 Hey there and welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Dean Perrion at JSA and we are coming to you live on location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at Metro Connect 2023 and I'm here with mr. Jim Bowie Jim is the president and CEO of Involta Jim welcome to JSA TV. Thanks Dean glad to be here. It's nice and warm. It's Colorado Yeah, it beats Northwest Indiana where I'm from to I'm not gonna lie about it There was a blizzard right before I was leaving but anyway Jim for our viewers that don't already know Why don't you tell them a little bit about Involta you bet? So we're celebrating our 15th year in business here at Involta. We are a data center company with 12 data centers We build own and operate we have we're building 44,000 fiber miles and Just one of those companies that focuses on enterprises in the secondary and tertiary markets really delivering digital transformation Digital transformation we hear a lot about that and I suspect we're gonna hear a lot more about that as the the world transforms And we're hearing a you know chat gpt. I'm gonna be talking to a bunch of people about about this But that that transformation that's one of the things that people are going I'm not sure I understand that but For this interview. Why don't you tell us a little bit about Some of the the latest coming out of the newsroom over there. I understand that there was some big executive hire too Yeah, so we promoted Carl Gordelick to our chief financial officer really Carl's been in the industry for more than 15 years From the beginning and he is really been instrumental Not only in our debt financing, but and we're celebrating our one-year anniversary with our equity sponsor Carlisle And Carl Gordelick was very instrumental in getting that equity deal done as well with Carlisle So very proud to see him promoted. That's great. That's wonderful And it says a lot about the company too as you're as you are advancing Personnel and stuff like that. So Wonderful speaking of you are in high demand right now I understand that you were speaking on the edge strategies for next generation networks Tomorrow, correct? You're at metric connect. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about that? So for 450 p.m Local time and really just excited like, you know, every edge has been quite a budget It is. Yep, you know and and Volta has been at the edge before it was cool. We should have named the company edge Volta Because we've been in low-label. I know a good branding company But we've been in this game a long time and I think there are some use cases for enterprises that are very interesting both in healthcare and manufacturing as Compute needs to be closer to deliver patient outcomes in the case of healthcare or in manufacturing Really just producing goods better cheaper faster And if you've heard of industry 4.0 in manufacturing or smart manufacturing Really delivering technology to key Key verticals. There's some real stuff there. So I encourage everybody to tune in to that panel We have some great panelists and really discussing what's real and what's really happening on the edge today Yeah, to me that is the definition of transformation when you were talking about patient outcomes and in the real Change that can happen when you get that kind of compute right next to the Literally like changing So very very cool. Why don't you tell us a little bit about what's ahead for in Volta? What can we expect to hear or see from you in the next 12 to 18 months? Yeah? well, I'm excited to announce here a metro connect that we have Dropped our latest version of a new product and it's disaster recovery as a service and Really, we focused on creating differentiating capability of both Reliability and flexibility so our disaster recovery product sits in our tier 3 concurrently maintainable facilities that we build on and operate So that's a big differentiator and then really it's about flexibility when we saw the marketplace For disaster recovery really two things are challenges for people. I think it's the uh flexibility in terms of the services So we have um, if you would like a self guided model If you will for that service or if you need engineering level expertise to actually build the plan Create uh declare disasters So flexibility in that regard and also if anyone who's been in the disaster recovery space knows that clients don't want to Buy it until something bad happens. But what they should know is that I'm going to give you a number per minute Um Downtime can cost you between $900 a minute to $17,000 a minute So if you don't have a disaster recovery plan, you're going out of business So the other flexibility in the product we're launching allows people to step into their disaster recovery plan What I mean by that rather than 100 coverage of all of your mission critical data You can do a 25 to get the most critical 50 percent and 100 percent So you can kind of step into so I think reliability and flexibility I think we're industry leading in what we're doing in disaster. I've never heard that ever This is the first time anyone has ever said we had this tiered approach to uh disaster recovery And that's what it's about for us. It's customers giving customers choice and we feel like we've created a matrix That is really top notch for the industry. No, excellent excellent. Um, I'd love to talk to you more about that That's very very cool. Um, but for our viewers that want to learn more as I do about in bolto Where should they go you bet? www.involta.com awesome. Jim. Thanks for being here. Thanks, Dean. You bet. You bet and thank you viewers for watching jsa tv live We'll see you soon