November 2010 - Posts

• PC Power Management with All Power to the User (Part 2)

  So in Part 1 I looked at the different type of NightWatchman shutdown – Passive, Active and Forced, but what happens next in the process? Supposing the user has simply gone home for the day, without logging off, or even … Continue reading →... Posted Nov 30 2010, 02:23 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, Green IT, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman, document save

• Find 1E NYC on Google Local

  Just a quick post. I thought this was neat and just wanted to share how Google is providing local “home pages” for their Maps technology. You can now find us on Google Maps, which provides quite a bit more information … Continue reading →... Posted Nov 29 2010, 03:08 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Musings

• PC Power Management with All Power to the User (Part 1)

  One of the most powerful barriers to implementing PC Power Management in the workplace is the perceived effect on the user. After all, those desktops don’t exist for the benefit of anyone other than the person using it, and … Continue reading... Posted Nov 26 2010, 04:50 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News

• Happy Thanksgiving and all that..

  Once a year I wake up to an emptyish inbox and it take me a few minutes to realize that it’s not a global campaign of “nobody talk to that farmer Phil today” but yet another Thanksgiving. Eerily quiet … Continue reading → Read More... Posted Nov 25 2010, 06:06 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News

• Unlocking the Potential of IT Efficiency – Not to be missed!

  Discover how to unlock the potential of IT efficiency in your organization with Forrester Research Analyst, Doug Washburn and 1E customer, Dell Inc. in this live interactive webinar. Tuesday December 14, 2010 – 11:30am EST Sign up... Posted Nov 25 2010, 05:29 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, dell, webinar

• Baseline: Help Desk Not Much Help–the slide deck

  Baseline has put together a slideshow based on the numbers in our recent report about Help Desk Efficiency.  You can grab the report here: Help Desk Efficiency Report Sift through the slide show: http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Help... Posted Nov 24 2010, 05:22 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, Green IT, Shopping, IT Efficiency

• Forrester’s Doug Washburn and 1E’s Sumir Karayi talk about PC Power Management

  Learn from Forrester about the immediate benefits you could achieve by deploying enterprise class PC Power Management. Forrester’s Doug Washburn and 1E’s Sumir Karayi talk about PC Power Management Read More... Posted Nov 24 2010, 05:10 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, Green IT, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman

• Server Power Management is the final piece in the jigsaw

  I have to admit, that when we first designed and produced version 1.0 of NightWatchman, few people got the point. ‘Turn off computers! What the heck! Why would you want to do that!’ and ’We just leave ours on 24X7’ … Continue reading → Read... Posted Nov 24 2010, 04:44 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, Server Power Management, NightWatchman Server, data center efficiency

• Forbes: Power Management Questions for Every CIO

  Vendors like 1E offer the ability to manage both servers and desktops in a way that is sensitive to the applications that are running on them. Read the full article   I read this article today and was blown away … Continue reading → Read... Posted Nov 23 2010, 03:58 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman, NightWatchman Server

• InfoTech Spotlight – Data Center Power Management: No Longer Just a Talking Point

  For the people in charge of computer data centers, the ability to easily and intelligently monitor and control power usage is a big deal. Because of the trend toward cloud computing, this is a growth industry despite the down economy. … Continue... Posted Nov 23 2010, 08:33 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman, NightWatchman Server

• IT-Online: 1E’s NightWatchman seeks to eliminate IT waste

  In South Africa, with year on year energy increases of 25% per annum, and an increasingly threatened power supply, it stands to reason that more companies need to become more innovative in the way they deliver services and provide quantifiable …... Posted Nov 23 2010, 07:46 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, PC Power Management, NightWatchman

• 2010 Energy Efficient IT Report from CDW – Key Facts

  I do like a good report! I know it’s all too easy to throw around stats and numbers in this game, and the huge growth in Green IT and Energy Efficiency in IT has meant that Whitepapers and reports … Continue reading → Read More... Posted Nov 23 2010, 05:38 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, energy efficient it

• Are You Ready for Datacenter Efficiency?

  As companies are still contemplating what exactly the “Cloud” is or if it’s eventual materialization will be significant, there are bits of the Cloud that are actually here now.  Are you familiar with the term “datacenter”?  Thought so. A lot... Posted Nov 19 2010, 11:05 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman, NightWatchman Server

• Parker Hannifin Saves $600,000 with Power Management Software

  Parker deployed an integrated suite of 1E software including Nomad Enterprise, which automatically distributes software and patch updates, and NightWatchman WakeUp, 1E’s power management solution. The project eliminated the need for 458 servers... Posted Nov 19 2010, 08:08 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News

• OpsMgr RMS Gray State Issue

  I have seen several issues on the RMS and through troubleshooting, a number are all linked to the same problem. Issues seen are the RMS State appearing greyed out in the console, Alert Notifications not being sent via the SMTP … Continue reading... Posted Nov 18 2010, 03:20 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, opsmgr, troubleshooting