Cost savings as a result of PC Power Management can be significant. According to a March 2009 Gartner report, businesses that implement PC Power Management can expect a positive ROI within 18 months.
“Our new FAQ tool has opened eyes. Many companies hadn’t realized that bottom-line cost savings were so close at hand,” says Peter Taylor, New Star Energy Services’ Vice President of Consulting Services.
PC operating systems have incorporated power management functionality for years. Historically low U.S. energy costs and limited capabilities, however, have stunted power management adoption. Power management had been most compelling only to those mobile computing users who sought to tease out precious extra minutes of battery life. The world, however, has changed.
With the 2009 release of the Sentilla Energy Manager for Data Centers, Sentilla analyzes power use directly at each piece of equipment in a data center, including servers and storage systems. Through standard web interfaces, energy consumption is tracked and analyzed in real time. This cutting-edge solution enables managers and IT staff to better measure [...]
Faronics Power Save delivers PC power management that does not interfere with user or IT needs. Power Save keeps computers running when users need them, accurately determines when computers are inactive so they can be powered down, and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports.
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