Tag: Pulsant

Pulsant snaps up cloud services provider Amito

Posted on February 28, 2022 by - News

It’s M&A time yet again! Cloudy Pulsant has written a cheque for Reading-based data centre and cloud services provider Amito.

The acquisition is the latest move in Pulsant’s geographic expansion plans and its ambitions to bring edge computing to every business in every region of the UK.

The acquisition is Pulsant’s second within two months, following the acquisition of a Manchester data centre and associated clients from M247 Limited. The deal includes the company’s 15,000 sq ft and 800 rack data centre in Reading which provides 2.9MW of IT load capacity and has been built from the ground up with energy efficiency in mind.

Pulsant operates an established network of 11 regional edge data centres across the UK, delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud, colocation and networking services. The move further strengthens Pulsant’s presence in the South East of England, adding to existing data centre sites in Croydon, Maidenhead, Milton Keynes and Reading.

Pulsant makes top hires

Posted on August 12, 2020 by - News

Data centre outfit Pulsant has announced Rob Spamer has joined Pulsant as Director of Data Centres and Demyon Wright has been appointed Head of Service Management.

As Director of Data Centres, Spamer is responsible for the management and leadership of Pulsant’s network of regional data centres, including driving best practice and standardisation and enhancing the company’s environmental strategy.

Spamer joined Pulsant from Equinix where he held the position of Operations Manager. Prior to this he worked as Data Centre Operations Manager London for Telecity Group UK. Spamer joined Pulsant at the end of 2019 in the role of Interim Director of Data Centres and has now assumed the role on a permanent basis.

Pulsant pairs with Megaport on clouds

Posted on July 31, 2020 by - News

Regional data centre, cloud and managed services, Pulsant has partnered with Megaport, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to strengthen connectivity for hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.

Using Megaport’s software defined network (SDN), Pulsant customers can now connect their infrastructure directly to Megaport points of presence housed within Pulsant data centres in Milton Keynes, South London and Edinburgh, to access a multi-cloud ecosystem.

Delivered via Pulsant’s Cloud Connect service and through Megaport’s scalable, private network, customers can connect to over 360 service providers, including major hyperscalers like Alibaba, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Nutanix, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, and SAP via a single port. Customers can benefit from secure, fast and flexible connectivity across regions, countries and continents, enabling organisations to scale their business faster, access new markets and deliver local services to global clients.

Cloud outfit Pulsant poaches HP man

Posted on July 8, 2013 by - Moving People, News

cloud (264 x 264)Pulsant has appointed Nigel Shaw as its new Chief Operating Officer.

Shaw is a refugee from the maker of expensive printer ink Hewlett-Packard.  He was recently managing director and vice president of HP Defence UK.

His task is doubly daunting since Pulsant was formed from merging four different outfits: Scolocate, Lumison, Dedipower and Bluesquare.

This year will be the first financial year the Pulsant brand has operated as a single entity.

It has been doing well since the merger and managed growth of over 50 percent in 2012 compared to 2011.

Pulsant CEO, Mark Howling, said that Shaw has a track record in delivering high quality services in complex technical environments. He is also very experienced at managing large organisations over multiple sites.

Shaw replaces Aydin Kurt-Elli, who founded Lumison as an Internet Service Provider in 1995 and was its CEO until it was acquired by Pulsant in October 2010, when he became COO of the new company. Kurt-Elli remains at Pulsant as a non-executive director.

Howling said Shaw brings a wealth of experience and capabilities to the role of COO and understands how to take best practice from some of the world’s largest technology organisations.