Pulsant

Pulsant is a digital edge infrastructure provider, specialising in cloud, colocation and connectivity services.[1]

History

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] Pulsant acquired Scottish-based colocation company ScoLocate in 2012.[7]

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]

Data Centre locations

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]

Royal Warrant

Pulsant were Royal Warrant holders to the British Royal Household as a provider of hosted IT and datacentre services [19] from 2013 - 2022.

Accreditations

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]

See also

• Cloud computing
• Colocation centre
• Datacenter
• Internet exchange
• List of Internet exchange points