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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews IT Cloud Budgets

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Posted by: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

I ran across an article on Forbes.com by Joe McKendrick that discusses how IT departments are now devoting a good portion of their budgets to the cloud. 1102 GRAND is a Midwest colocation facility and Internet hub, and we have seen quite a few new and existing customers building out their own private cloud which resides at 1102 GRAND. Some of our customers offer their private cloud as a solution for those companies that need to adhere to PCI, HIPPA, SOX or other compliances and are not able to utilize public cloud. The offerings are evolving daily, so if you have a need and want to learn more, let me know and I would be happy to help. We offer the best of both worlds. You can collocate your company’s equipment in our data center facility and have full control of it, but you can also tap into the multiple private cloud offerings at 1102 GRAND as you wish. I would be happy to work on a solution for you and your company. I can be reached at greg@1102grand.com.

More Than One-Third of IT Budgets Now Spent on Cloud: Survey

Companies are investing heavily in cloud computing, a new survey of 1,650 IT and business executives shows. On average, they report, more than a third, 34%, of their current IT budgets are now allocated to cloud computing solutions.

These are some of the findings of the IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study, conducted in January 2012. Most of these budgets are going to private clouds hosted within the walls of enterprises. Private cloud deployments are currently where the majority of information is stored in the cloud (24%), and the trend will continue to dominate 18 months from now (33%).

The fact that cloud now comprises more than one-third slice of IT budgets suggests the computing approach has gained serious traction within enterprises. And cloud isn’t just being brought in to enhance applications or to save money. One-fourth of respondents from the business side, in fact, report they believe cloud will play a critical role in shaping business strategy.

Cloud may grab an even bigger slice of IT budgets in the next few years. Close to two-thirds of companies expect to increase cloud spending in the next 12 months. On average, organizations will increase cloud computing spending by 16%.

Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews Cloud Computing Technology Strategies

Friday, March 9th, 2012

By: Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

I would be willing to bet if you asked ten people what their definition of cloud computing technology is, you would probably get ten different answers. There are a number of reasons why this is the case and there are quite a few levels to understand. There are a number of ways we are seeing our clients at 1102 GRAND develop their cloud strategies. The two we have seen to be the most popular are:

1) Clients have their own private cloud, utilizing their infrastructure that physically resides in private rack or cage space at 1102 GRAND. Some are building out their private cloud for internal uses and others are offering private cloud as a service to their customers.

2) Clients are developing a hybrid cloud approach, utilizing private cloud for their sensitive information and using the public cloud for other data.

I ran across an article, “Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It’s All About Hyper-Hybrid,” by Thor Olav of CIO, that dives deeper into the hybrid approach.

Cloud is certainly not a one size fits all approach, and each company will have to decide what will work best for their overall strategy. If you want to be in touch with companies that are offering private cloud services at 1102 GRAND, I would be happy to make the connection for you. Also, if you would like to check out 1102 GRAND, let me know at greg@1102grand.com.

Also, come and join us at Centriq’s Cloud Intelligence Conference – April 12, 2012 in Overland Park. Learn more and register here!

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Kansas City’s Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Data Center Knowledge Article: Go Daddy & The Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

As I have mentioned in previous posts, I believe cloud computing has a place in today’s market, but I still firmly believe it is more buzz than reality. I’m not saying that it does not exist because of course it does and some are doing it very well. Instead, I am merely saying that it still represents a very small portion of the market although I expect cloud computing to grow once it evolves. Until then, I still stand by the fact that most companies are best suited for a hybrid collocation model (primarily collocation with certain elements in a hosted or cloud environment).

ComputerEarthConnection450 Kansas Citys Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Data Center Knowledge Article: Go Daddy & The Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure

According to a Data Center Knowledge Article, “Go Daddy & The Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure,” “Cloud computing has provided exciting new opportunities for developers and start-ups, and is gaining meaningful traction with enterprise customers. But for the moment, cloud computing’s mindshare is bigger than its market share. As of June of 2010, Tier 1 Research estimated that cloud computing represented 2 percent of the IT infrastructure market. Even if it has doubled in size over the past year – as suggested bydata shared by Amazon- that still suggests market share of about 5 percent.”

“IDC has somewhat higher estimates, saying cloud represented 5 percent of IT spending in 2009 and will increase its share to 10 percent by 2o13. That would still leave 90 percent of IT spending focused on other delivery methods.”

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Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Virtualization

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

Virtualization is very common in today’s data center environment and in companies of all sizes and vertical markets. While this can potentially be a great cost-savings strategy due to the inherent benefits, there are some “gotchas” to watch out for including security. If you are thinking about virtualization or are already actively utilizing it, I encourage you to check out the following article, written by Jon Brodkin of Network World, which discusses how security risks can be mitigated in virtualized systems.

Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualized systems?

“Virtualization is not inherently insecure. However, most virtualized workloads are being deployed insecurely.”

