Pulsant

Company type| Private
Industry| Edge infrastructure provider
Founded| 1996 (as edNET)
Headquarters|

Maidenhead, England

United Kingdom

Key people

| Rob Coupland, Brad Petzer, Ben Cranham, Mark Lewis, April Clark, Simon Michie, Victoria Mercer
Brands| Pulsant Cloud
Services| Internet services

Number of employees

| 400
Subsidiaries| Onyx Group Limited, ScoLocate Limited, LayerV Ltd, Pulsant Intermediate Limited, DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd.
Website| www.pulsant.com

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

## History

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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[clarification needed] company, with a strong focus on compliance, security and cloud automation.[12][13][14]

## Data Centre locations

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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 nine in England; Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle x 2, Maidenhead, South London, 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]

## Royal Warrant

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Pulsant were Royal Warrant holders to the British Royal Household as a provider of hosted IT and datacentre services [18] from 2013 - 2022.

## Accreditations

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Pulsant is certified to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 across 10 data centres. Recently acquired Reading South and Manchester[19][20] 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).[21][22]

## See also

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

## References

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1. ^ "History". Pulsant. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
2. ^ "Lumison brand set to be leading light in UK". The Scotsman. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
3. ^ Trendall, Sam (1 November 2010). "Lumison plans buy-and-build spree after Bridgepoint investment". Channel Web. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
4. ^ Curtis, Sophie (9 March 2012). "Lumison, DediPower and Bluesquare merge to become Pulsant". TechWorld from IDG. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
5. ^ "Launch of Pulsant Creates Powerful New IT & Hosting Partner for the UK Mid-Market". PR Newswire (a CISION company). 8 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
6. ^ "Launch of Pulsant". 8 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
7. ^ Staff (20 December 2012). "Pulsant buys out ScoLocate". TechRadar. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
8. ^ "Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquire Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners". Pulsant. Pulsant. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
9. ^ Verge, Jason (19 June 2014). "Oak Hill Acquires European Data Center Provider Pulsant". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
10. ^ DNC Staff (9 March 2015). "Pulsant acquires the IT consultancy business of Spinnaker Red". DNC: Data Center News. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
11. ^ "Pulsant announces acquisition of Onyx and appoints Mike Tobin as chairman". SEP: Scottish Equity Partners. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
12. ^ "Pulsant acquires public cloud solution integration company LayerV". SEP: Scottish Equity Partners. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
13. ^ "LayerV is acquired by leading UK hybrid cloud provider Pulsant". LayerV blog. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
14. ^ Lima, João Marques (16 August 2017). "Pulsant Acquires Compliance, Security And Cloud Automation Provider". Data Economy. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
15. ^ "Pulsant Colocation". Pulsant. Pulsant. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
16. ^ "Scotland's largest commercial data centre set for expansion". Scottish Construction Now. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
17. ^ Donald, Colin (13 October 2013). "LINX set to revolutionise Scotland's connections with the world". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
18. ^ "Member Directory". The Royal Warrant Holders Association. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
19. ^ "Pulsant acquires Amito in second acquisition in two months". Pulsant. 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
20. ^ "Pulsant acquires Manchester data centre as part of edge computing strategy". Pulsant. 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
21. ^ "Client Case Study - Pulsant". BSI Group. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
22. ^ "BSI case study - Pulsant" (PDF). BSI Group. Retrieved 9 June 2017.