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Awhile back I picked up on an article around the first eco certified computers from Lenovo. First ECO Certified Computer - Interesting Article

Well the machine was ordered, arrived & hooked up in the lab.

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The next question is, how can we take this ECO-certified computer & match up a Power Management solution to show that we can save $$'s in the "Managed Power" space. This is our next step in the lab.

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Hi all, wanted to follow-up on a recent post from Josh Hilliker about Verdiem and PC power management.

For those of you who don't know us, I'll give you some background on what we do. We have a solution called SURVEYOR (just released v5.0 last month!), which essentially helps companies to save money on their energy bills through allowing IT departments to centrally manage their networked PCs and move them into lower power states when they are not in use. As an additional benefit, companies who use SURVEYOR are able to indirectly reduce the amount of CO~2~ they produce.

We do this through a client-server software model which allows the clients to report time and state data back to the server. In turn, the software will create power profiles for groups of users and then set power policies around those particular groups' usage patterns. For example, User Group A generally works at their machines from 8am to 5pm Monday-Friday. Your IT department could set a policy to have that group of machines go into sleep mode at 5:30 every evening Monday-Friday and wake up again at 7:30 in the morning Monday-Friday. We've also got the tools in place to enable Wake-on-LAN, so your IT department will be able to wake machines on demand and install the necessary patches and updates.

If you're interested in learning more about us, you can always visit --blocked::http://www.verdiem.com/-- or go to --blocked::http://www.greenmypcs.com/-- to get a free green IT kit. You should also check out our Power Alley Blog.

I know this is a lot of information to digest, so I definitely encourage you to respond with any questions/comments you might have.

We're excited to be a part of this community, and look forward to talking with you!

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