As enterprises add computing resources to their growing organisations, electricity costs continue to rise unchecked. This growth in electricity consumption is fuelled in part by the trend towards more powerful computers loaded with more memory, more drives, and more capabilities.

The average PC wastes up to 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year simply by running at full power when no user is present. By implementing an effective power management scheme, however, enterprises can achieve dramatic reductions in electricity costs, leading to a significant reduction in operating overheads.

In addition to costs savings, reducing wasted electricity can yield an environmental benefit that can help organisations comply with many “green initiatives”. Generating the electricity consumed by a typical PC releases almost 160 kg of carbon dioxide – a gas that is a major contributor to global warming – each year. Reducing power usage can directly cut CO2 emissions.

Power management is a process that reduces energy consumption by personal computers (PCs) and monitors by powering them off or switching them into low-power modes when not in active use. While most PCs have energy conservation capabilities including hibernate and shut-down settings, over 80% of users disable their power settings within 90 days, according to research by the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Power management schemes are simple enough to enable and implement on a small set of computers, but the process quickly becomes impractical in enterprise environments where thousands of computers are being managed across a geographically distributed, multi-platform network.

The Power Management solution enables enterprise IT staff to monitor, manage, and control the Power conservation settings of computers and monitors, resulting in annual cost savings from $ 20 to $80 per PC.

Highlights

• Significant reduction in energy costs – Reduce annual energy costs by up to $80 per PC by automatically minimising power consumption when computing resources are sitting idle.
  
  
• Reduction in CO2 emissions – Reduce global warming greenhouse gas production by reducing power consumption across the organisation.
  
  
• Unprecedented real-time visibility – Track power settings, usage, and cost over time through powerful reporting capabilities at both the individual endpoint and aggregate levels.
  
  
• Power management policy enforcement – Ensure that computers are using the appropriate power policies.
  
  
• Distributed Wake-on-LAN capabilities – Remotely wake computers for routine or emergency software deployments, configuration changes, or security measures without in-person intervention or disturbance to end users.
  
  
• Lower total cost of ownership – A single, consolidated console can control and report on up to 200,000 endpoints.

 

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