A new article in Sustainable Business Oregon says new research finds that the greening of data centers will ramp up over the next five years, with companies increasing their investment from $7.5 billion last year to $41.4 billion by 2015. It specifically mentions the new Facebook data center being built in Prineville as well as EasyStreet’s own expansion now underway.
EasyStreet’s Rich Bader is quoted as saying, ”I did the calculations and the electricity we’re saving is equivalent to eight train car loads of coal each year. That gives you a sense of scale.”
Click here to read the entire piece.
Well, not literally. But we did receive a certificate from Portland General Electric recognizing the impact our 100 percent Clean Wind purchase in 2009 has had on the environment. It says:
This year, your actions, including choosing Clean Wind, helped reduce your carbon footprint:
3,107,708 lbs of CO2 offset
which equates to approximately
3,452,243 automobile miles not driven or
186,049 trees planted annually.
Thank you for your commitment to the environment.
Thank you, PGE. I just hope we aren’t responsible for watering those 186,049 trees!
Rather than in May, we have our Bike-to-Work Day when the weather is better.
Today, out of 34 employees, we had 13 bike to work! We hosted a custom-made omelet or blueberry pancake breakfast (made by one of the riders who got here at 5:30am for prep). Here’s the documentary photo!
Left-to-right: Brent Holder, Travis Ogdon, Susan Douglas-Fox, Kathy Zak (chef), Sarah Wetmore (first timer), Lorraine Bessmer, Rich Bader (CEO), Jeff Burlingame, John Beaston, Mikayla Dickinson (first timer), Steve Knipple, Jack Flug and Eric Bourassa.
A recent IDC report on the growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications among the nation’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), contains a checklist of what’s appealing about the new software technology. Seriously, folks, it was as if IDC had lifted our checklist of EasyStreet benefits of infrastructure outsourcing.
Here’s why SaaS appeals to SMBs, according to IDC:
• No or low up-front capital costs. (Ditto for EasyStreet services.)
• Predictable monthly expenses. (Right out of our gamebook.)
• Elimination of expensive maintenance contracts. (Couldn’t have said it better.)
• Access to best-of-breed, enterprise-class services. (Do we hear an echo?)
• Extended customer-support services. (One of our strongest points.)
• Control mechanism similar to that of on-premise systems. (A customer favorite.)
“In addition to general business benefits, SMBs can easily add incremental services with hosted services,” IDC goes on. “In this way, SMBs can adopt a deliberate IT strategy to add capabilities – and just as important, pay for those capabilities – as they need to.”
Just replace the SaaS list with EasyStreet’s offerings and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Yes, we’ve finally joined the social networking era. EasyStreet is officially a twewbie. Hoping all you tweeple will follow EasyStreet at http://twitter.com/estreetonline. BFN.
