NightWatchman
PC Power Management
Accurately monitor, analyze and report on power usage and energy consumption, across the enterprise at a granular, device-by-device level.
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NightWatchman saves millions in energy costs, reduces your carbon footprint and improves the health, lifespan and security of your PC estate.
Does doing the right thing have to cost the earth? With tightening budgets and shrinking margins how can you still achieve your sustainability goals? 1E NightWatchman enables the enterprise to slash power consumption, spend and carbon footprint while actively improving PC health and security. Automated control of PC power usage saves individual enterprises millions in energy bills per year while actively improving security and extending the lifespan of the entire PC estate.
Align your business objectives and your sustainability goals by removing the guesswork around energy consumption.
1E NightWatchman – taking control doesn’t have to cost the earth.
“We introduced NightWatchman as part of our green initiative and we have made more than $77,000 in the first year.”
Get in touch and find out if NightWatchman could save your business money while reducing its carbon footprint
With NightWatchman You Can:
Remotely wake PCs when required increasing the efficiency of out-of-hours patching and rebooting, improving the lifespan, health and security of the IT estate.
Get visibility into PC activity, user activity and energy usage, thereby, enabling the enterprise to retire unused PCs and desk space, which can save organizations over $8,000 per desk on average.
Ensure your computers are safely rebooting when they should be, closing security vulnerabilities as directed by your security team.
Maximize the benefits of the batteries in your laptops and devices, increasing user productivity and satisfaction while getting the most from your hardware budget.
Value Case
For Corporate Sustainability Responsibility
For Corporate Sustainability Responsibility
Responsible companies run efficient and sustainable IT. NightWatchman leads to an immediate reduction in carbon footprint, with which you could take advantage of grants/rebates/tax redemption’s wherever available. Accurate and easily comprehensible power reports enable the enterprise to baseline their existing PC energy consumption to enable the identification and elimination of energy waste. The reports reflect actual PC power consumption by manufacturer/model and collate to actual energy cost from your local energy supplier. NightWatchman subsequently allows you to optimize PC power policies centrally across the entire estate allowing you to see the savings obtained at a granular level over time.
US Department of State
US Department of State’s Efficient IT initiatives ensure a 21,000 tonne reduction of its carbon footprint in a few months thanks to PC power management.
For Finance and facilities
For Finance and facilities
Businesses need to run in an efficient and controlled way to minimize waste and better manage costs. NightWatchman provides the enterprise with total control of power management over the entire PC estate, 24 hours a day, thereby leading to major reductions in the energy costs. NightWatchman’s accurate visibility into usage additionally gives the ability to identify unused PCs and related real estate, so that organizations can repurpose in order to save substantial cost. By reducing energy use and carbon footprint or by simply using a PC power management tool, organizations can benefit from energy rebates/tax redemptions/government grants in various parts of the world.
PC Estate Profiler Report
This paper looks at how NightWatchman enables enterprises to retire unused PCs and desk space, which can save organizations over $8,000 per desk on average through its accurate visibility into usage.
For End-User Security
For End-User Security
NightWatchman provides you with a secure, robust and seamless Wake on LAN facility (certified to Common Criteria (EAL2) & FIPS), without the need for additional servers. NightWatchman comes with the ability to manage the end to end power & patch management lifecycle – including waking up a PC, patching it and putting it back to desired low power mode at any point in time, ensuring that the PC estate is fully patched but additionally operating at a significantly reduced cost.
London Council
London Council reduces energy costs and achieves a fast, efficiency and secure PC management process
For Reduced Energy Consumption
For Reduced Energy Consumption
NightWatchman reduces energy consumption and accurately quantifies and reports energy emission, carbon and cost savings. With NightWatchman, energy savings can be maximized without causing any disruption to the users. Using the PC estate profiler feature of NightWatchman, underutilized / unutilized PC’s can be identified and reallocated/retired. NightWatchman provides you with a secure, robust and seamless Wake on LAN facility, without the need for additional servers.
NightWatchman Product Sheet
NightWatchman provides the enterprise with total control over the entire PC estate, 24 hours a day with unrivaled PC Power and Patch Management.
Why Choose NightWatchman?
Cost Savings
By ensuring unused machines aren’t consuming unused energy, NightWatchman reduces energy spend by an average of $26/PC per annum. Overall, greater visibility into unused PCs and desk space can save organizations over $8,000 per desk on average.
Security/ Control
NightWatchman gives you complete control over end-point devices at a Common Criteria (EAL 2) standard, allowing IT to streamline out-of-hours maintenance and enabling users to collectively wake all machines on a site. The solution lets your enterprise tailor and implement power policies at a granular level.
Productivity
By maximizing battery life and ensuring modern devices are correctly configured, users can better access their devices when needed. NightWatchman gives you the data to identify problems so that they can be quickly corrected.
Visibility
NightWatchman accurately monitors, analyzes and reports on power usage and energy consumption, and does this across the enterprise at a granular, device-by-device level.
Sustainability
NightWatchman’s accurate, easy-to-consume power reports helps to identify and eliminate waste, letting you meet your Corporate Social Responsibility objectives, avoid penalties for power misuse, and take advantage of available rebates.
Maintenance
NightWatchman gives you the ability to remotely wake PCs for out-of-hours patching and rebooting, improving the lifespan, health and security of your IT estate. The fully-scalable solution is also completely extensible and allows custom scripts and/or executables to be targeted at individual PCs, groups of PCs or site-wide.
Resources
NightWatchman Considerations for your ConfigMgr Migration
This document outlines those considerations and best practices that should help to address any challenges that could result from your migration.
