Colocation America- Ask Me Anything
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What about facility to facility connections? Say you want to build a network that is geographically disparate. What kinds of site to site connection options do you offer? Do you just use VPN between sites? This is between different Colo America facilities, I mean.
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@scottalanmiller said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
What about facility to facility connections? Say you want to build a network that is geographically disparate. What kinds of site to site connection options do you offer? Do you just use VPN between sites? This is between different Colo America facilities, I mean.
Yep--it's just VPN between the facilities.
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We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.
The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!
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We always welcome everyone to check us out on social media too! We're @colocationusa on Twitter and Instagram, and Colocation America on FB and LinkedIn. Either way, you'll find us.
...OR WE'LL FIND YOU.
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@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.
The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!
Very cool.
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@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.
The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!
That's amazing that it increased so much this year!
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@scottalanmiller said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.
The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!
Very cool.
An applicant for the STEM Grant takes elementary school kids to an indoor skydiving facility, let's them do participate, and then teaches them the physics behind everything.
Seeing all of these programs and what they offer is amazing. I'm so jealous that all I got to do was dissect a frog.
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@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.
The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!
That's amazing that it increased so much this year!
It really is, but all that credit goes to @SamieWalters who has been busting her ass on this. I feel for her having to read all those grants, but it's a great problem to have
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I'd like to acknowledge the "Anything" part of the AMA.
Ask me literally any questions about anything, even if it isn't related to colo or data centers, and I'll do my best to answer it.
I'd rather fight 100 duck-sized horses than 1 horse-sized duck, for instance.
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Favorite part of MangoCon 2016?
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@ChrisL How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, assuming that the wood is locally sourced and sustainably harvested in a cruelty free manner?
(apparently Opera browser thinks "sustainably" is not a word...)
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@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
Favorite part of MangoCon 2016?
Meeting everyone and getting to put faces to handles.
Least favorite part: being abruptly woken up at 3 a.m. with a camera in my face and a room full of people.
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@RojoLoco said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@ChrisL How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, assuming that the wood is locally sourced and sustainably harvested in a cruelty free manner?
(apparently Opera browser thinks "sustainably" is not a word...)
Depends on the amount of wood in the environment and whether sourcing said wood would affect local indigenous fawna and their habitats. But definitely enough to build a dam.
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@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
Favorite part of MangoCon 2016?
Meeting everyone and getting to put faces to handles.
Least favorite part: being abruptly woken up at 3 a.m. with a camera in my face and a room full of people.
HA HAHA I forgot about that part
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@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
Favorite part of MangoCon 2016?
Meeting everyone and getting to put faces to handles.
Least favorite part: being abruptly woken up at 3 a.m. with a camera in my face and a room full of people.
HA HAHA I forgot about that part
It could always be worse... It could have been a fire alarm! Oh... wait...
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Are you guys already on (or looking to expand) to the East Coast and such? Other Countries on the road map yet?
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@dafyre said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
Are you guys already on (or looking to expand) to the East Coast and such? Other Countries on the road map yet?
We have facilities in NY/NJ/BOS/MIA and more. We'd love to expand into other countries, though.
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@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@RojoLoco said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
@ChrisL How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, assuming that the wood is locally sourced and sustainably harvested in a cruelty free manner?
(apparently Opera browser thinks "sustainably" is not a word...)
Depends on the amount of wood in the environment and whether sourcing said wood would affect local indigenous fawna and their habitats. But definitely enough to build a dam.
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Thanks for coming out, @colocationamerica !
@ChrisL -- you guys should totally broadcast the Please-Don't-Sue-Us Jenga game challenges!
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@dafyre said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:
Thanks for coming out, @colocationamerica !
@ChrisL -- you guys should totally broadcast the Please-Don't-Sue-Us Jenga game challenges!
Hell yeah if we can set up a live stream somehow, that'd be amazing.
