Green IT- Power Management

Securing IT starts by managing IT

Challenges

Organisations looking to implement effective PC infrastructure power savings programs face three hurdles: the limits of voluntary power savings; the difficulty of applying power management policies across distributed infrastructures; and reconciling potential conflicts between power savings and other system management activities.

The Carbon Trust recently revealed that office equipment is the fastest growing energy user in the business world, consuming 15% of the total electricity used in offices. This is expected to rise to 30% by 2020. The cost of running this equipment is around £300million p.a. in the UK alone and around two-thirds of it is attributed to computers (PCs and monitors).

- Limits of voluntary power savings
- Difficulty of enforcing power management policies across distributed infrastructures
- Reconciling potential conflicts between power savings and other system management activities

Green IT- Power Management

Criston Solutions

"Good for the environment, even better for the bottom line"

Desktop Management

Criston uses powerful agent technology to implement power management on client systems. Customers can easily add power management to other services delivered via the Criston Agent and consolidate policies with their overall system management programs.

- Integrates with Criston baseline features
- Creates flexible policies that apply to individual user work styles and organisational needs

At a financial level, IT energy costs can be cut by £15 to £50 per computer and per year by implementing effective power saving features.

Power Management Inventory

- Consolidates current power management settings
- Hardware inventory with power-oriented classification

Power Management Configuration

- Enforces of power management policies with various levels of settings
- Controls settings that reduce power to individual components - e.g. turning off monitors and hard drives, after a defined unused time period.
- Schedules and activates Standby and Hibernation modes for a group of machines
- Shuts down unused computers (i.e. overnight) and schedules of automatic restart (i.e. 5 min before the next expected usage)

End-User Awareness

- Schedules and broadcasts "green" messages, reminders etc…
- Measures and publishes effective usage time against overall power on time