| Pulsant | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Edge infrastructure provider |
| Founded: | 1996 (as edNET) |
| Hq Location City: | Maidenhead, England |
| Hq Location Country: | United Kingdom |
| Key People: | Rob Coupland, Brad Petzer, Ben Cranham, Mark Lewis, April Clark, Simon Michie, Victoria Mercer |
| Brands: | Pulsant Cloud |
| Services: | Internet services |
| Num Employees: | 400 |
| Subsid: | Onyx Group Limited, ScoLocate Limited, LayerV Ltd, Pulsant Intermediate Limited, DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd. |
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] 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]
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]
Pulsant were Royal Warrant holders to the British Royal Household as a provider of hosted IT and datacentre services [18] 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[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]