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August 31, 2009

Faronics Participates in 'Power IT Down Day' to Reinforce Conservation Effort

Faronics, a company that delivers software that helps manage, simplify, and secure multi-user computing environments, reportedly said that it has participated in the ‘Power IT Down Day’ to reinforce its commitment to make IT more energy efficient.
 
Company officials said they are pleased to contribute to the one-day event that encourages individuals in government and industry to be responsible energy consumers by turning off computers, monitors, printers and electronic devices at the end of the business day.
 
Power IT Down Day’ is a marketing/awareness-building event by HP, Intel (News - Alert) and Citrix to promote installing and activating PC power management software that will help companies to reduce energy consumption during off-hours and weekends.
 
It was calculated that on last year’s Power IT Down day more than 2,800 government and industry employees had pledged to power down their computers, printers and monitors when they left their offices for the evening, which resulted in over 37,000 kilowatt-hours saved. And this year nearly 5,600 people signed up to Power IT Down and saved more than 73,000 kilowatt-hours.
 
Faronics (News - Alert) said that it is helping to bring down enterprise IT energy waste with its PC power management software. The company has developed the ‘Power Save’ solution which delivers PC power management that does not interfere with user or IT needs.
 
Power Save keeps computers running when users need them, accurately determines when computers are inactive so they can be powered down, and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports.
 
According to Faronics, Power Save is designed to look at CPU and Disk Utilization thresholds that IT administrators can set so that Power Save will not shut down computers if background jobs such as VPN, remote access, and remote backup are running. IT managers can also allot specific programs that can be exempt from power down if they are running. Managers can also easily make changes to their companies’ PC power management policies with the solution’s ability to schedule Power Save configuration updates on a single, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
 
Previously, Faronics had announced the Windows version of its desktop computer energy management software, Power Save and the company offered an alternative to traditional “blacklist” solutions.

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Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney
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