Cavern Technologies
Reliable, Innovative and Scalable Data Center Fortress

Data centers have had a significant impact on the virtualization process, making the handling of large amounts of data, easier than ever before. As data centers continue to leverage virtualization technologies, they help improve how enterprises scale their applications and workloads. Consequently, the expected spike in future data demands because of IoT and edge computing, put greater emphasis on the potential role of data centers. Amidst such demands, the data center market is changing in terms of ownership, and underlying technology. Amidst these changes, privacy, security, and scalability are becoming the key considerations for data center site selection. Rising to the occasion is data center colocation specialist Cavern Technologies, who with their unique underground data center facility is offering a host of security benefits, environmental advantages, and business conveniences for high powered enterprise IT applications. The facility, based in Kansas, is completely customized to meet an organization’s current and future needs, with scalability that meets even the most aggressive growth and demand. It is no wonder then that Cavern Technologies is the premier and trusted data center partner for small and large Fortune 1000 companies across the US.

In an interview with John Clune, CEO and Sean Khurana, COO of Cavern Technologies, we gained insights on their company’s capabilities in providing a secure colocation to implement a hybrid-IT strategy for their client’s enterprise business. Clune founded the company as President and owner where he focused on building the company’s core competency of providing state-of-the-art data center solutions and later transitioned to CEO and the lead strategic role. As the COO of Cavern, Khurana oversees daily operations and ongoing development initiatives to maintain and expand the company’s position as a leading data center solutions provider.

Could you give a brief overview of Cavern Technologies?

Cavern Technologies’ next generation data center is the top choice for CIOs and CTOs for a secure colocation that enables the hybrid-IT strategy for their enterprise business. Although a major share of our business comes from Kansas City, we have customers that span across the US. Generally, we serve large enterprise clients working in financial services, healthcare, and technology. We began our journey in 2007 with a couple of customers in the Kansas City area and later we grew our business with 110 customers.

Over the years, we’ve stayed true to our mission of serving with integrity. We employ a team of experts who deliver custom solutions that respond to each client’s unique facility and connectivity needs. Cavern partners with our clients to grow their businesses.

What differentiates Cavern Technologies from its competitors?

We make use of a specialized underground facility, which is 125 feet below the ground. The facility is located in limestone caves that were purposefully excavated for future development. The limestone creates a strong, naturally secure environment for our datacenter colocation facility, which is three times stronger than typical concrete structures. For that reason, we can offer a structurally stable and secure site tolerant to any weather conditions, including tornadoes, and ice storms.

Our data center is built out in two different locations in the underground, spreading out to more than 160,000 square feet. We divide them up into private suites with separate entrances. With that, our clients can create a fully customizable, state-of-the-art private suite for their IT infrastructure. We enhance the security of a private suite through facial recognition. Within the private suite, we have bifurcated the floor space into an office space and data center equipment space. Our facility is cost effective when compared to typical cage type colocation environment. Our real estate cost in the Midwest is lower and we maintain our construction cost at an economically viable point.

What are some of the services that you offer customers?

Network connectivity is a concern for many colocation customers. For that reason, we allow our clients to choose from 11 different carriers that best fits their business needs. We are augmenting our carrier capacity by adding two more carriers. With that, we provide secure and redundant connectivity to our 110 customers. In addition to that, we offer cloud connectivity solutions through a platform called Megaport, which is an Australian company. By partnering with them, we provide cloud connectivity solutions through SDN networks. We also provide ISP solution to our customers, which is a popular solution for our customers that comes with DDoS protection.

What would you say is your calling card in the data center market?

In terms of operational excellence, our focus on infrastructure and operational maintenance provides 100 percent uptime with no outages. Our approach that focuses on system, people, and process allow us to maintain extraordinary levels of operation excellence. We have developed unique standard procedures, emergency procedures, and operating procedures for any special work related to our offerings. As an organization, we understand that the people behind this process are equally important. For that reason, we have hired best-in-class staff capable of maintaining a strict operational code within our company.