Golf Tournament Was a Success!

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Picture this, 98 degrees (feels like 150), the clubs are hot to touch, and you are sweating in the shade. Would you think this is an ideal scenario for a golf tournament? Probably not. But despite the hot conditions, the 1102 GRAND Annual Golf Tournament, had almost 100 participants! We would like to thank our customers, vendors, others from the IT/Telecom community, and Deer Creek Golf Club for making the 4th Annual Tournament a success.

Congratulations to all the winners:

First Flight-

• 1st Place – James Networks
• 2nd Place – K&W Underground
• 3rd Place – Time Warner Cable Business Class

Second Flight-

• 1st Place – KCNAP
• 2nd Place – Lan-Tel Communications/tw telecom
• 3rd Place – 1102 GRAND/NIC/RSM McGladrey

• Closest to the Pin – Don Burkhart (Mobile Communications Group)
• Longest Putt (9) – Tim Lattimer (RSM McGladrey)
• Men’s Longest Drive – Chris Hendrickson (James Networks)
• Women’s Longest Drive – Carody Kephart (GSI)
• Longest Putt (18) – Duke DeKay (1102 GRAND)

The tournament was also a rewarding networking opportunity for all. Ideas were exchanged, new introductions were made, and business deals are still unfolding as a result of the event. To us at 1102 GRAND, that makes it a success.

Now it is time to get to work on our next Networking Event at Boulevard Brewery. Mark your calendars for September 17th!

Here are a few team photos

Brad Hoffman, ISG; Miles Franz, ISG; Henry Weber, FuseMail; Bryan Heitman, FuseMail

Don Burkhart, Mobile Communications Group; Carody Kephart, GSI; Jonathan Lavender, GSI; Kelly Kephart; GSI

Craig Young, ShoMe Technologies; Brent Robinson, TW Telecom; Rod Couch, K-Powernet; DJ Good, LK Communications

Chris Spear, David Edwards, Dan Hamilton and Steve Wilson of Wilson Construction

Larry Foland, Ted Bolin & Chris Rey of Time Warner Business Class

Rainy day golf tournament

06 - 18 - 09

All viable collocation facilities are going to have varying degrees of the necessary critical infrastructure across the space, power, cooling, connectivity, and services categories. At 1102 GRAND, we believe there is also another component that is often overlooked when evaluating facilities and that is the team who owns and operates the data center your organization is considering. At the end of the day, it all comes down to people, and the 1102 GRAND team loves helping connect our tenants, vendors, and service providers to each other. People purchase products and services, recommend service providers to peers, and create innovative solutions to real world business problems. That is why 1102 GRAND puts together regular networking events for our tenants, vendors, and others in the industry. Our goal is to help facilitate business by bringing entities together both from a business development and physical interconnection standpoint. 1102 GRAND is more than a major Midwestern hub for the internet… we are a hub for commerce, and we hope that you will choose to be a part of the experience we are building here one interconnection at a time.

Giving away prizes from our great sponsors during lunch

Our most recent event was our 4th annual golf tournament held June 9th at Deer Creek Golf Club in Overland Park, KS (a suburb of Kansas City). Although rain and hail kept us from playing, we saw a strong turnout of registered players. We could not have done it without our ongoing support from event sponsors including: Fluke Networks, Cogent Communications, Media Venture Partners, Stallard Technologies, Graybar, Time Warner Cable Business Class, LanTel, K&W Underground, Kim Wilson Construction, K-PowerNet, Westhues Electric, KCNAP, Apex Systems Inc., Missouri Network Alliance, Bick Group, ATNI, DAMAC Products, The Kansas City Business Journal, Multiwave Digital Solutions, and Jennings PR.

In addition to the sponsors above, the following organizations registered to participate in the tournament: Acknowledge, Asurion Insurance Services, Balance Point, Black & Veatch, Coffman Group, Commercial Capital Company, Core Mechanical, DataEdge, Examinetics, FuseMail, GSI, Holland International, Hovey Williams LLP, KNK Telecom, JamesNetworks, LK Communications, MDL Technologies, Mersoft, NIC, North American Savings Bank, Occu-Tec, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Ruxter, ServiceMark Telecom, ShoMe Technologies, Sprint, State of Missouri, SureWest, tw telecom, University of Phoenix, US Fiberworks, Verizon Business, and Westlake Ace Hardware.

The rain kept us off the greens, but everyone still got to network

Despite the stormy weather that kept everyone inside, the turnout was fantastic and a good time was had by all. Hot dogs and hamburgers were enjoyed and prizes were given out as well. Several people commented that without golf, more networking opportunities were available throughout the day.

Stay tuned as the tournament is rescheduled for June 23 at Deer Creek Golf Club.

by Greg Elliott