Overview
Save Energy
For businesses, increasing their 'Green' and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) credentials has moved from being a 'fringe' idea to become more about hard-headed business pragmatism.
'Go Green'
Today, no large organization can afford to ignore rising energy costs, or its contribution to climate change. Enterprises face ever increasing pressures to 'go green' and reduce power consumption.
Reduce energy costs and 'go green'
NightWatchman® enables businesses to save power and make huge savings on their energy bills. It quickly enhances the environmental credentials of private and public sector organizations, whilst improving operational efficiency.
With the NightWatchman® power management solution from 1E, companies can save more than $36 / £26 per PC per year and dramatically reduce CO2 emissions.
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PC power management
The NightWatchman software solution from 1E addresses the challenge of powering down PCs in a large network where users require different settings for working and out-of-office hours.
NightWatchman uses extremely reliable and proven technology to enable centralized, scheduled power down of PCs. It allows organizations to enforce corporate energy saving schemes.
Inexpensive automated PC power-down tool
At a low cost per PC/license, NightWatchman saves a proven average of $36 / £26 per PC per annum. With a typical ROI of less than 3 months, NightWatchman delivers significant benefits fast.
Key features and benefits include:
- Reduces bottom-line energy costs, saves energy and reduces CO2 emissions
- Automatically powers down PCs according to a centrally controlled policy
- Protects unsaved user data prior to shutdown
- Provides fast, detailed reporting on current and potential future savings
- Schedules daily, immediate or one-off shutdowns
- Centrally controllable using any systems management tool
- Minimizes the window of opportunity for virus infiltration
- Easily installable lightweight desktop client
Visibility and control
If a business cannot monitor how much power its PC base is using, it cannot see how much power it can save.
NightWatchman empowers total visibility and control of current and future potential power usage. It produces reports that directly measure PC energy consumption and costs, and can predict savings based on applying different energy consumption policies.
New features of NightWatchman 5.5 include:
- Sleepless Client Detection - NightWatchman can now achieve even greater power savings by detecting PCs which do not go to sleep when they should. The Administrator is made aware of what is keeping the machine awake and given the opportunity to allow or disallow this from happening in future.
- NightWatchman Console - You can now manage your NightWatchman clients from a centralized secure administration console, providing the simplest mechanism and most control over your NightWatchman installation. Existing methods to manage NightWatchman clients (such as Microsoft Configuration Manager or Group Policy) still work and can be used with or without this new console.
- Maintenance Windows and Alarm Clock - You can now configure PCs to power up according to a schedule which suits both your users and administration needs. With Maintenance Windows your PCs will wake up and remain powered for a length of time before returning to a low power state when scheduled maintenance tasks are complete.
- Keep Active - Extend PC Power Management to PC users, allowing them to ensure their PC remains available to execute tasks while they’re away.
- Active Directory Import Tool - Simplifies and speeds up the task of mapping an existing directory of PCs to the NightWatchman configuration and reporting structure. This wizard based tool deals with conflict detection and resolution and the included import scripts can be modified to best suit your environment.
NightWatchman as part of the 1E Patch Management Pack is currently helping to save Vision Service Plan $145,000 each year with a network of just over 2,000 PCs.