Steve Carl has been working in the IT industry in a wide variety of roles for three decades. Currently he is Senior Technologist and Green IT Spokesperson for BMC Software, where he has worked for the last 22 years. He works in a wide variety of roles, including data center design and implementation, technology solutions for R&D, Performance and Capacity Planning (including not just traditional performance metrics but also thermal / power performance). He is the author of two customer facing blogs for BMC: “Adventures in Linux”, where he chronicles his work in both data center and desktop Linux use in the Enterprise, and “Green IT”, which covers his work in BMC’s green datacenter efforts. Follow him on Twitter @stevecarl