News broke today about the founding of a new venture capital firm composed mainly of Minnesota names, including partners from a VC firm with a name familiar to many here in Minnesota that is now being retired. Four Minnesotans, plus a transplanted one, form the core of the … [Read more...]
Robert Stephens Rocks the #DefragCon Crowd

The 5th Annual Defrag Conference was held November 8-10. 2011, in Denver, and I was there once again reporting on all the action during this much heralded meeting of the Internet's big minds. One of the highlights this time for me was the keynote on the final day by Robert … [Read more...]
enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment

An SEC filing reported by MarketBrief has revealed that Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks has raised $3.5 million in venture capital. The total size of the round is $4.5 million, a reliable source told me, but the investor for the additional $1 million has not yet been … [Read more...]
George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later

(Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the writer's personal blog, Tech~Surf~Blog.) The major Amazon Web Services outage that began this past Thursday morning was unlike anything before it. Countless AWS customers, big and small, went down, many for days. … [Read more...]
Andy Morgan Leaving Internet Broadcasting to Join Godengo as CTO
A longtime local technology infrastructure guru and head of development at one of Minnesota's largest Internet firms has joined an emerging Bay Area startup -- but will continue to live in the Twin Cities. Godengo Inc. today announced that Andy Morgan is joining the firm as … [Read more...]

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