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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 Shares Reasons KC is an Ideal Location for Data Centers

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

By Greg Elliott, Director of Business Development at 1102 GRAND

In a recent article from the Kansas City Star, “‘Data farms’ draw big tax breaks, incentives from states,” Scott Cannon touches on reasons why the Kansas City area makes an ideal spot for data centers to locate their operations. This is something all of us at 1102 GRAND have been saying for a while.

Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, was interviewed for the article and added that tech businesses want to be located near the “clouds” that store their data. So not only is Kansas City a good location for data centers, but a Kansas City data center is good for the area.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/24/3450585/data-farms-draw-big-tax-breaks.html#storylink=cpy

As legislators continue to make the Kansas City area even more attractive for data centers via additional incentives, here are more reasons to look at Kansas City to locate a primary or backup data center:

Relatively inexpensive power compared to other markets
Reliable power
Geographically centered in the US and used as a fiber hub for many
carriers
Well educated population
Strong economic development groups
Active technology community

Of course there are even more reasons, which you can read more about here:
http://1102grand.com/kansas-city-colocation/

If you have any questions about the Kansas City data center market, feel
free to send me an email at greg@1102grand.com. I would be happy to help
point you in the right direction.

Tags: 1102 GRAND, Darren Bonawitz, data center legislature, data center location, Kansas City, Kansas City data center, Kansas City data centers, Kansas City datacenter, Kansas City Star, Scott Canon
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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.

Tags: 1102 GRAND, carrier hotel, carrier hotels, colocation, disaster recovery, gigabit fiber, Kansas City carrier hotel, Kansas City colocation, Kansas City Colocation Facility, Kansas City data center, private cloud, public cloud
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Thank You Processor Magazine For Interviewing Greg Elliott, Business Development Director At 1102 GRAND, About How to Select The Right Colocation Provider

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Thank you Processor Magazine for interviewing Greg Elliott, business development director at 1102 GRAND, about how to properly select the right collocation provider.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

1. Checking the redundancy level in place for HVAC, UPSes, PDus and other components

2. Requesting incident logs, maintenance records, etc.

3. Inquiring about what programs and contracts are in place for the data center infrastructure

To learn more about 1102 GRAND’s services, including colocation, call Greg at (816) 471-7872.

Read the article: Choose A Colocation Provider: Areas To Address When Narrowing The Field

Getting it right the first time is crucial when selecting a colocation provider, says Darin Stahl, Info-Tech Research Group lead analyst. For example, SMEs that move equipment into a provider’s space only to have to switch providers shortly after due to lack of foresight will pay a heavy price. “When you get into a colocation, switching costs are enormous,” he says. “This isn’t like buying a bunch of photocopiers, being unhappy with them, and putting them to the curb and getting new Xeroxes in. It’s a big deal to go through switching.” To find a good fit with a colocation provider, consider the following.

✔Acquire Enough Power & Space
Power and space are among the most important factors when judging providers. Where space is concerned, Clive Longbottom, service director of business process facilitation at Quocirca, says to ask yourself what you’re trying to accomplish, whether it’s to move existing or new workloads out of the data center or phase the data center out completely. If you expect to need additional physical space later, he says, get enough initially or negotiate with the provider to leave space around your area to avoid a forklift move from one part of the facility to another. This may cost more upfront, he says, but it will have less impact on the business later.

Greg Elliott, director of business development at 1102 Grand (www.1102grand.com), says checking the redundancy level in place for HVAC, UPSes, PDUs, and other components is also vital. “Not having enough redundancy for your organization’s particular requirements could be catastrophic if there was an outage,” he says; conversely, “paying for too much redundancy is likely to cause an organization to overpay for their colocation presence,” he says. Elliott advises requesting incident logs, maintenance records, etc., to determine how well the facility is run. “Based on meetings and facility tours I have been part of, people rarely inquire about what preventative maintenance programs and contracts are in place for the data center infrastructure,” he says.

