Northstack keeps the systems of round-the-clock Twin Cities companies glowing — logistics fleets at 2 a.m., clinics at dawn, SaaS platforms every hour in between. While the city sleeps, the lights stay on.
Everything below is delivered by the same Minneapolis engineers who answer your calls — tended at every hour, not just the billable ones.
Helpdesk, monitoring, patching, and vendor wrangling — handled quietly at every hour, so your mornings always start clean.
Layered defense built for businesses that never close: identity, endpoint, and detection that doesn't blink at midnight.
Architecture, migration, and cost tuning across Azure and AWS — cloud that runs beautifully while nobody is watching it.
Your tenant kept in quiet order — identity, email security, Teams, and baselines that are tended nightly, never set-and-forgotten.
Backups verified every night under the lights, with rehearsed restore drills — so recovery is a practiced act, not a hope.
vCIO roadmaps and budgets with a horizon line — a clear picture of where your stack should be in one, three, and five years.
Most of the incidents we resolve begin after hours — when warehouses are moving freight, charts are being updated, and deploys are shipping, but nobody is at a desk to notice. The watch runs the whole arc of the night, every night of the year.
Your team signs off; ours signs on. Every open thread, ticket, and maintenance window carries over — nothing is dropped at the shift line.
Patches roll out, backups run and verify, baselines get checked — the heavy lifting happens while the offices are empty.
A sign-in from the wrong hemisphere is challenged and revoked. An anomalous endpoint is isolated for morning review. Quietly handled.
A plain-English digest of the night is in your inbox before your first coffee — what happened, what we did, what's worth a look.
Three Twin Cities teams that run around the clock — and what the watch looks like from their side of it.
Our dispatch floor runs 24/7, and for years IT was the one thing that didn't. Northstack changed that. Overnight issues get fixed overnight — most mornings the only evidence is a line in the dawn report.
We're a clinic network — downtime isn't an inconvenience, it's a patient-care problem. Northstack's watch caught a failing storage array at 2 a.m. and had us failed over before the first appointment. Nobody noticed. That's the point.
As a SaaS company we're technical, but we can't staff a night watch. Northstack is the calm, senior team on the other side of midnight. Fifteen years in, they still feel like the best infrastructure decision we've made.
Every conversation ends with written recommendations you keep — whether or not we ever keep the lights on for you.
A sixty-minute review of your network, identity, and backup posture — with written findings delivered within five business days, yours to keep either way.
Reserve a slotWe map what actually happens to your systems between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. — and show you exactly where nobody is watching today.
Reserve a slotThirty unscripted minutes with a senior engineer. Roadmaps, vendors, a weird problem nobody can explain — bring anything. No deck, no pitch.
Reserve a slotOne conversation is all it takes to learn what your current coverage misses after dark. We'll tell you honestly — even if the answer is very little.
Since 2011 · Minneapolis, MN · Serving the Twin Cities metro