New Boundary Technologies has announced the release of an IT solution that will automatically enforce computer power management. A Green IT Solution, it is expected to make a significant impact on PC and computer monitor power consumption as well as energy costs, thus helping the environment.
A research study has shown that more than 100 million workers in the U.S. regularly use PCs on the job, but according to the U.S. Department of Energy, only 36 percent of workforce PCs are turned off at the end of the workday.
Statistics released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveal that the average PC uses around 700 kilowatt-hours of electricity; more than the average refrigerator.
According to the EPA, these PCs waste approximately 400 kilowatt-hours by running at full power when not in use.
At the organization level, this means that each year, U.S. companies waste an estimated $4 billion powering computers that are not being used. By choosing to proactively manage their PC power consumption, companies can cut PC energy costs by 60 percent or more, or up to $350,000 annually for an organization with 5000 PCs.
The high potential for energy cost savings by implementing proactive PC power management is one of the reasons Gartner (News - Alert) named Green IT as its top strategic technology of 2008, company sources said.
Companies have attempted to implement PC-based power management functions but research indicates that the majority of users will disable them within a few months. In order to implement power management successfully, organizations are now looking at solutions that will not only implement PC power management at the network level but also continuously utilize automation technologies to enforce and maintain power management functions.
“Organizations around the world are realizing that green initiatives not only help the environment by reducing energy waste and emissions, but they help the bottom line by immediately cutting energy costs,” said Tom Diamond, president of New Boundary Technologies. “By automatically enforcing PC power management, our Green IT Solution creates self-monitoring and self-maintaining computing environments that maximize savings with minimal impact on the IT staff.”
The Green IT Solution from New Boundary Technologies is powered by Policy Commander and the company’s unique PwrSmart technology and works by giving centralized control of PC power management to IT departments thus enabling enterprise-wide energy efficiency and cost savings.
The company’s Policy Commander is an automated policy management product while the PwrSmart technology is a solution that deploys intelligent power management policies to every computer that administrators choose to manage.
Official sources said that the solution monitors managed systems and would automatically enforce the selected power management profiles and settings, even if end users try to disable or change approved power management settings.
Founded in 1985, New Boundary Technologies is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is a global provider of IT management and remote monitoring and control solutions that help organizations become more efficient, secure and productive.
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