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 [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
