Leading IT infrastructure services provider Pulsant has today announced a significant investment in a new national network enabling edge computing. The network will be facilitated through an agreement with Zayo Group Inc., a global leader in communications infrastructure.

The collaboration will see 10 Pulsant data centres across the UK connected via Zayo’s high-performance fibre network to build a unique digital ecosystem. This will allow clients to access and benefit from connections to the edge, no matter where they are located or where their business takes place.

The £8M investment will create and maintain a high-capacity, low latency and agile network capable of delivering sub 5 millisecond latency to over 95% of the UK population from Pulsant’s sovereign UK data centres. The new network will provide the infrastructure to support the next generation of innovative applications, as businesses look to adopt and deploy distributed multi-cloud strategies.

“At Pulsant we’ve always been committed to supporting the evolving needs of our clients. This collaboration  with Zayo provides a cutting-edge network that will unlock the opportunities of edge computing for many organisations,” said Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland. “Combining our diverse portfolio of data centres and Zayo’s innovative fibre solutions, this unique new network will bring reliable, scalable and high-capacity coverage to businesses across the whole of the UK.”

“Pulsant’s impressive network of data centres serving businesses in every region across the UK will be critical to meet the growing demands of edge cloud traffic,” added Zayo’s Managing Director of Europe,  Jesper Aagaard. “Coupled with Zayo’s unique, low latency fibre network, this digital infrastructure will drive the next evolution of edge computing and bring its benefits to customers.”

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About Pulsant

Pulsant is a leading IT infrastructure services provider with a core focus on colocation, cloud and networking to UK companies.  Pulsant connects organisations to a secure, scalable IT infrastructure and the UK’s digital edge through a national network of data centres and cloud platforms.

The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of services deployed on-premise, off-premise or using a hybrid approach whilst ensuring the security, compliance and resilience of business-critical applications.

For more information, visit https://www.pulsant.com/

About Zayo Group

Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 126,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated internet access and data center connectivity solutions. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone and through its CloudLink service, Zayo provides low-latency private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. For more information, visit https://zayo.com/

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Partnership enables businesses to benefit from fast, flexible, and high-performance connectivity for optimised cloud strategies.

Maidenhead, UK – 30 July 2020 –  Pulsant, a leading UK provider of regional data centre, cloud and managed services, has partnered with Megaport, a leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to strengthen connectivity for hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.

Leveraging 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 South Gyle, 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.

“Scalable connectivity between the data centre and the public cloud is now a prerequisite for modern businesses with hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. Through our Megaport Connected solution customers can now directly connect to public cloud environments from a network of regional data centres, enabling them to move their data fast and securely on a low latency, high capacity network, across and out of the UK” comments Simon Michie, CTO, Pulsant.

“Customers also increasingly need the flexibility to scale cloud consumption in line with their needs. With Pulsant Cloud Connect, we have designed a service which is fully managed and monitored, can scale up and down quickly as demand changes, and can be provisioned very quickly,” concludes Michie.

Cloud Connect can be used by customers who have a fully managed service from Pulsant or colocated infrastructure in Pulsant’s data centres. Fully-managed connectivity to Azure and AWS is provided by Pulsant with alternative Megaport supported clouds offered on an unmanaged service.

“Pulsant has established a very strong portfolio of UK regional data centres with a deep enterprise customer base” comments Eric Troyer, Chief Marketing Officer at Megaport. “The partnership helps to expand our UK network further to address the growing demand for cloud connectivity in-region. We are excited to support Pulsant’s mission to provide enhanced cloud connectivity in the North of the UK by helping companies to increase their speed to market and ability to scale.”

For more information, please visit the Cloud Connect webpage.

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Although cloud can be very intuitive and simple to configure, for many businesses without an in-house IT team skilled in cloud service delivery, configuring and managing your cloud environment can still be a complex task.

