Exponential-e is the first UK MSP to join nLighten's nAlliance Partner Program, bringing together two complementary strengths:
- nLighten's network of sustainable, carrier-neutral edge data centres located across Europe.
- Exponential-e's evolving portfolio of IT innovations, delivered in intelligently integrated solution wraps for organisations across the public and enterprise sectors.
Together, we offer customers a powerful combination of proximity, performance, and sustainability.
This partnership was founded on a shared goal – to provide secure, sovereign, and intelligently integrated digital solutions that are closer to the user, greener, and smarter.
With the breadth of services Exponential-e delivers, geolocation is a critical priority for us in terms of both compliance and performance, particularly in an increasingly complex regulatory and cyber security landscape. The partnership with nLighten will allow us to fulfil these requirements to the letter, ensuring our customers' data is hosted in the optimal locations, in highly secure, compliant, and sustainable environments. This way, our teams will be able to guarantee the performance and availability of all critical platforms, while simultaneously ensuring the fulfilment of all security, compliance, and environmental goals.
Mark Cooper - Partner Engagement Manager at Exponential-e.
The Challenge
Businesses today face growing challenges in digital transformation – from managing complex hybrid architectures to meeting sustainability targets and data sovereignty requirements.
Our partnership was created to solve challenges such as:
- The drive for fully sovereign geolocated hosting environments across the UK and Europe in order to optimise the performance of the most data-intensive applications.
- A more sustainable approach to data hosting that supports organisations' long-term environmental goals.
- A growing need for fully integrated solution wraps that enable organisations to consolidate multiple areas of their IT infrastructure for greater control, visibility, and agility.
- An increasingly complex regulatory landscape concerning the hosting and management of critical data.
Together, we're helping customers overcome latency, connectivity, and compliance barriers that traditional centralised infrastructures can't meet.
Our joint value proposition:
Delivering fully managed, high-performance IT solutions hosted in strategically located, sustainable edge data centres, enabling organisations to scale securely, reduce latency, and meet evolving regulatory requirements.
The Joint Solution
The combined nLighten + Exponential-e solution offers:
- nLighten's contribution: local, low-latency data centre infrastructure, powered by renewable energy, with carrier-neutral interconnection and high resilience.
- Exponential-e's contribution: the critical platforms and applications organisations depend on, delivered as fully managed services on a foundation of world-class hosting environments, accelerating digital transformation initiatives
Customers benefit from reduced latency, improved resilience, and a lower environmental footprint across their entire IT infrastructure, in every location in which they are active.
Looking Ahead
As part of the nAlliance Partner Program, this collaboration represents our commitment to innovation, local empowerment, and long-term sustainability. We will continue to explore new joint offerings and customer initiatives that expand our impact across Europe – helping businesses stay connected, compliant, and ready for the digital future.
About nLighten and the nAlliance Program
nLighten operates a growing network of 34 edge data centres across seven European countries, bringing digital infrastructure closer to where people and businesses operate. Through the nAlliance Partner Program, we collaborate with technology, connectivity, and service partners to deliver scalable, sustainable solutions at the edge.
Together, we're redefining how digital services are delivered – faster, smarter, and closer to the customer.
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Hampshire & IoW NHS Trust - a leading provider of community, mental health, and learning disability services - has approximately 6,000 staff that operate across 120 sites and has an annual income of over £255 million. The Trust's services are provided across a wide geographical area, covering Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight, and parts of Hampshire. Services cover sites such as community hospitals and outpatient environments, as well as other community settings, such as health centres, children's centres, and within people's homes.
In 2021, noting the expiry of its current outsourced contract, the Trust made the decision to go out to tender in order to select a new group of technology partners to support a full revamp of their legacy IT infrastructure. Beyond the replacement of outdated hardware, this represented an opportunity for the Trust to develop a new operating model that would not only be fully optimised for the current healthcare landscape, but also offer ample room to scale and evolve in the future.
Following a rigorous tender process - focusing on candidates' technical capabilities and geographical reach, experience with the healthcare sector's singular compliance, governance, data protection challenges, responsiveness, and proactivity when it came to patient needs – Exponential-e were selected to support the delivery of:
Agile IT support, providing service desk and full life cycle end-user device management, freeing end users to focus on patient care
Modern, reliable end user devices (laptops etc.) that support remote working and increase productivity for the Trust's entire workforce
A seamless IT experience, allowing a mobile workforce, operating across all its locations, to move effortlessly between sites and devices, with associated IT service management tool sets
Effective technology change programmes, to ensure staff, end users, and patients enjoy the full range of available benefits
Critical to this new partnership is the close cultural fit between both organisations – something that became readily apparent throughout the tender process. In particular, the Trust's HEART values resonated especially strongly with the team at Exponential-e, who saw a close parallel with their own company culture – something that helped both teams quickly form a strong rapport.
As Afshin Attari, Director of Public Sector & Unified Platforms at Exponential-e, commented:
"It's an exciting period for the healthcare sector as a whole, with the higher adaption of new digital technology and ways of working. There is clear opportunity to make more effective use of data and digital technology by providing staff with better access to digital tools and patient records, and by bringing improvements to the planning and delivery of services, based on the analysis of patient and population data. It's partnerships like the one between Solent and Exponential-e that are keeping this momentum going, ensuring technological innovation is always in the service of patient care."
Andrew Strevens, Chief Executive Officer at Solent NHS Trust, elaborated:
"Exponential-e's experience in healthcare technology made them a strong potential partner, but it was their willingness to understand where we were, where we wanted to be, and – most importantly – their willingness to tackle any associated ICT challenges head-on. It has been exciting to see the level of engagement across every area of this project from teams at both companies, and I look forward to continuing our work together."
Over the course of the next six months, Exponential-e will manage the migration process, ensuring this does not create any disruption to the Trust's day-to-day operations, with dedicated account, service delivery, and operations teams working closely with internal teams and those from across the partner ecosystem to deliver an effective deployment. The teams from Exponential-e will be on-hand throughout this process and beyond, ensuring staff across all sites are properly supported and able to make use of these new tools straight away.
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