As for power, Stahl says pricing is increasingly becoming variable. “It used to be I could go in and get a rack and I would know that for $340 a month or whatever the flat fee was, I had A-side, B-side power and this much commit,” he says. “Increasingly, though, vendors are enacting power-variation pricing clauses as frequently as quarterly to say, ‘Look, if I get a price increase from my supplier, I’m going to pass this on to you anywhere from 4 to 10%, and I’ll do that on a quarterly basis.’” In such cases, Stahl says obtaining fullmetered pricing can mean paying less.

Tags: Co-location, co-location services, collocation, Colo, Greg Elliott, Kansas City data center, Midwest data center, Processor Magazine
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1102 GRAND, Kansas City Data Center Reviews Data Center Journal Article: What Do All Those Nines Mean?

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

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We get this question a lot from prospective customers so I thought I would post this datacenterjournal.com. article, “What Do All Those Nines Mean? In short, don’t base your collocation decision purely on one criteria. The decision on where to collocate or how to design your data center is so much more complicated than that. The same thing goes with the Tier I – IV structure as these inflexible terms are just good for broad comparisons and don’t ever tell the whole story. One facility that can claim 99.99% uptime is not the same as another although many people think that is what it means. Likewise, there are Tier II data centers that are a better fit than some Tier IIIs for some companies. At the end of the day, your business should opt for a collocation environment that is right-sized for not only your uptime and reliability (not all businesses are the same) and your budget.

According to the article, “High availability is critical to many modern IT infrastructures, but the most common means of measuring it—percent availability, or by the “nines”—can be misleading. Availability is often listed as some collection of nines: 99.9% (three nines), 99.9% (four nines) and 99.999% (five nines). Each corresponds to the percentage of time that an IT infrastructure is available: three nines corresponds to about 8.76 hours of downtime a year, four nines corresponds to only about 53 minutes of downtime a year and five nines corresponds to about 5 minutes of downtime a year.”

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1102 GRAND, Kansas City Colocation Facility, Reviews Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

According to an article from computerworld.com, there are some indispensable tools you can get from third parties, open-source providers or even IT colleagues with some extra time to develop apps.

Here’s a wide assortment of tools to choose from and the reasons why data center managers recommend them.

1. Cacti

What is it? The most recommended tool on our list, Cacti, provides real-time graphing and visual cues about the health of a data center. Cacti’s front end ties into the open-source monitoring tool RRDtool, which in turn collects data from SQL servers and other components. All the data collected via Cacti is stored in a MySQL database. This setup helps managers monitor performance, server load, temperature and other variables. Its tree structure lets you build reports for specific users.

Who needs it? Data center managers can use Cacti to check server load levels and network performance. For example, IT staffers might use the tool to check the metrics of a specific network switch.

How much does it cost? As with most open-source tools, there is no direct cost for purchasing or using Cacti in the data center, but support and maintenance costs can match those for commercial applications.

Why is it better than the competition? One of the main differentiators with Cacti is that, as with most open-source software, you can find existing scripts and check in with other users about how they use the tool. Cacti also supports benchmark reporting for multiple users.

What are its limitations? As with most open-source tools, you are mostly on your own when it comes to support. And the tool only works in specific scenarios: those data centers running RRDtool with a SQL database. Cacti may be limited in terms of accessing some proprietary server and network architectures.

What do customers say? “We utilize Cacti so we can identify areas to increase efficiency for everything from network paths to power usage to the temperature and humidity of the facility,” says Frank Bieser, vice president and CFO of Core NAP, a colocation data center provider in Austin.

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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 David Day at ithinkbigger.com for Featuring Darren Bonawitz’s Guest Column: Google Opens Door for Innovation In KC

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

Thank you to David Day at ithinkbigger.com for featuring Darren Bonawitz’s Guest Column: Google Opens Door for Innovation In KC.

GOOGLE OPENS DOOR FOR INNOVATION IN KC

Fiber network is likely to boost business and job growth in metro area.

By Darren Bonawitz
After Google Fiber announced that it will deploy a one gigabit-per-second fiber network in both Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., I have been asked on several occasions what this will mean to the area’s technology community and the future of Kansas City as a whole.

New Businesses and Jobs

A key area of immediate or near-term impact is likely to be job growth in Kansas City. As others have pointed out, the fiber build itself is not where the jobs are going to be created. Instead, we will likely see an uptick with regard to employment opportunities across three areas: companies relocating to Kansas City, existing companies and new ventures.

