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By Pulsant
UK organisations using cloud services carry a clear legal obligation: they must demonstrate compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, not simply assert it. The shift to cloud and hosted infrastructure does not transfer that responsibility to a provider. It distributes it across a chain of controllers and processors that regulators expect you to understand and manage. Post-Brexit, that obligation is set within a distinct legal framework.
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By Pulsant
Over the past five years, one of the most consistently tracked figures in the UK business technology sector has been the flight from public cloud. Barclays' 2021 CIO survey revealed that 43% of enterprises plan to shift workloads away from public cloud. By 2024, that had grown to 83%. Research for Pulsant in 2025 found that 87% of UK businesses planned to repatriate data away from the public cloud within the next two years.
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By Pulsant
Businesses migrating from a single, public cloud provider has been the direction of travel of UK digital infrastructure for years. As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43% of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure. Since then, IDC, Gartner and a host of vendor surveys have tracked an increase in this intention.
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By OpsMatters
Tech headlines are being dominated by the perfect storm that has led to a global shortage of Random Access Memory (RAM). As the short-term, temporary memory that handles data for processing and applications, RAM - and specifically Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) - is a foundational business technology.
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By Pulsant
As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43% of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure1. Since then, IDC, Gartner and a host of vendor surveys have tracked an increase in this intention.
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By Pulsant
London still hosts the biggest concentration of UK data centre capacity, but the centre of gravity is starting to move. AI workloads are changing the infrastructure maths, pushing power, space and planning considerations up the decision list. That is exactly where regional locations start to look like the sensible option. Government data shows how concentrated the market remains: as of autumn 2024, London is estimated at 1,048MW of colocation IT load. Compare that with 44MW in the East of England, 17MW in the North East and 30MW in Scotland. The gap is huge, yet it is not a permanent advantage.
In recent days, the headlines of most technology titles have been dominated by the perfect storm that has led to a global shortage of Random Access Memory (RAM). As the short-term, temporary memory that handles data for processing and applications, RAM - and specifically Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) - is a foundational business technology.
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By Pulsant
Data centre security must meet strict compliance and risk standards, giving regulators, insurers, and clients confidence that critical data is protected. Without it, organisations risk audit failure, downtime, and reputational damage. For executives and auditors, data centre security is part of wider governance and risk management. Oversight means confirming that physical safeguards, environmental systems, and compliance frameworks are in place and can be trusted.
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By Pulsant
Cloud residency has moved from a technical preference to a board-level control question, as organisations are being asked to evidence who can access data, under which jurisdictions, and what happens when something goes wrong across borders. A Gartner survey of CIOs and IT leaders in Western Europe found that 61% expect geopolitical factors to increase their reliance on local or regional cloud providers, while also predicting that by 2030, more than 75% of enterprises outside the US will have a digital sovereignty strategy.
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By Pulsant
Ahead of his participation in techUK’s Digital Transformation from the Edge to the Cloud event, we sit down with Pulsant CTO Mike Hoy to ask him how distributed cloud and edge are reshaping the digital ambitions of UK businesses. Q: So Mike, what are the main issues firms face in designing/redesigning their digital infrastructure in 2026?
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By PulsantUK
Data sovereignty wasn’t a major topic just a few years ago and now it’s becoming a major economic opportunity for regions across the UK. In this clip from Perspectives from the Edge, Katie Gallagher OBE from Manchester Digital discusses why the conversation around data sovereignty has shifted, and how the rise of AI is accelerating demand for trusted regional digital infrastructure. As organisations rethink where data is stored, processed and governed, regions like Manchester are increasingly well placed to benefit through investment, innovation and digital skills growth.
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By PulsantUK
Manchester is one of the UK’s leading tech ecosystems – but how did it get there? In this episode, Pulsant’s Wendy Shearer speaks with Katie Gallagher from Manchester Digital about Manchester’s rise as a powerhouse for UK tech, data sovereignty, innovation, talent and inclusive growth. Discover how the region has evolved from its strong industrial heritage into a thriving digital economy now home to major FTSE 100 companies and six unicorn businesses.
