Case Study: Thistle Foundation achieves seamless, secure cloud migration and business continuity with Pulsant Enterprise Cloud

Thistle Foundation migrates to Pulsant Enterprise Cloud

Thistle Foundation, an Edinburgh charity that supports people with long-term health conditions, faced an ageing IT estate ahead of a move to a new Centre of Wellbeing and needed a cost-effective, low‑maintenance solution that would support ~300 mobile personal care assistants. With a small IT team unable to absorb the time and cost of replacing on‑premise servers, Thistle selected Pulsant as its managed hosting and cloud provider and chose Pulsant Enterprise Cloud to meet its availability, redundancy and remote‑access requirements.

Pulsant migrated Thistle’s servers and applications to its Enterprise Cloud in a staged rollout beginning January 2016, moving the majority of services within three months while providing ongoing patching, maintenance and VPN access. The result was a seamless switchover with no loss of service during the organisation’s five‑day building move, uninterrupted access for mobile staff, proven business continuity and freed IT capacity to focus on projects — outcomes delivered and supported directly by Pulsant.

Thistle Foundation

Scott Moncrieff

IT manager