That’s what Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald wrote earlier this year in a report titled “Addressing the Most Common Security Risks in Data Center Virtualization Projects.”

Planning for virtualization projects should always include the information security team, but according to Gartner survey data about 40% of virtualization projects were undertaken without the security team’s involvement in initial architecture and planning stages.

Virtualization Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Virtualization

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Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Power Tips

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

It is no secret that power is a vital component in data centers and collocation environments. Every once in a while, we will see customers make critical mistakes with regard to power within their cabinets and cages. There is nothing worse

than paying for redundant power only to find yourself facing a power outage as a result of poor power housekeeping.

Here are a few tips to help ensure the desired power redundancy is there when you need it-

1. Label cabinet level power distribution units (PDUs) with the circuit information (number of amps, circuit purpose/name, etc.) and whether it is primary power (A feed) or redundant power (B feed). If you load balance across two circuits, label them circuit A1 and circuit A2 for example.

2. Ensure that equipment is connected to the appropriate PDU. Redundant power will not do you any good if both power supplies are connected to the primary feed, and it goes down whether planned or unplanned.

3. Plan ahead before ordering equipment and ensure you have enough power to support the additional load. If you are at your limit, either order additional power from your collocation provider or look for ways to reduce your existing load (turning off equipment you do not need, virtualizing, etc.). Remeber the 80 percent rule on circuits delivered to your cabinet too. We have seen numerous customers just plug additional equipment in only to learn they were beyond the circuits limit when the breaker popped taking down all of the equipment connected to the same circuit.

4. Document your power. It does not have to be anything fancy, but a simple drawing showing what equipment is connected to which circuits can be a lifesaver in an emergency. Just remember that you may not always be the person working within the cabinet, and a little documentation can go a long way.

Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Power Tips

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Kansas City Data Center’s, Darren Bonawitz, Reviews Convergence & Voice in Podcast

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

In the past five to 10 years, for a lot of organizations, there were always two different camps. There was the telecom person and the IT person. In a lot of cases, unfortunately, these two people did not always see eye to eye on things.

In the economic down turn about 10 years ago, there was a lot of technical personnel restructuring as businesses decided how to do more with less. In a lot of cases, it was the telecom guy who was let go. The front side of it seemed like the IT guy won because they got to retain their job. Unfortunately, that was pretty short lived. They realized that they were now responsible for voice. Suddenly they were expected to be the resident guru in their organization on a platform they really didn’t know a lot about. That is because for a long time the communication infrastructure had been kept separate from IT. Now as time has gone by, these technologies have converged to a large extent.

During this transition, IT leaders had to learn the nuances of voice and the associated impact on their environment especially in voice over IP or VOIP deployments. So after technology improved and issues around reliability and performance were resolved, voice became data. The IT teams became more comfortable in meeting the needs of their respective enterprise organization. They gave communication as a service which seems to have had a really strong momentum but weaned a little bit. Now seems like a prime time for it to resurge with latency and jitter issues being addressed by vendors. Over the last few years, virtualized voice has really improved greatly and now seems that most vendors do have some flavor of a virtualized, unified communications platform.

In addition to virtualization, the cloud is also playing a role too. There is no doubt that the cloud is a major topic in enterprises around the globe and datacenter industry itself. As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, the cloud is not a silver bullet for technology. You cannot move a whole datacenter into the cloud and call it good. There are a lot of things that have to be considered from application performance to security. Ultimately, cloud does have its place but it has limitations as well. With that said, I still firmly believe that the right solution for most enterprises is some form of a hybrid datacenter or colocation provider with a cloud component.

One of the top applications that makes since moving into the cloud is voice. The cost of on-premise communication equipment is simply not worth the maintenance or management. If you start to look at this and want to determine if it is the right move for your organization, you have to remember if your organization moves to the cloud or a hosted communication provider, it is still critical to fully understand how that place is going to fit in your organization’s overall IT strategy.

This combination of moving voice into a cloud environment is a perfect example of why so many people will turn to 1102 GRAND. As a carrier hotel, we bring together the carriers service providers and the enterprise customer into one place so that they can interconnect in an efficient manner. Enterprise customers can utilize our datacenter infrastructure for the applications not well-suited for the cloud. However, they can still have the ability to connect with tenants of ours who offer cloud services. It is the most bang for the buck and the most customization and control over what they want to do in their organization. Essentially, they get to tailor a solution while reducing capital and operating expenses and simultaneously improve performance and reliability of their overall platform.

For more information visit www.1102grand.com or email questions to info@1102grand.com.

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews IT Cloud Budgets

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews Cloud Computing Technology Strategies

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Kansas City’s Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Data Center Knowledge Article: Go Daddy & The Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Virtualization

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Power Tips

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Kansas City Data Center’s, Darren Bonawitz, Reviews Convergence & Voice in Podcast

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011