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By PulsantUK
In this teaser for an upcoming episode of Perspectives from the Edge, Wendy Shearer, Director of Partners & Ecosystems at Pulsant, speaks with Kate Gallagher, Managing Director at Manchester Digital, about how Manchester has become one of the UK’s leading technology ecosystems and a model for regional innovation and growth.
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By PulsantUK
Join Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland in an exclusive interview with Phil Alsop, Editor at Data Centre Solutions (@datacentres), as they explore Pulsant’s £10 million investment in the Milton Keynes data centre. This upgrade delivers high-density, sovereign computing capacity, helping businesses accelerate AI and tech projects while keeping data secure and local. Rob also shares plans to expand this high-density model across the UK, supporting enterprise AI at scale and boosting local economies.
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By PulsantUK
In the latest Platform Insight interview, Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland discusses Pulsant’s evolution into the only truly UK‑wide, interconnected data centre platform. The conversation with Nicola Hayes of @PlatformMarketsGroup explores the growing momentum behind edge and sovereign infrastructure, and why real‑world enterprise demand is shaping the next phase of AI. If you want to understand where the UK digital infrastructure landscape is heading – and why regional platforms matter more than ever – this is a must‑watch.
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By PulsantUK
Perspectives from the Edge: Episode 2 Data sovereignty isn't a solo effort. It's a symphony. Data sovereignty is moving fast up the agenda. But who's orchestrating it? The second episode of Perspectives from the Edge explores the subject through an analyst’s laser lens, in conversation with Kate Hanaghan, Chief Research Officer at TechMarketView. Find out how AI and platform consolidation make data harder to control, how to bake sovereignty into your business from the start – and why the organisations getting it right treat ecosystems as a strategy, not just a procurement exercise.
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By PulsantUK
Data sovereignty isn’t a checkbox – it’s now a board-level priority. Data sovereignty is everywhere right now, but for many organisations, it still feels abstract. In this first episode of Perspectives from the Edge, Assad Noori, Head of Digital Infrastructure Advisory for the UK at KPMG, speaks with Pulsant's Wendy Shearer, about why sovereignty has become a board-level issue, how AI and hybrid infrastructure are reshaping long-held assumptions, and why decisions about where data lives, moves, and is accessed now carry far wider implications than most organisations expect.
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By Pulsant
Rob & Simon discuss the journey to PlatformEDGE and the benefits it delivers for UK regional businesses.
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By Pulsant
PlatformEDGE combines regional data centres, distrubuted compute and low latency connectivity to deliver improved performance, growth at scale and transformation for regional businesses across the UK. Our integrated platform reaches 95% of UK businesses through our strategically located data centres on the edge network of all major UK cities. Get secure, fast, and controlled access to data, where and when you need it.
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Pulsant is the UK’s premier digital edge infrastructure company providing next-generation cloud, colocation and connectivity services. With a network of 12 strategically located edge data centres, Pulsant brings the advances of edge computing within reach of 95 per cent of the UK population.
Our edge infrastructure platform is used by businesses across the UK to build, connect and deploy the hybrid workloads they need to reach their digital goals and drive competitive advantage.
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- Edge Data Centres: Our network of owned and operated colocation facilities are within low latency reach of the UK's major cities.
- Agile Connections: Interconnection across all of our locations is delivered by a private high-speed network giving reliable, scalable and high-capacity coverage to businesses across the whole of the UK.
- Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid cloud services combine public and private cloud ensuring the right edge workload can run in the best location, with automation, security and cost management handled through a single platform.
- Flexible Contracting: Our finance model allows costs to move between Pulsant services. Help to reduce spiralling costs and preparing our clients for the transformation towards edge computing.
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