Intel Open Port: Intel vPro Expert Center Blog : Tags : kilowatts

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.

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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..