NationalNet to open new Metro Atlanta Data Center
 

ATLANTA, GA ? NationalNet, an Atlanta based hosting and colocation provider, announced today the construction of a new, world class data center in the Northwest Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia. The new facility will be home to the company?s premiere managed hosting and colocation divisions plus will house the newly formed unmanaged dedicated hosting division.

The five year old building, formerly a high security processing and data center facility for one of the largest banks in the Southeast, is now being rebuilt as a high availability, highly efficient, data center. The Design/Build project being completed by Total Site Solutions, of Columbia Maryland, began in January with Phase 1 of the facility slated to open in late July. The initial 35,000 square foot phase will include administrative offices, network operations, and the data center requirements necessary to support NationalNet?s growing customer base. With N+1 redundancy throughout every critical component plus redundant, loop-fed utility power this data center should prove to be a show-piece for NationalNet for many years to come.

?NationalNet is thrilled to announce this expansion despite the tough economic conditions facing our customers and our nation, ?said Tony Morgan, CEO of NationalNet. ?This new data center has the space and configuration to meet the growth needs of our flagship brand of fully managed hosting as well as our rapidly growing colocation division. The new space also allows us to offer a new product: custom designed colocation cages and spaces for enterprise level customers, a category we?ve been eager to offer.?

Bill VanVorst, President of NationalNet added ?In addition to the critical features of the facility, NationalNet will offer customers the choice of network connectivity services on our own blended network, or customers may lease service from any of a number of connectivity providers already at or in the building. Having already set the bar of customer support at its highest level, our new offerings will allow us to cover nearly any customer need.?

About NationalNet

A leader in innovative web hosting solutions, NationalNet is changing the way businesses manage their connectivity. Whether they need full y managed hosting or a custom configured colocation space, NationalNet has solutions that exceed expectations and can fit any budget. NationalNet?s success is built on superior customer service customized to meet the needs of every client. For more information, please visit www.nationalnet.com, call 404-420-7000, or email [email protected].

Congratulation Tony, I know how hard you guys have been working on this, most excellent:thumbsup:thumbsup F.U.B.A.R. is proud to be hosted by National Net:thumbsup

Nice move guys...

Before somebody says "THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICS"....I thought I would get one in.....

http://www.tonymorgan.com/newdc/newdc_sw_corner.jpg


I will try to get some more online soon but I gotta run for a while!

Thanks for the kudos guys!


--T

Congrats Tony. I could throw a rock from my house and almost hit it. lol Welcome to the neighborhood.:)

This thread is sweet in more than one way ;)

Congratulations Tony and crew!

Glad to be a new client, helping you guys grow.

where will the stripper poles be placed? post pics of stripper pole placement!!!!

(Place em by the core routers if possible)

hehehe

What kind of bandwidth will be available in the building? Carriers, line speeds?

looks good!

Congrats Sweet T and NationalNet! We could not be happier hosting with NatNet! Poor Atlanta and Fulton and county, another successful businees departs...

Congrats Tony and the entire Nat Net crew! Quite impressive!!

Congrats buddy!

You going to be able to open the new facility as a Birthday Present to yourself?

Glad to hear everything is on schedule Tony :thumbsup

I look forward to being neighbors with you here in Marietta and also seeing the new facility.

Congrats!

Is this DC going to replace the existing one or an expansion where you'll be operating 2 DC's?
WG

Way to go National Net!

I remember getting a tour of National Net years ago and I remember the security. It was brutal.

Sorry guys but I am just getting back from the new facility (4:39am) as we have been testing everything and getting it ready to put into service. Tonight we failed every critical component at least 10 times each, then we started failing multiple components at the same time and every single time the redundancy worked to perfection. There is something calming about actually seeing the tests with my own two eyes as opposed to when we have taken over someone elses data center and we assumed they knew what they were doing!

I am heading to bed...when I get up I will answer all of your questions.

Good Night!!


--T

Thanks , Yeah T, lets not forget the important things:thumbsup
and I would want to be there for the redundancy testing :Graucho

MY HOUSE! ;)

Of course, we will be offering our own legendary blend of NationalNet Premium Bandwidth to all customers but in addition, we installed 400Gbps of redundant fiber back to 56 Marietta Street (one of the most connected buildings in the SE) on which we will offer a basic cross connect so that customers can contract with any provider in that building for their own bandwidth and will only pay us a small cross connect fee.

The following is a PARTIAL list of providers (due to confidentiality, all providers cannot be listed):

