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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews 2011 Data Center Hardware Spending: Predicted to Reach $99 Billion

Friday, October 21st, 2011

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

I ran across this article on CIOInsight.com on the prediction that hardware spending will reach $99 billion this year. At 1102 GRAND we are definitely seeing evidence of this spending on a daily basis. We are watching customers moving gear into newly built out collocation rooms within our building, as well as existing customers adding new or upgrading existing equipment. The growth appears to span many different verticals, but web hosting, managed IT service companies, healthcare IT and call centers are definitely the front-runners this year at 1102 GRAND.

Gartner: Data Center Hardware Spending to Hit $99B in 2011

Who says the future of IT is all in software? All software has to run on some sort of processor, physical or virtual, and all those have to run on something you can see and touch. And with the continuing deluge of data pouring into servers and storage arrays, there is no shortage of processors happening anytime soon.

Thus, IT hardware sales are going nowhere but up and to the right. Gartner has some new numbers that back up this trend.

The industry researcher is projecting that worldwide data center hardware spending will reach $98.9 billion by the end of calendar year 2011, up 12.7 percent from $87.8 billion in 2010, according to a report it published Oct. 13. Data center hardware spending is forecast to total $106.4 billion in 2012 and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015.

Data center hardware spending includes servers, storage and enterprise data center networking equipment.

Back to Pre-Downturn Levels
“Worldwide data center hardware spending will finally reach and surpass 2008 levels,” said Jon Hardcastle, research director at Gartner. “Growth in emerging regions particularly Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC countries) is balanced by continued weakness relative to pre-downturn levels in Japan and Western Europe.”

Storage is the main driver for growth, Hardcastle said. “Although only a quarter of data center hardware spending is on storage, almost half of the growth in spending will be from the storage market,” he said.

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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub Features Stallard Technologies, Inc.

Friday, August 6th, 2010

By: Darren Bonawitz

Here is a special feature about Stallard Technologies, Inc. detailing who its client are, how it’s associated with 1102 GRAND and why Kansas City is the place to do business.

Description about the company: Stallard Technologies, Inc. buys and sells new and pre-owned Dell servers, workstations, and storage solutions. Customers can choose from 30 different models at 40% – 60% savings over new equipment. Dell certified technicians re-configure the equipment to your exact specifications and conduct a 20 point inspection of each unit. A FREE one year STI Limited Warranty is included with each system. Save Green, Go Green, Stallard Technologies.

Who are your clients? Stallard Technologies works with small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the US and all around the world. We can ship from one computer part to 2000 Dell servers(Germany) at a time.

How is your company associated with 1102 GRAND? We share many mutual customers by providing the IT hardware that 1102 GRAND host and maintains.

Why are you in Kansas City? The company was started by James Stallard out of his father-in-laws garage in Overland Park, Kansas in January 2003.

What is the best part of doing business in Kansas City? Friendly, hard working people who desire to do things with excellence.

What are the benefits of working in Kansas City? Good place to raise a family and great quality of life.

What are the financial or economic incentives to living in Kansas City or the metro area?Reasonable cost of living and good business opportunities.

Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Features Information Technology Kansas City

Friday, June 25th, 2010

By: Greg Elliott

Information Technology Kansas City (ITKC) offers a valuable service to the Kansas City community, so I would like to take the time to share some details from their website about the organization.

ITKC is a program of the Enterprise Center of Johnson County focused on building a strong IT community within the Kansas City metropolitan area that consists of organizations that provide or use Information Technology.

ITKC offers an array of programs and services that aim to educate, entertain, provide networking opportunities and increase the visibility of local expertise to the Kansas City region. The programs and services include:

Networking events for IT professionals, managers or executives

IT technical and business seminars

Best practices roundtables and discussions

Site tours

Directory of IT service and training providers

ITKC does not cater to only one type of company, but believes small to well-established businesses can benefit from the programs and events it offers. Participants of past events have included engineers, managers, executives and financial and sale professionals.

ITKC’s mission is to energize, unite and nurture the regional Kansas City information technology community. It builds upon the strengths of many companies, small and large‚ to help enable a center of IT excellence in the Midwest. It is the gateway to the IT community and provide a leadership resource for the metro area.

So if you are a KC IT professional and have not checked out ITKC, we encourage you to do so. Actively participating in groups such as this, helps build a strong IT community in Kansas City.

To learn more about ITKC visit www.itkc.org

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Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development, Was Interviewed by Stallard Technologies

Friday, May 28th, 2010

By: Darren Bonawitz

During an interview with Stallard Technologies, a data partner of 1102 GRAND, Greg Elliott reviewed why the company has a working relationship with Stallard Technologies.

“Our main job at 1102 GRAND is to provide a carrier neutral place for providers to connect their networks and to do the behind the scene connections that need to take place in order to make all of those networks work,” said Elliott.

Stallard Technologies is an Internet retailing company based in Overland Park, Kansas. It specializes in buying and selling quality new and used Dell servers and workstations, as well as EqualLogic and EMC storage devices and Cisco network appliances.

At Stallard Technologies, it is your personal shoppers. It works aggressively to find the best available values on business networking hardware, so you can accomplish your networking goals effectively, efficiently and under budget.

It deals strictly with reliable vendors and top quality products, and will make sure that you are getting what you expect, no surprises. It knows the importance of building relationships, and is committed to providing you with the best combination of hardware value and service available anywhere, online or offline!

Stallard Technologies, has its own staff of trained and qualified technicians. It manages complete diagnostic checks on all our products. Performance of products has the Stallard Technologies seal of Approval and Warranty.

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