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Green Planet - Practical Power Management

Did you know that 10,000 PCs left on during
non-work hours on average consume 2.5 million kWh, emit 1850 tons of CO2 and cost $262,800 annually?

 

Enterprises implementing PC power management are faced with the following challenges:

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  • Enterprises cannot identify PC energy wastage
  • IT needs the PC's on for software updates and distribution
  • End-users are apprehensive about PC's being switched off
  • Administrators do not have visibility on PC usage behavior

The Green PlanetTM extension builds upon Adaptiva Companion's PC power and configuration management abilities to facilitate a collaborative approach to real world power management. Green Planet helps to:

  • Identify PC energy conservation opportunities and harvest energy
  • Collaborate with end-users to establish optimal power policies as per the user's PC usage
  • Adopt: Heighten end-user awareness, Increase visibility on end-user behavior
  • Save approximately $75 per PC annually
  • Report on actual savings and positive environmental impact in aggregate and by business unit

Features and Benefits

Integration and deployment

  • Tightly integrated with ConfigMgr. Work from within the MMC.
  • Easy to deploy: Point and click deployment. No dependencies.

Identify and harvest power saving opportunities

Green Planet can help identify idle energy on a group or location basis enabling you to harvest maximum energy and cost savings. It does so by identifying:

  • Keyboard and mouse activity, RDP and terminal sessions
  • File share access, ConfigMgr activity, critical applications
A PC left on without any of the above activities represents a power saving opportunity.


Collaborate to establish optimal policies

Power management governance
Policies can range from rigid to flexible, suiting unique needs. Administrators can set blanket polices or suggest policies, allowing user modification within established limits.

Click to enlarge: Power Options Click to enlarge: User specific schedule

Visibility on end-user behavior: End users can configure the following within allowed limits.

  • Power options setting during work hours
  • Power options settings post work hours
  • Daily work schedule
  • Custom vacation schedule
  • Wake computer for start of work
  • Automatically turn computer off after work
  • Action to be taken on pressing the power button e.g. hibernate

Real-time policy updates: Power policy updates to a PC or a collection occur in real-time.

No loss in end-user productivity because of a blanket shutdown.

Power management adoption

Increased end-user awareness
Client interface provides information on PC uptime, PC power states, wasted energy, cost saving potential, CO2 emission.

Increased end-user participation

  • Opt-in and out of power savings during work or non-work hours
  • Configure custom policy as per their work patterns
  • Edit application exception list, PC will not shutdown if these applications are running
  • Defer shutdown or choose from power states made available by administrator
  • Wake computer for start of work
  • Data is automatically saved before shutdown

Save energy and money

Centrally power down PCs, on schedule or instantly, to any state desired - Power off, hibernate, sleep, log off, restart or lock.

Detailed web reporting

Reporting metrics can be collected on an hourly or daily basis.
  • Extendable, schema published
  • Power saving opportunities across groups and locations, usage baseline
  • Actual energy usage, CO2 and kWh reduction and cost savings per machine, group or location
  • Comparison across machines, groups and locations
  • Applications causing insomnia


Companion + Green Planet Demo

Adaptiva Green Planet on Vimeo.

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