[PLUG] Easystreet, sustainability, open source

Keith Lofstrom keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Sat Aug 3 19:28:54 UTC 2013


One of the speakers at the IEEE Sustainability Conference was
Steve Knipple, CTO and VP of engineering at colo and cloud
provider Easystreet, headquartered in Beaverton.  He told us
about Easystreet's successes in energy efficiency.  Last time
I looked, Easystreet was mostly a co-location hotel;  that is
now 10% of their business, and most of their new and existing
customers have migrated to virtualization ( aka "the cloud").
They use xen, openstack, and vmware.

Steve said they are on the lookout for software technicians
familiar with Openstack, with enough coding capability to fix
things.  They get resumes from a lot of tape monkeys, and a
lot of world class developers;  they need capable folks with
intermediate capabilities, who can help customers integrate
with the systems and tweak the apps to make this easier, as
well as implement apps for efficient energy management.  

Easystreet is in Southeast Beaverton, with limited bus service
down Arctic Drive near their headquarters, and close to
Beaverton's 5th Avenue bike path, a nice route to the
Beaverton Transit Center and MAX.  The 56 bus on Scholls
Ferry Road is a 10 minute walk away.

Steve is willing to give a talk to PLUG about their operations
and their sustainability efforts.  Michael, I can give you 
contact info.

Keith

P.S. I have an agenda here.  Besides making sure all my buddies
are gainfully employed, if the local open source community becomes
Easystreet's principal source of employees and collaboration,
and Easystreet becomes super-successful as a result,
Open Source Bridge and Barcamp get a new platinum sponsor.

-- 
Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com         Voice (503)-520-1993



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