Pulsant

Pulsant is a provider of datacenter services, colocation, workplace recovery, with a core focus on security, resilience and connectivity.
History.
Established in 1995 as EdNET, an ISP, the company was rebranded as Lumison in 2004. Lumison was acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital 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 datacentre operator.
Pulsant acquired Scottish-based colocation company ScoLocate in 2012.
The company was refinanced by Oak Hill Capital in 2014. 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 has completed the acquisition of LayerV, a specialist public cloud solution integration company, with a strong focus on compliance, security and cloud automation.
Datacentre locations.
Pulsant owns several datacentres across multiple locations throughout the UK. These include three sites in Scotland, Edinburgh, South Gyle and Newbridge, as well as six in England; Sheffield, Newcastle, Maidenhead, South London, Milton Keynes and Reading.
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 received the Royal Warrant in 2013 as a provider of hosted IT and datacentre services to the British Royal Household.
Accreditations.
Pulsant is certified to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 across all operations and holds a level 1 PCI-DSS validation for physical security at three of its sites. The company is also a Cyber Essentials Certifying Body, licensed to certify for Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and IASME governance standard.
In 2013 Pulsant was awarded CSA Star certification for cloud security by the British Standards Institution (BSI Group).