5Linx
-Kancharla
AboveNet
Acredo Technologies
Adrun Media
AGL Networks
Alabama Super Computers
Alltel
American Fiber Systems
Amerimex Communications
Arnall Golden Gregory
AT Conference
Atlanta Broadband
Atlantic Nexus
Capital Internet
Capstone Systems
Cbeyond
Charter Communications, Inc.
Cloud Inc
Cogent Communications
Colo at 55
ColoCube
ColoCrossing
Core180
Cumulus Media
Deltacom
Digital Messaging Solutions
Digital Service Consultants
DoveTel Communications
-SyncGlobal
Education Networks of America
Elitecore Technologies
Emory University
Entex Networks
Epik Communications
FiberLight
FiberTower
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Public Web
Georgia State University
Global Crossing
Global NAPS Realty
Granite Services
Great Access
GRUCom
Hanna & Associates
Highwinds Network Group
Host.net
Hosted Ventures Corporation
Hunt Telecom
Hurricane Electric
HyperCube
i2 Telecom International
ICG Telecom Group
ICI Communications
I-Net Hosting
iNetworks Group
Infinite Conferencing
InLine
-Contact Network
Interclick, Inc.
InterMetro Communications
Internap Network Services
IP Communications
ITC DeltaCom
ITO
KDL Kentucky Data Link
Knology
Level 3 Communications
-Broadwing Communications
-Looking Glass
-Progress Telecom
-Telcove
-Wiltel Communications
LightCore
M1 Global Solutions
Manheim
Mercer University
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative
Millennium Medical Associates
My People
MZIMA Networks
National Net
Network IP
NextG Networks
Northwest Regional Data Center
One Ring Networks
Overgroup Consulting, LLC
Peer 1 Network
Progress Power
Qwest Communications
-OnFiber Communications
Rapid Link
Results Telecom
Roundbox Global
Sago Networks
Secure Computing
Security Associates International
Shelton-Johns Technology Group
Silgate
Skiplink
Smoothstone IP Communications
Sprint Communications
-Nextel Communications
Stealth Communications
Switch & Data
-PAIX
-LayerOne
Tactara
Tata Communications
Telecom Italia
Teleport Communications Atlanta
TeliaSonera
Teliax
The Information Age
The University of Tennessee
The Voice Peering Fabric
TNE Global Telecom
Tower Cloud
Transcom Enhanced Services
Trucall Solutions, Inc.
tw telecom
Unified Arts
University of Florida
University of West Florida
USCarrier
Vaya Solutions
Verizon
-MCI Metro Access
VIA net.works
Vigilant Futures
WBS Connect
Windstream Communications
WV Fiber
XO Communications
Xspedius Management





Thanks. It will actually be opening just before my birthday....we will call it an early birthday present!!



The plan is to migrate everything together under one roof so that all of our customers can take advantage of the newest, most advanced technologies on the market....additionally, we have always felt it was most important to have everything centrally located so that we can offer the high level of customer support that our clients have come to know and love.



Thanks, Richard! We are actually stepping it up even more in the new facility. Our security at the new facility will be SWAT style security, as opposed to an old lady in a white shirt with an iron-on badge. The company we choose will be using military trained officers in fatigues. You will not want to joke around with these guys, I promise ;)

Thanks for the kudos everyone....we are as stoked about this as anything that I have ever been involved with!! I can't wait to show it off to the people who come to The Atlanta Forum....they will get the first peek at the new facility!!


--T

awesome stuff

Congrats guys!

Your building looks nice, and the list of carriers is impressive.

Looks great I can't wait to see it in person! Congrats T.

Thanks, guys! We cant wait to really show it off to everyone soon!!

I am heading back over there now but I will try to get some real pics on soon, I promise.


--T

That building looks just like EDS in Lansing.

SweetT,do you have mail or icq?

Yes sir, KT, you can email me at tony (DOT) morgan (-AT-) nationalnet (DOT) com....or you are always welcome to call my office at 888-4-NATNET (outside the US +1-404-420-7000)

Note: I use spam arrest so if you email me you will need to confirm yourself...but as long as you have been around I am sure you are very familiar with it ;)

I look forward to speaking with you soon!

--T

O.K how does nationalnet support compare to the so called best rackspace where you have your own dedicated team at hand ?

Are we going to get tour of this place when we are at the Atlanta Forum ?

Big kudos goes out to my buddy Andrew, i know this is his baby.

Jay

I have a lot of experience with this because I moved from Rackspace to Natnet after being hosted there for nearly 9 years. I can say that Rackspace's so called fanatical support is nowhere near that of Natnet. I hosted on Rackspace as my primary host for mission critical apps and they completely let me down one Sunday afternoon by opening a ticket to tell me my server is down, how would you like us to proceed. They left it down until I arrived to the office the next morning and made no effort to restore service during that time until I called to yell at them. Even when I called to get service restored it took nearly 4-6 hours to do so. I refused to deal with their bs and was on the phone with Tony that monday and fully hosted on Natnet the same day.

How's that for a testimonial, and I came from the so-called best Rackspace to Natnet ;)
WG

Thanks wired guy i really appreciate your time and effort with a valuable answer, you have persuaded me to give natnet a go over rackspace and save me a few quid at the same time ;-) Once again Thanks !

who the fuck thinks rackspace is the best?

Yes, you will absolutely get a tour of the facility while you are at The Atlanta Forum....I am so looking forward to it!!!

As for Andrew.....well.....you are right....this is his baby....and he has stepped up to the task, too!!! The guy has a team of people to make sure that this thing is perfect, but he is not happy unless he is testing himself.....check this out.....

http://www.tonymorgan.com/newdc/main...witch_gear.jpg

http://www.tonymorgan.com/newdc/maintenance_ats.jpg

I don't know exactly how much power that is, but suffice to say that it is enough to ruin your day.

When he was looking at spending thousands of dollars on that suit I told him he should be able to find a slightly used one with just a small burn on it but he didn't think that was too funny ;)


--T

Thanks, Charles.....as always, thanks for your continued trust and your business....and your friendship, too.

--T

Hey Bigwes....I would love to welcome you to the NatNet Family....we are here for you whenever you are ready. Shoot me some contact information and I will have someone contact you tomorrow!!

--T

Bigwes,

Like Tony said, we'd love to welcome you into the NatNet family, as we have many of the folks on this post, Hell, like many of the folks on this board. I know you won't be disappointed. We look forward to working with you this week to make this happen.

Kevin

Nationalnet sounds good.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

You should see EDS in Texas.

Just spent all night at the new Data Center getting it ready to roll...moved a few servers in....all is well in the world....now to get a few hours of zzzzzs.

http://www.tonymorgan.com/newdc/cab_row.jpg

http://www.tonymorgan.com/newdc/CRAHs.jpg


--T

Congratulations to Natnet and the entire crew.