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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub, 1102 GRAND, Hosts 6th Annual Golf Tournament & Networking Event for Technology Companies

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

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

Thank you to all the golfers, sponsors and Deer Creek Golf Club for another successful golf tournament and IT networking event. The competition was fierce yet friendly and great connections were made.

Congratulations to the winners:
1st Place- Bluebird Network: Mike Brigman, Steve Crane, Don Gehringer and Scott Brown
2nd Place- K&W Underground: Rex Schick, Bill Reidy, Scott Plumb and Dwight Davis
3rd Place- Gary Kapperman, George Porta, Wayne Walker and Connie Walker

Longest Drive- Wayne Walker
Longest Putt- Bill Reidy
Closest to the Pin- DJ Good

Thank you again to our tournament sponsors: Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions (RGTS), K&W Underground, Stanger Industries, Lantel, Time Warner Business Class, KNK Telecom, Westhues Electric, Boulevard Brewery, Clayman Promotions, and Centriq IT Training. We couldn’t have done it without your generosity!

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1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center & Internet Hub Announces 6th Annual Golf Tournament & IT Networking Event

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Announces August Technology Entrepreneur Speaker Series in Kansas City

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

Event Date & Location:
Technology Entrepreneur Speaker Series: Crossing the Clean Technology Chasm
August 16th from 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Polsinelli Shughart P.C.
Kansas City, MO
$25 Advance Registration, $30 On-Site Registration

Hear from Patrick J. Piper of QM Power and learn more about managing the risks in an early stage Clean Technology venture. P.J. will share examples from his own background and those of other clean technology entrepreneurs.

Attendees will learn about:
•Leveraging Government contracts for commercial success
•The pros and cons of venture capital
•Commercial and academic partnering
•Building your team
•The outlook for clean technologies and alternative energy

Register Now!

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Kansas City Data Center 1102 GRAND Announces August Technology Event in Kansas City: Smart Communications Summit

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND

EVENT DATE & LOCATION:

Smart Communications Summit 2011
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Kansas City Convention Center
Kansas City, MO

SKC Communications invites IT and technology professionals to a day of show-and-tell and networking with top experts in the Collaboration of Unified Communications industry including Cisco, Polycom, Microsoft, Plantronics and Avaya. Come see how you can make your business work smarter. This event is complimentary, but registration is required. Please register at SKCcom.com/TechSummit

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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

it 02 1102 GRAND, Kansas City Data Center Reviews Data Center Journal Article: What Do All Those Nines Mean?

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.

See the Additional Tools

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InformationWeek.com Announces IT Management Challenges For The Social Security Administration’s Data Center

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Posted By: Darren Bonawitz

I would like to comment on an article from InformationWeek.com, written by Elizabeth Montalbano, highlighting the many IT management challenges facing the Social Security Administration in the near future.

The article is in response to a report by the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General Patrick P. O’Carroll Jr., stating the IT concerns that the Social Security Administration has in the upcoming new year. Montalbano primarily focuses on the SSA’s transition to a new data center from the outdated National Computer Center (NCC). The article also reviews concerns with modernizing business applications and the transition from traditional customer service to web-based.

Click Here to read the full article:

I think it is a safe bet that we all knew that Social Security was in trouble. What I don’t think we realized is that when discussing its collapse, it actually pertained to the physical structure of their data center. Unfortunately, although very scary to consider, the issues and challenges they are facing with regard to their data center infrastructure are not unique. It is not even isolated to the government sector. Many companies are facing similar issues with their existing privately owned and operated data centers albeit at different levels of scale.

Companies need to step back and take a look at the big picture and carefully evaluate all of the options. Just because owning and operating a data center made sense in the past, it does not mean it is the best solution going forward. The requirements of the business itself may have changed and certainly the alternatives available have whether it is collocation, hosted environments, cloud services, or a hybrid solution.

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Thank You to David Twiddy of The Kansas City Business Journal for Featuring Darren Bonawitz, Principal of 1102 GRAND, in a Recent Article

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Thank you David Twiddy, staff writer for the Kansas City Business Journal, for featuring Darren Bonawitz, principal of 1102 GRAND, in recent article: Bonawitz is wired into IT scene. According to the article, networking and personal connections has helped Bonawitz thrive in the data center industry.

It’s a November evening, and the Press Bar and Panini Grill in downtown Kansas City is packed with IT workers, tech entrepreneurs and a smattering of angel investors.

Some are looking for jobs, some are searching for business partners, and others just want to learn more about the depth of local tech companies.

Darren Bonawitz stands near the center of the action, raffling off iPads and flat-screen televisions, thanking the event’s sponsors and then diving back into his favorite activity — introducing people.

As a founder of KCNext, the organization hosting the “happy hour,” Bonawitz long has enjoyed expanding tech…

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1102 GRAND to Co-Host IT Networking Event November 18th

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Posted by: Darren Bonawitz

1102 GRAND is co-hosting an upcoming IT networking event with KCnext. The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 18th at the Press Bar & Panini Grill at Crosstown Station (1522 McGee, Kansas City, MO 64108) from 5 – 8 p.m.

Although this is a casual come and go event, registration is required. Space is very limited (250 people maximum), so don’t wait – register today at http://www.kcnext.com/events.

A special thanks from the KCnext team to Stallard Technologies, the Title Sponsor for the event, as well as our other sponsors so far including the following: Commenco, KC Hub, Level 3 Communications and TeliaSonera. There are still several sponsorship opportunities available. So don’t miss this chance to get your company’s name in front of the 250 of the area’s IT professionals and decision makers! For more information on how to be a sponsor, please visit KCnext.com/events.

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Kansas City Data Center & Internet Hub Hosts Golf Tournament for Technology Companies

Friday, June 18th, 2010

By: Darren Bonawitz

1102 GRAND, Kansas City’s Data Center and Midwestern Internet Hub, hosted its 5th Annual Technology Golf Tournament at Deer Creek Country Club Tuesday, June 8, 2010 from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. The event was organized for technology companies and IT professionals who wanted to reconnect with colleagues and network.

Bill Cameron, Director of Engineering Services at ATNI, and one of many participants said, “”We enjoy the trip from Denver to Kansas City for the golf tournament. We like networking with new people who are leaders in the technology business and who want the industry to grow. The core community we have done business with through 1102 Grand have always be reputable and reliable.”

Rex Schick, owner of K&W Underground, has sponsored many of 1102 GRAND’s events over the years and said, “1102 GRAND does an excellent job connecting the technology community and other related businesses. It helps us stay connected to our current customers and meet new potential customers. We like to show our support by sponsoring events important to this group.”

1102 GRAND is a Midwestern carrier hotel and network neutral collocation facility specifically enhanced with the infrastructure to host and provide services to an array of global network operators including carriers, service providers and enterprise customers who demand highly secure and connected, customized solutions for their core networking equipment. 1102 GRAND offers a wide array of collocation options including cabinets, cage space, suites and space for private data centers, all of which are connected to a carrier neutral Meet Me Room, housing carriers and service providers including AT&T, Level (3), Verizon Business, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communication, and Qwest.

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