Google’s commitment to invest in Kansas City should trigger increased interest among companies from outside the market in their site selection process. This means new job opportunities for the community, including the technology sector. The good news for these companies considering Kansas City is that the market has a strong talent pool to draw from, with not only the desired technical proficiencies, but also a strong Midwestern work ethic.

Existing companies that have already made an investment in Kansas City also are likely to benefit from being able to tap into the Google Fiber high-speed network. As these existing companies continue to grow and expand, new job opportunities will be one of the inherent benefits.

In addition, with Google Fiber literally in some of our backyards and the bandwidth handcuffs largely removed, there should be new ideas spawned by being able to plug into a test network of this scale. Unlocking bandwidth bottlenecks simultaneously knocks down innovation barriers. If the infrastructure is available, history has shown that the applications to leverage the fiber network will follow. For those motivated and drawn to innovation, there is a terrific opportunity.

Beyond Job Creation

I firmly believe Google Fiber will have positive effects on the technology community beyond job creation. Today, Kansas City has an array of active yet loosely affiliated technical user groups, and the Google Fiber project presents a perfect opportunity for collaboration and cross pollination among these membership bases. At the end of the day, people drive business, not technology. Intelligent and forward-thinking people who know how to leverage technology are the catalyst for innovation, and a strong technology community is also imperative for attracting and retaining top technical talent.

The bottom line is that Kansas City has a unique opportunity to leverage these fiber assets and simultaneously establish the region as a top technology hub.

This story is only beginning and the rest is dependent on our ability to innovate while continuing to strengthen the human, corporate, organizational and physical assets already part of our community. In order to be successful, this is going to require a collective effort from the government and private sectors, and from companies and individuals alike. Kansas City had the passion to attract Google here, but now is when the real work begins and the community validates Google’s decision by making the most of the opportunity.

Darren Bonawitz is principal of 1102 GRAND, which provides co-location and interconnection services for a diverse customer base ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. (816) 471-7872// darrenb@1102grand.com

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Thank you to Kansas City Business Journal for Interviewing Darren Bonawitz, Principal of 1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center, in Recent Article: Google Fiber Lured to Kansas City, Mo., with Existing Web Connections

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

Thank you to Kansas City Business Journal for interviewing Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, in recent article: Google Fiber Lured to Kansas City, Mo., with Existing Web connections.

Kansas City’s existing Internet connection hub and exchange activity played a crucial role in landing the Google Inc. deal for both sides of the state line.

On May 17, Google announced that it would extend its ultra-high-speed Internet service from Kansas City, Kan., to Kansas City, Mo.

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Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Google Ultra-High-Speed Fiber Network Extending to Kansas City, Missouri

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

1102 GRAND would like to congratulate Kansas City, Mo. for being selected “to collaborate with Google on the deployment of Google’s one-gigabit-per-second, ultra-high speed, fiber-to-the-home broadband network.” 1102 GRAND is extremely excited about Google’s extended investment in the Kansas City area.

According to an article from kcmonitor.com, “As the second city to be selected for this initiative, Kansas City, Mo., joins its sister city, Kansas City, Kan., in a regional partnership that will help to ensure our communities’ shared success.

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

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Shares Reasons KC is an Ideal Location for Data Centers

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

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

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Thank You Processor Magazine For Interviewing Greg Elliott, Business Development Director At 1102 GRAND, About How to Select The Right Colocation Provider

Friday, January 6th, 2012

1102 GRAND, Kansas City Data Center Reviews Data Center Journal Article: What Do All Those Nines Mean?

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

1102 GRAND, Kansas City Colocation Facility, Reviews Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

1. Cacti

KCnext Announces Summer IT Networking Happy Hour

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Thank you to David Day at ithinkbigger.com for Featuring Darren Bonawitz’s Guest Column: Google Opens Door for Innovation In KC

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Thank you to Kansas City Business Journal for Interviewing Darren Bonawitz, Principal of 1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center, in Recent Article: Google Fiber Lured to Kansas City, Mo., with Existing Web Connections

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Kansas City Data Center, 1102 GRAND, Reviews Google Ultra-High-Speed Fiber Network Extending to Kansas City, Missouri

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011