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Saving Energy Part III - " Verdiem: Nyquil for energy-hog PCs "

josh.hilliker — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:30 GMT

On the quest to find tools that showcase saving energy, $$'s & overall how to optimize your energy bill I ran across this cNET Article titled: Verdiem: Nyquil for energy-hog PCs
Full Details: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9942968-54.html?tag=blog.promos.

I pulled this quote out as it applies to the vPro community.

"Verdiem Surveyor 5.0 has a console to centrally configure different devices and additional reporting tools. It also has better integration with Windows Vista and integrates with Intel's vPro PC management technology so that it can access machines that aren't turned on"

I think this may be a good tool to showcase the quest on "saving energy" that I have been discussing in my last few energy posts. I dug in deeper and found this site - http://www.greenmypcs.com/ in which they have a free download kit of information it looks like - I have to download & check it out.

If you are on this same quest.. let's check it out together & let me know your input on this blog.

Josh

Saving Energy - Part II - ManageFusion Material

josh.hilliker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:21:14 GMT

Back on the topic of Energy, I received a presentation that Rick Maddox (Symantec) reviewed at ManageFusion that explains Energy Wasting Statistics (for example: 60% of PCs are left on overnight). Also:

•Typical PC uses 588 kWh of energy per year
–1,000 lbs of CO2
–2/3 of the energy is wasted
–15 PCs = 1 mid-size car

Wow!. very interesting when you compare to a mid-size car. In this presentation Rick goes on to show how Altiris is making a difference with it's partners as well as showed their Energy Saver toolkit. I have not used this toolkit as of yet, however here is the info page on their site. http://www.altiris.com/Products/EnergySaverToolkit.aspx.

Here's the full presentation:
Rick Maddox - ManageFusion - Green IT

Update on tools, I'm still working to get a set of tools that I can share out or reference from the community around power. I hope to blog about this in the next 1-2 weeks. If you are interested to hear what i'm doing check out my last blog.

Saving Energy ? does it matter?

josh.hilliker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:54:44 GMT

What is interesting is that I spent a few years prior to Intel in the Gas & Electric industry, spending time with customers & internal electric troubleshooters. During this time I spent a few dedicated months talking about saving Kilowatts, how to do it, tips, tricks, tools & breaking bills down to specific pieces of hardware in the house that are good suspects. I remember at this time (early 90's) that we received an update about computers and their impact on the customers bills, and at that moment I was wow'd by the impact. Well, since then things have changed and it feels like for the better, of course even better with vPro and yes I do believe..

So over the next 2 months I'm working on doing a few power tests on vPro to show the value of having a vPro system & what we see in the End user labs that we've setup. If you are as interested as I am let me know, it would be great to run these tests in parallel to see what results we get and the # of kilowatt hours we save collectively.

so how can you let me know? 2 way's..
1. blog me back here with your comments
2. shoot me an email at Josh@Intel.com - Yep. Josh@intel.com

If you think there's no way you can save Kilowatt hours with vPro, let me know that to.. i'm interested in your thougthts, opinion, etc..

Looking forward to comments..