, Edinburgh, South Gyle, Bankhead Medway and Newbridge, as well as eleven in England; Manchester, Rotherham, Newcastle x 2, Maidenhead, Croydon, Fareham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes and Reading x 2.[15]
The company occupies space in facilities in New York, Dallas, Boston, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Frankfurt.[16]
Pulsant's South Gyle facility in Edinburgh hosts IXScotland, Scotland's first dedicated internet exchange.[17]
Pulsant has upgraded its premises at St Neots House on Rockingham Drive in Milton Keynes, creating a new "data hall" designed to run powerful computing jobs.They include machine learning, a branch of AI where computers learn patterns from data. Pulsant gives businesses an alternative to using London data centres, which it claimed were becoming crowded and expensive. [18]
Pulsant were Royal Warrant holders to the British Royal Household as a provider of hosted IT and datacentre services [19] from 2013 - 2022.
Pulsant is certified to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 across 10 data centres. Recently acquired Reading South and Manchester[20][21] will be accredited to the same level in Q1 2023. Pulsant also holds a level 1 PCI-DSS validation for physical security at three of its sites.
In 2013 Pulsant was awarded CSA Star certification for cloud security by the British Standards Institution (BSI Group).[22][23]
