Tag Archives: EasyStreet

EasyStreet Hires New VP Sales

Posted on by Karen Karger

EasyStreet announces it has hired G. Dean Oswald as vice president, sales. Dean is an experienced executive with expertise in identifying and capturing new business opportunities for high-growth organizations like EasyStreet. His passion, consultative skills and morale-building leadership helps foster the customer-as-partner relationships for which EasyStreet is known.

Prior to joining EasyStreet, Dean successfully developed strategic business relationships and grew revenue as vice president, sales and general manager at MSI Systems Integrators (now Sirius Computer Solutions Inc.). Oswald also led the sales and engineering team for Pacific Northwest Enterprise accounts as regional manager at Cisco Systems. He has held senior positions at Lucent Technologies and AT&T.

Dean holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Information Systems from Boise State University.

EasyStreet hosts visitors from International Sustainability Leadership Project

Posted on by Karen Karger

This afternoon EasyStreet provided an educational tour of our new data center for participants in the International Sustainability Leadership (ISL) Project. Gathering young adults from around the world to explore important sustainability issues, the ISL project event will be held in Beaverton from July 18 to August 5, 2011.

We split the young people touring EasyStreet from the ISL Project into three groups. Above, EasyStreet’s Operations Manager, Jeff Burlingame, talks about the energy-saving innovations in Data Center 2.

Beaverton 4 Business Award

Posted on by Karen Karger

EasyStreet is the proud recipient of a 2011 Beaverton 4 Business™ award from the City of Beaverton. EasyStreet CEO Rich Bader accepted the award at a ceremony during a City Council meeting on June 21, 2011.

Said Jim Rauh, Business Relations for the Office of the Mayor, “A model for emulation, committed to sustainability leadership within the Beaverton business community, EasyStreet Online Services utilizes breakthrough technologies as a means to reduce energy consumption and boost sustainability for the company and its customers. Further, EasyStreet shares what they know with Energy Trust of Oregon and the Oregon Department of Energy so that other data centers around the state might also learn and benefit.”

Shown left to right in the photo are: Wendi Eiland, Chair of the Board, Beaverton Chamber of Commerce, Rich Bader, President & CEO, EasyStreet Online Services, and Denny Doyle, Mayor, City of Beaverton.

New Data Center Open House and “Last Chance” Technology Tour

Posted on by Karen Karger

EasyStreet is proud to announce our new data center has been finished on schedule and the first customers are ready to move in. Please accept our invitation to see the data center and the unique energy-saving technologies we’ve employed before it is closed to the public.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.
9610 SW Sunshine Ct. (Across from our main offices)
Beaverton, OR 97005

Local dignitaries will be on hand to help launch this new data center, which is an archetype for sustainable IT in Oregon. Scheduled speakers include:

  • Denny Doyle, Mayor, City of Beaverton
  • Jim Piro, CEO, Portland General Electric
  •  Bob Repine, Director, Oregon Department of Energy
  • Peter West, Director of Energy Projects, Energy Trust of Oregon
  • Lorie Wigle, General Manager, Eco-Technology Program Office and President, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, Intel Corporation

We hope you will join us and will invite others who have an interest in the latest IT technologies and/or sustainable practices.

RSVP for this special event at http://easystreet.com/openhouse/

According to ETO, ‘Savings are in the Air at EasyStreet’

Posted on by Karen Karger

Thank you, Energy Trust of Oregon, for producing this great case study about EasyStreet’s recent hot/cold aisle containment project. 

 Here’s a quote in the case study from Rich Bader:

“For customers, the biggest advantage of improved airflow is better assurance that we’re creating the right environment for the equipment. For EasyStreet, benefits include happy customers, more capacity and lower power bills.”

Green data centers mean big business

Posted on by Karen Karger

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.

EasyStreet Plants 186,049 Trees

Posted on by Karen Karger

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!

Thirteen EasyStreeters Bike to Work

Posted on by Karen Karger

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.

Somebody Cribbed Our Checklist

Posted on by gregl

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.