Pulsant is a

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edge infrastructure provider, specialising in

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and connectivity services.

History

Established in 1995 as EdNET, an

ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privatel ...

, the company was rebranded as

Lumison Pulsant is a Digital economy, digital edge infrastructure provider, specialising in cloud, Colocation centre, colocation and connectivity services. History Established in 1995 as EdNET, an Internet service provider, ISP, the company was rebrand ...

in 2004. Lumison was acquired by

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in 2010 and Pulsant was formed in 2011, following the integration of Lumison, a managed service provider; Dedipower, a managed hosting company; and Bluesquare Data, a

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operator. Pulsant acquired Scottish-based colocation company ScoLocate in 2012.

Antin Infrastructure Partners Antin Infrastructure Partners is a private equity firm focused on infrastructure investment, with offices in Paris, London and Luxembourg. History Antin was founded in Paris in 2007. Initially sponsored by BNP Paribas, the firm bought out the bank ...

Acquire Pulsant from Oak Hill Capital and Scottish Equity Partners in 2021. Previously the company was refinanced by

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from 2014 - 2021. In 2015 Pulsant acquired the consulting arm of Spinnaker Red, and in 2016 acquired IT infrastructure services company Onyx. 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,

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and cloud automation.

Data Centre locations

Pulsant owns several

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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. The company occupies space in facilities in New York, Dallas, Boston, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Frankfurt. Pulsant's South Gyle facility in Edinburgh hosts IXScotland, Scotland's first dedicated internet exchange.

Royal Warrant

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

Accreditations

Pulsant is certified to

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and

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across 10 data centres. Recently acquired Reading South and Manchester will be accredited to the same level in Q1 2023. Pulsant also holds a level 1

PCI-DSS The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands. The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council and its use i ...

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 (

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References

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History

Data Centre locations

Royal Warrant

Accreditations

See also

References