BUMPED! FREE SOFTWARE! Reducing the Cost to Power Workstations, a Discussion on Faronics Power Save
The first five people who drop a comment to this post with their name, email address, and a thought about how they can save power in their computing environment will receive a free copy of Power Save, compliments of Faronics. Thanks to Faronics for graciously donating these five free holiday gifts to our community!
Green computing initiatives in IT has focused heavily on the problems of power overconsumption in the data center. But its the workstations in your network that consume far more power than your servers. Did you know that 1000 workstations can consume nearly $62,000 in power alone if their power consumption isn't managed?
Faronics is a software company probably most known for its tool Deep Freeze. Their newest product, Power Save, can help reduce the overall cost to power workstations by turning them off when they aren't in use. Check out this webcast on Faronics and Power Save to learn more about how managed power configurations can save power and help out Mother Nature.
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I agree that there is more power to save currently on desktops/workstations/laptops, but servers in data centers are growing at a much faster rate than desktops and its not as simple as turning on the power saving features in servers. The EPA and others have focused on Server energy consumption as something that needs to be done now. As examples of the server energy consumption the second life article http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php is interesting. I am all for power management on the desktop having worked on this at Apple and Microsoft. The harder problem in a world with multiple web services are servers.
Posted by: Dave Ohara | December 22, 2007 4:41 PM
I think that the podcast said it all -- it's all free from an IT point of view. It's difficult to figure out who to bring up the point to, because a solution like this generally comes out of IT's budget, but the savings is hard to quantify. In the server room it's sometimes a little easier to guage because it is more isolated. But I think more and more companies will pay attention to these types of savings, because every bit helps -- and $62K / yr is nothing to sneeze at.
Posted by: Russ Jackson | January 3, 2008 1:31 AM