From left to right: Rich Bader (EasyStreet Online Services), Spencer Moersfelder (Energy Trust of Oregon), John Haas (Intel), Mayor Denny Doyle (City of Beaverton).
On Wednesday, July 7, EasyStreet hosted a media event to celebrate the completion of our hot aisle/cold aisle containment project and to promote our new green data center expansion.
Representatives from Energy Trust of Oregon presented EasyStreet with a $65,000 incentive check for completing the energy efficiency project, which will save over 500,000 kW per year.
Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle was also on hand to congratulate EasyStreet for its contributions to the city’s growth and sustainability initiatives.
John Hass, a Director at Intel’s Eco-Technologies Programs Office and a member of The Green Grid, spoke about PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) as the basis of evaluation for the EPA’s Energy Star for Data Centers Program.
Executives from other organizations who were instrumental in enabling EasyStreet’s sustainability initiatives also participated in the event, including Archinetix, Inc., USI Insurance Services, U.S. Bank, Evergreen Financial, Northwest Bank, the Oregon Department of Energy and Portland General Electric.
We’ll share more information later, but wanted to provide some links to the media coverage we’ve seen so far.
This article appeared on the front page of The Beaverton Valley Times. Sustainable Business Oregon (Portland Business Journal) ran this article.
For the second year in a row, EasyStreet joins 100 other sustainability-minded companies who made Oregon Business Magazine’s “Best Green Companies to Work For” list. EasyStreet reserved a table at the June 1 festivities held this year at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland.
The event keynote speaker, Adam Lane, Ecotrust’s CFO and COO, pointed out that this year’s winners don’t just talk about sustainability as it becomes “little black dress of the business marketing world.” These companies not only talk the talk, they also walk the walk. “These organizations are the real deal,” he says.
Click here for a link to an Oregon Business magazine article about the event.
A link to the complete 100 Best Green Companies to Work For list can be found here.
EasyStreet is proud to announce announced the successful completion of our SAS 70 Type II audit.
Why is this important to EasyStreet customers?
Today, companies need to be assured that their service providers have implemented controls over security, information technology and related business processes. This SAS 70 audit means that an expert CPA firm has evaluated and tested the internal controls governing EasyStreet’s colocation facilities — and has verified that they have operated effectively over time.
Obviously, this is an important accomplishment for EasyStreet, but it also has benefits for companies who choose to co-locate at our data center. By extension, our SAS 70 audit lets you:
- Address compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
- Save the cost of doing your own audits. For example, sharing a copy of the SAS 70 report from EasyStreet with your PCI or CISP provider can often reduce your costs for those audits.
- Ensure your SaaS offering has a strong system of internal controls for safeguarding sensitive data.
- Create a strategic advantage by using a SAS 70 audited provider. (Having an audited data center may be required for you to win clients in certain regulated industries.)
- Trust in the critical components of your IT infrastructure, such as security, redundancy and reliability.
Our President and CEO, Rich Bader, said, “This is a critical milestone in EasyStreet’s evolution. I knew our processes, people and internal controls were sound, and we now have third-party verification to further instill confidence in our services. I’m proud — but not surprised — that we were able to pass on our first audit.”
EasyStreet’s SAS 70 audit was conducted by Linford & Company LLP of Denver, Colorado.
For more information, read EasyStreet’s SAS 70 FAQ page here.
Informative articles about why SAS 70 is important can be found at TechNewsWorld and Online Tech Blog.
A tableful of EasyStreet staffers just returned from a Portland Business Journal luncheon recognizing the state’s Most Admired Companies for 2009. EasyStreet was fortunate to be eighth on the list of ten technology companies so honored. We’d like to congratulate our customers who also received this distinction:
- AKT LLP (Steve Tatone was the top CEO in the Professional Services group.)
- Albina Community Bank
- The Collins Companies
- Ferguson Wellman Capital Management
- Intel Corp. (Named top Technology company.)
- Leatherman Tool Group Inc.,
- Mercy Corps (Named top Nonprofit organization.)
- Miller Nash LLP
- Oregon Health & Science University (Named top Health Care organization.)
- PacTrust
- Reser’s Fine Foods Inc. (Al Reser was the top CEO in the Agriculture and Forest Products group.)
You can click here to read more about this prestigious award and the other fine Oregon companies that achieved it this year.
Bob Heye, a reporter for local ABC channel KATU called earlier this week to ask if EasyStreet could help their viewers learn about the importance of securing their Wi-Fi networks. So after a bit of encouragement from his manager, EasyStreet Tech Extraordinaire, Kenny Payne, came to the rescue. (Along with our other technical staff, Kenny is well versed about all things Internet.)
Below is a picture from one of our many security cameras showing Kenny being taped by the news crew. (Don’t even try to access our secure data center without being caught!)
You can view the entire resulting news story, “Is your wireless network a public porn gateway?,” including Kenny’s words of wisdom, here.
