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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Provides Sneak Preview Of New Private Cage Colocation Area

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

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

As 1102 GRAND continues to grow at a rapid pace, I wanted to take a moment to share with you a couple pictures I took of our new private cage colocation area. In this new space we have designed the cages modularly to accommodate different sizes of colocation footprints. Typically there are four 12’x12’ cages, but we can configure the space to a 12’x24’, 12’x36’ or even a 12’x48’ space. This allows us and our clients the flexibility to have the space to expand in a contiguous fashion or to accommodate anticipated growth. There is also a 12’x22’ space available in this area.

This space is similar to our other colocation areas within our SSAE16 Type 2 facility. Clients will find multi-factor security authentication, gas-based fire suppression, N+1 HVAC, UPS and generator supported power feeds, the ability to connect to any of the 30+ carriers/providers in our Meet Me Room, along with a multitude of other features.

In addition to this expansion, we have begun work on two other floors within our building for anticipated colocation/datacenter growth. If you are in the area and want to schedule an appointment for the “GRAND” tour, feel free to email me at Greg@1102Grand.com. I welcome the opportunity to share what we have been building here.

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Reviews: What is a Carrier Hotel?

Friday, February 10th, 2012

By Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

The Kansas City area is an exciting place to be right now. The region is buzzing about innovation, household gigabit fiber and entrepreneurship.

As I’m attending numerous events surrounding these topics, I have noticed a trend in the types of questions and increased interest in data centers, colocation, networks, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, carrier hotels, disaster recovery and the list goes on. So, in the coming months I will work to share with you what I see, hear and learn. If you would like to see a particular topic covered, send me an email at greg@1102grand.com or give me a call at 816-213-7731.

The most common question I have received lately is what is a carrier hotel? (Disclaimer: 1102 GRAND is Kansas City’s carrier hotel and colocation facility.) The simple explanation is that they are facilities almost always found in a downtown area where the fiber is the most dense, close to the ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) and have an abundance of carriers/providers with fiber built into the facility. Typically, carrier hotels are identified by their address and they are found in Tier 1 (sometimes multiple) and Tier 2 cities.

Carrier hotels provide a neutral place for carriers and providers to connect their networks. For example, 1102 GRAND has over 30 ISPs (internet service providers) in our Meet Me Room where all the passive connections occur. With so many possibilities for direct connections to multiple networks, carrier hotels make ideal colocation facilities, or offsite data centers, for businesses of all sizes and government agencies that need access to multiple providers, or have large bandwith appetites. The Meet Me Room’s location within the facility where clients already collocate allows clients to easily change or add network services as their model scales or evolves. Additionally, in most cases, access to a network becomes less expensive at a carrier hotel because the end client has a direct gateway to the ISP’s network. The local loop or access charge goes away or is minimal. Sites such as 1102 GRAND are used as primary/production data centers, backup sites or PoPs (point of presence) on the client’s nationwide or global network.

That is a high level overview of the carrier hotel, but if you want to come check out our facility, give me a call and we will make arrangements.

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KCnext Announces Summer IT Networking Happy Hour

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

Register Now for Summer IT Networking Happy Hour
Thursday, July 28, 2011
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
(Raffles occur at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

Boulevard Brewery, Muehlebach Suite
2501 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64108

The IT Networking Happy Hours provide the unique opportunity to connect with technology industry professionals, exchange innovative ideas and establish beneficial relationships and strategic partnerships to grow your business. The events also promote KC’s assets for the technology sectors and innovators within the industry.

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Join us and 300 professionals from the KC region’s technology community at some of the greatest venues Kansas City has to offer for networking. Enjoy Boulevard beer and raffles for some of the hottest tech gadgets available.

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Thank you to Vertatique.com for Publishing a quote from Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center, in Recent Article: Green ICT and Earth Day

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Thank you to Matt Peterson, writer for vertatique.com, for including a quote from Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s data center, in recent article: Green ICT and Earth Day.

1102green Thank you to Vertatique.com for Publishing a quote from Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, Kansas Citys Data Center, in Recent Article: Green ICT and Earth Day

Kansas City (MO, USA) carrier hotel 1102 GRAND announced that it had “recently implemented Kansas City Power & Light’s (KCP&L’s) Custom Rebate Retrofit Program and projects a Wattage reduction of 53 percent just in time for Earth Day 2011.” 1102 Grand principal Darren Bonawitz emailed these lessons learned. “In our experience, it is always easier to cost justify implementing large scale infrastructure replacements with more eco-friendly options when expanding or replacing equipment at the end of its life cycle. Those projects do not happen every month or year even. In between, commercial companies can take advantage of programs to complete smaller projects that still provide incremental energy savings. A series of smaller projects are often easier to implement and the sum of their energy reduction can be just as significant as a single large scale retrofit.”

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