Some of you may know we’ve been busy developing a server version of NightWatchman which we call “NightWatchman Server” (if you ever meet me at an event, feel free to ask for an insight into our naming process). We’re all hugely excited about this at 1E, we’re gearing up to launch in October and as Product Manager I’m here to kick off our blog coverage.

I’ve got a list of features next to me which we’ll cover over the next few weeks, but first I’ll set the scene and cover some of the fundamentals.

We considered adding support for servers into our PC Power Management client but treating servers like PCs didn’t make sense to us. In fact Server Power Management requires a new approach for many reasons that I’ll write about another day but core to NightWatchman Server is the concept of “Useful Work”. This answers a very important question, “what value are your servers providing right now?”

With NightWatchman for PC Power Management we built technology to detect if a user is present so we maximize power savings without causing upset. Useful Work in NightWatchman Server extends this so we can detect when a server is being used and whether the workload is considered useful or a waste of energy. That’s incredibly useful information, especially when combined with our reporting of how much energy your servers are using day to day.

More on how this works over the next few weeks but right now there is an opportunity to get directly involved as an Early Adopter where you can experience the software for yourself ahead of our launch in October ’09. Contact info@1e.com for more information!

Andy Hawkins

Read the complete post at http://www.1e.com/bizblog/post/2009/08/12/Introducing-myself-and-NightWatchman-Server.aspx