Pulsant

Pulsant | September 09, 2014

Cloud, managed hosting and colocation provider Pulsant has announced the expansion of its South Gyle Tier III modular datacentre. Matt Lovell, chief technology officer at Pulsant said the move is a sign of growing demand for cloud services in Scotland.The company, which claims to be Scotland’s largest datacentre provider, has constructed two data halls, each containing 64 racks, and secure storage areas. It has also implemented two factor authentication for secure access, which can be configured...

Pulsant | June 09, 2016

Cloud services and co-location firm Pulsant has acquired Onyx, an IT infrastructure services provider. The acquisition will benefit both existing and potential customers, said Pulsant. The acquisition price has not been disclosed but industry analyst TechMarketView reckons it’s around £65 million....

Pulsant | June 09, 2016

After its CEO recently told CRN it will continue on the acquisition trail, cloud outfit Pulsant has made a big buy in the form of Onyx as it announced the arrival of a new chairman. The addition of Onyx, Pulsant's first major acquisition since the arrival of new private equity investors two years ago, will create an outfit with revenues of £75m, 400 staff, 4,000 customers and a network of 15 owned and operated UK datacentres....

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...