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Unlocking Growth for Northern FinTechs

FinTech is more than just a fast-growing industry; it can drive economic prosperity and improve quality of life, not just in the traditional financial hub of London, but across the whole of the UK. The sector’s success, especially outside the capital, is critical for regional growth and a more balanced national economy.

Securing Your Business's Future with Cloud Services

We're taking a look at how you can secure your business's future with cloud services and how security threats can seriously impact your business. Security concerns for cloud-based services often start small, with a missed update, a misconfigured setting, or an overlooked access point. But in practice, those small gaps can open into much wider vulnerabilities, affecting not just data but the ability to operate.

Compliance Requirements for Financial Services

We're taking a look at how you can secure your business's future with cloud services and how security threats can seriously impact your business. Moving to the cloud has changed the way organisations handle infrastructure, but for highly regulated sectors like finance, it’s never been a straightforward leap. It comes with serious scrutiny, and a long list of requirements to meet before any workloads can safely be moved off-prem.

2025 - The Year of Data Repatriation

For many businesses, 2020 marked the dawn of the cloud-first era, with organisations around the world embracing public cloud. And it made sense at the time; promise of reduced infrastructure costs, flexibility and scalability meant that leveraging cloud services was a no-brainer. But with any new technology, the shifting tides that come along with its proliferation also informs the cyclical nature of its adoption.

Reimagining the Data Centre: Respect, Resources, and the Path to a Sustainable Digital Future

When most people picture a data centre, they might think of a bland industrial shell—cold, humming, and forgettable. But look closer, and you’ll find something far more profound. A data centre is a heavy, complex, and finely tuned space where an immense volume of information flows, transforms, and creates the digital world we rely on. In many ways, it feels like magic. And yet, so does nature. Both deserve respect.

Shift Left: The Public to Private Cloud Evolution

We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over public, and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. In a previous post, we explored the drivers behind an organisation moving from an on-premise strategy to the use of private clouds.

Shift Right: The On-Premise to Private Cloud Evolution

We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over on-premise infrastructure and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. The adoption of cloud technology is determined by where data originated and is held, and how it is used.

Q&A with Waseem Aslam, Pulsant Data Centre Manager

With ten years at Pulsant, Waseem Aslam, Data Centre Manager, has climbed the ranks from engineer to leader, embracing challenges and innovation along the way. In this Q&A, he shares insights into his journey, the supportive Pulsant culture that kept him motivated, and the opportunities that have shaped his career.

A Northern Ren-AI-ssance

As the UK's most geographically diverse digital infrastructure provider, Pulsant champions regional thinking. Every day, there’s a push for technological innovation to go beyond the M25 and drive the brightest businesses nationwide. This has led to our focus on the Northern Powerhouse. We have invested extensively in data centres across Manchester, Rotherham and Newcastle.