Pulsant’s Managed Cloud service takes on the management of your cloud environment, helping you with all stages of the process, across:

• Designing your cloud environment
• Planning your cloud environment and migration plan
• Moving your services to your new cloud environment
• Ongoing management and monitoring of your cloud environment
• Securing your cloud environment
• Ensuring your cloud environment is as performant as it can be

Using a trusted Managed Cloud provider takes away the worry of keeping your cloud environment running as efficiently as possible; ensuring that any capacity issues, bandwidth needs and potential cyber threats are monitored and dealt with quickly and proactively.

Without a managed cloud service, organisations need to manage their own billing, cloud design, configuration, storage and networking requirements. This in addition to, proactively monitoring the risk of cyber-attacks and ongoing maintenance can be a big task for existing IT teams to take on, so many look for a cloud provider like Pulsant to support them with their hybrid cloud environments.

Pulsant offers a range of different Managed Cloud options, across:

• Managed Azure IAAS
As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, Pulsant can manage and support your Azure environment, making moving to the public cloud easier than ever.

• Managed Office 365
Delegate the management, administration and support of your Office 365 environment to Pulsant. We can configure and migrate your systems over to Office 365 and then provide an ongoing fully managed service and support package.

• Pulsant Private Cloud
For when you need UK-based, enterprise cloud services in a secure and bespoke environment, Pulsant’s Private Cloud is the answer. And, our support and operational teams can manage the environment for you as a fully managed cloud service.

• Managed Azure Stack
If you need a hybrid mix of true public and private cloud services, then Azure Stack could be the answer. We can deliver Azure services from our enterprise UK data centres, and migrate services seamlessly over to Microsoft’s Azure cloud on-demand.

• Managed AWS
Unsure how to configure and manage AWS services as your IT requirements in the cloud become more complex? We can help with our managed service offerings around the AWS cloud.

• Pulsant Enterprise Cloud
Delivered from UK data centres and using the most robust, industry-leading technology, Pulsant Enterprise Cloud is your reliable choice for enterprise cloud computing needs. And our managed service wraparound helps you to bridge the gap between your in-house data centre technology and full public cloud services. This is a way to experience managed cloud services, with the security, availability and robustness of an enterprise data centre environment.

Why use a Managed Cloud service?
Cloud can seem easy. Sure, for simple applications that are ‘cloud ready’, moving to a public cloud environment can be straightforward.

But for enterprise IT environments, with a mix of services spread across public cloud environments, SaaS solutions and in-house IT, mixed with legacy applications that aren’t cloud-ready, moving to the cloud can quickly become complex.

That’s why Pulsant’s Managed Cloud service takes the pain out of the entire process. Our teams can walk you through the steps, from design and planning, through to migration and ongoing support and monitoring of your cloud environment.

Do I need a Managed Cloud service?
Many of our clients who we deliver Managed Cloud services for still retain their in-house IT teams to deliver frontline support or strategic IT projects. However, many organisations don’t have IT professionals in-house who have the experience and training to configure and deliver many of the industry-leading cloud services, and instead choose to work with technology partners like Pulsant to fill in any IT skills gaps when it comes to cloud.

Our teams are accredited to deliver, configure and support the leading cloud services, alongside being highly experienced in delivering Pulsant’s own cloud services.

There’s a few reasons why using our experts to deliver your Managed Cloud service can drive more value from your cloud investment:

• Compliance
Our experience and technical expertise will ensure your cloud environment adheres to the necessary cloud compliance regulations, such as GDPR and the Data Protection Act.

• Performance
We can help you to get the most out of your cloud’s performance and proactively identify any potential issues using our monitoring tools before they impact on your business.

• Cost-effectiveness
Get the most out of your cloud investment by using your capacity more effectively. We can quickly and easily scale your bandwidth up or down to match your business needs.

• Security
We get security. So let us focus on securing and monitoring your cloud environment so that you can focus on what really matters: your business.

Find out more about Pulsant’s Managed Cloud services, and the different options across the cloud services suite to find a solution that fits your business perfectly:

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