ETS is currently deploying 1E WakeUp and NightWatchman, across its PC estate ensuring substantial savings throughout the organization and a significant reduction in carbon footprint.  The organization was aware that a large number of their desktop PC users were not turning their PCs off at night. With this in mind, ETS made the decision to initially roll out NightWatchman® and 1E WakeUp™ on 4,000 ETS desktop PCs. Based on initial projections, ETS is expecting to realize over $100,000 in annual energy bill savings.

1E WakeUp™ gives an organization control and visibility of its entire PC estate and ensures that all PCs targeted for software and patch distributions are turned on and ready to receive them, reducing the chance that a PC will miss a vital patch. Built-in Wake-On-LAN functionality enables organizations to update PCs when required, rapidly and with 100% distribution success. Computer Health functionality enables you to monitor and resolve problems, periodically running tests and applying fixes designed to improve availability, reliability and performance. Web WakeUp allows remote users to power on and gain access to their office PCs.

1E NightWatchman® empowers enterprise and small to medium sized businesses to significantly reduce energy costs and impact on the environment by enforcing corporate power schemes. It enhances the power management capabilities of an organization’s computer by providing graceful shutdowns with the ability to save opened files, closing applications safely and then powers down PCs to any state desired from ‘hibernate’ to ‘standby’ and ultimately  ‘shutdown’. It combines this with an effective scheduling system in a single, easy-to-use package. Deploying NightWatchman® across an organizations’ PC estate has been proven to save Dell $36 per PC per year.

Frederick Manno, Business Technology Director at ETS, commented, “ETS is committed to being an environmentally friendly corporate citizen. We selected 1E due to its proven track record in the market. By leveraging 1E WakeUp™ and NightWatchman®, we expect to reduce our carbon emissions and benefit from lower energy bills."

Commenting on the new win, Sumir Karayi, CEO, 1E, said, “If all of the world’s 1 billion PCs were powered down for just one night, it would save enough energy to light up New York City’s Empire State Building – inside and out – for more than 30 years.  That said, it becomes very clear that the issue of PC power management is not singularly an IT department problem; organizations need to educate their workforce and ensure that awareness of this issue filters down to each individual user.  We are delighted to be working with ETS to enable the company to optimize their PC estate in order to reduce IT cost, promote operational efficiencies and foster power savings.”

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