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| Article: The "Regional" Cloud: A Case Study |
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April 21 2010 - ReadWriteWeb
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A new market segment of cloud provider is developing. |
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| Article: How to Get Buzz for Your Start-up Launch: Write a Book! |
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March 19 2009
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An experienced tech entrepreneur, George Reese, is getting a lot of attention with a new book on "cloud computing." He's the cofounder of a new Minneapolis startup, enStratus, and has been working on his new book for six months. It helps clear the air surrounding a lot of the cloud computing hype. It is an especially useful book for managers in large enterprises who are looking to take advantage of the economic benefits of this form of corporate IT. |
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| Article: What's All This About Moving to the Cloud? |
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March 19 2009
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One Minnesota Entrepreneur Can Tell You How. Developer and entrepreneur, George Reese, is in a position to help clear up a lot of the confusion about cloud computing, especially for enterprises looking to take advantage of its economic benefits. His new book on the subject was released by O'Reilly on April 10. It's entitled Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud. Reese is the CTO and cofounder of cloud computing startup enStratus. This is an interview I conducted with him in late March 2009. |
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| April 23 2012 |
| (Note: this post first appeared at Minnov8.com.) I had the pleasure of attending a workshop event held this past Saturday at the awesome CoCo coworking space at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. It was called SaaSCamp 2012. Note the year is part of that title, because it fully intends to be... ... read more >> |
| April 18 2012 |
| The DEMO 2012 conference kicks off this morning in Santa Clara, California. If you're a regular reader, you know I've covered this event more than a dozen times -- in fact, every single twice-annual DEMO conference in the U.S. since the spring of 2006! But I couldn't be there this... ... read more >> |
| April 09 2012 |
| (This post first appeared April 8, 2012, on Minnov8.com.) Minnesota's annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Richfield, MN, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history.... ... read more >> |
| February 25 2012 |
| What can I say? I'm all over it. Pinning with the best of 'em! You can follow all the action here: www.pinterest.com/graemethickins ... ... read more >> |
| February 18 2012 |
| I read recently an analyst's prediction that social commerce -- of which Facebook commerce is a subset -- would be a $5 billion business by 2015. Does that sound big to you? It didn't to me -- not considering that Forrester says online retail overall will be $279 billion by... ... read more >> |
| January 06 2012 |
| Here's the news announcement, which, though dated Monday, January 9, hit the company's newly launched web site today: CRAM Worldwide is unveiling "Venu," an entertainment game changer, at CES Las Vegas, NV – January 09, 2012 – CRAM Worldwide, LLC., today unveiled Venu, a portable entertainment gateway of mind bending... ... read more >> |
| December 31 2011 |
| As the year comes to a close, I decided to humor myself by taking a look back and choosing my favorite blog posts for 2011. (It's New Year's Eve and I'm home sick, so no partying for me.) Here's the list -- in chronological order, the first one from February,... ... read more >> |
| November 10 2011 |
| It was great to catch my friend Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad and now CTO of Best Buy, this morning at breakfast. It was right before his opening keynote, and he gave me kind of a sneak peak to his talk. We covered a lot of topics, and could... ... read more >> |
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| November 09 2011 |
| This one rocked! Wake up, everybody.... ... read more >> |
| November 09 2011 |
| I had a chance to catch James at breakfast this morning. Could have talked to him for an hour... fascinating guy, prolific writer. Gonna have him autograph his latest book, "I Was Blind But Now I See," which we got in our Defrag swag bag. ... read more >> |
| November 08 2011 |
| Wow, time flies. Seems like only yesterday we gathered in downtown Denver for the first Defrag conference in the fall of 2007. Now I'm about to experience my fifth, and each has been better than the one before. A couple years ago, the venue was switched to the OMNI Interlocken... ... read more >> |
| November 03 2011 |
| 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 announced. Founded in 2009, enStratus... ... read more >> |
| October 30 2011 |
| You've likely heard of the "SXSW Accelerator," which has been a feature for several years at the huge, annual South By Southwest festival, held every March in Austin, Texas. Well, here's something new for 2012: SXSW has announced the creation of a home base for startups, VCs/investors, media, and other... ... read more >> |
| October 07 2011 |
| Several hundred tech lovers crammed into Schulze Hall at the University of St. Thomas in downtown Minneapolis last night and challenged the air conditioning on another day of near-record highs in the state, for the latest edition of the quasi-quarterly Minnedemo event. Luckily, there was plenty of cold beer —... ... read more >> |
| October 06 2011 |
| Yesterday, I stopped into the EduTech Minnesota conference at the U of M. I wanted to catch up with my friends Matt Hardy and Dan Flies, cofounders of Kidblog.org, and hear about the latest with their startup. It turns out, of the 10 startups that were selected to present at... ... read more >> |
| October 06 2011 |
| I felt it. I didn't know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the EduTech MN conference at the University of Minnesota. I was actually... ... read more >> |
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| September 20 2011 |
| Here's what I wrote about these guys on my live blog in real-time, as they presented on-stage... Whodini (Los Altos, CA) definitely gets one of the coolest name awards. Its software automates the discovery of expert coworkers. It plugs into email clients and reduces important emails to core topics, representing... ... read more >> |
| September 20 2011 |
| Apologies for the sound quality on this one. It seems the FlipHD mic is not the greatest for picking up an interviewee three feet away in an open, noisy showfloor like this. (Note: this is my first conference recording with a Flip.) Also, in the middle of the interview, my... ... read more >> |
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| September 18 2011 |
| DEMO draws a global audience. Here's an interview with a visitor from Spain, the CEO/founder of a very successful tech startup, with customers in 45 countries including the U.S., and now looking to establish a presence here. Libelium designs and manufactures hardware technology for the implementation of wireless sensor networks... ... read more >> |
| September 16 2011 |
| The weekend prior to DEMO Fall, the Startup Weekend organization held a "mega" event like none they had ever done before. Sponsored by DEMO, StartupAmerica, Microsoft, and several others, it was held nearby at the Mountain View Microsoft campus. Here's a cool two-minute video that was shown on Day 2... ... read more >> |
| September 16 2011 |
| Really hard to choose favorites out of the 80 great companies that presented. I thought about which ones I'd pick for my top ten, and it turned out to be 15! But all 80 companies were winners, going through the process they did and getting up on that national (global!)... ... read more >> |
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