January 2011 - Posts

• Report Highlights IT For Sustainability

  As Green IT in particular and Business Sustainability in general moves firmly into the mainstream, so reporting is becoming a must-have at all levels of participation. As companies implement Green IT projects and other business wide energy and carbon... Posted Jan 31 2011, 05:15 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, IT Efficiency, IT for sustainability

• How important is PC Power Management to Ford? Check out their Wikipedia page

  If you haven’t seen it yet, Microsoft recently posted some information about how Ford expects to save over $1 million on PC Power Management alone by combining System Center Configuration Manager with 1E’s NightWatchman software.  If you thought... Posted Jan 31 2011, 08:32 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, PC Power Management, NightWatchman

• Organization-wide Energy Consumption–The Bigger Picture

  Construction contractor Bovis Lend Lease told Information Age recently that it had cut the energy consumption of its desktop infrastructure by 32% using 1e’s NightWatchman product. Sustainability IT trends | Effective IT Survey 2010 (function() Read... Posted Jan 28 2011, 10:44 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Server Power Management, PC Power Management

• The Green Grid has a New Boss and a New Focus

  The Green Grid has a new boss. Mark Monroe is the new Executive Director, formerly Sun Microsystems‘ Director of Sustainable Computing, and was a founding director of the Green Grid. If you haven’t come across the Green Grid before, … Continue... Posted Jan 28 2011, 06:50 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, data center efficiency, the green grid, sustainable it

• Ford Expects to Save More Than $1 Million with PC Power Management

  We love to hear about how well our products work.  More importantly, we love to hear that our products are doing their intended job of saving our customers time, money and resources.  And yet, there’s even an additional component …... Posted Jan 26 2011, 09:59 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, PC Power Management, ConfigMgr, NightWatchman, R3

• China Leads the Way on Clean Energy

  I have to hold my hands up and say that I wouldn’t have believed it possible to write that title a year ago. Back then most of the publicity around China’s energy story was based around the seemingly insatiable demand … Continue reading →... Posted Jan 25 2011, 02:37 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Clean Energy, smart grid

• 1E Joins Microsoft Partner Solutions Center to Strengthen Virtualisation and Cloud Offerings

  1E Extends Relationship with Microsoft to Focus on Development of Integrated IT Efficiency Solutions NEW YORK & LONDON, 24th January 2011 - 1E, a software and services company that improves enterprise IT efficiency, today announced that it joined... Posted Jan 24 2011, 12:03 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, NightWatchman Server

• Windows 7 Deployment the 1E way – Part 5 – Image is everything…or is it?

  What your users see when they first sit down in front of their new operating system is going to depend on 2 things: Firstly, what’s in your operating system image file and secondly how the task sequence used to deploy … Continue reading →... Posted Jan 24 2011, 07:54 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News

• New Memory Device Could Increase Server Energy Efficiency

  Every now and then you read about something new that genuinely excites you – whether it actually makes it to production or not is another matter! Science Daily reports that researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a …... Posted Jan 24 2011, 07:00 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, nightwatchman server edition, NightWatchman Server, energy efficient it

• Feeding the MMS 2011 Train

  Can you believe that MMS 2011 is just around the corner??  1E has been part of this historic event for so long and the systems management space has really grown since the event’s inception.  It has been awesome being part … Continue reading... Posted Jan 21 2011, 10:36 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Events, MMS

• Energy security a journey of 1000 miles | Smart Grid

  The deeper you delve into the proposed vision of a smart, clean-energy grid — much less a supergrid — the more daunting the task appears. Looking into the future is like working your way through a set of matryoshka dolls, … Continue reading →... Posted Jan 21 2011, 08:04 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Server Power Management, PC Power Management

• Business ‘ants’ will win in long run | Smart Grid

  There’s a special kind of tormented satisfaction reserved for people like Lord Nicholas Stern and companies like Comverge, 1E, EnerNOC, GridPoint and other energy management specialists. The satisfaction comes from their knowing that money spent... Posted Jan 21 2011, 08:02 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Server Power Management, PC Power Management

• 1E Friday Roundup

  Time for a quick summary of the stories and technologies that are finding favor (or not) in the 1E camp..   Clean Energy Lots of tales around clean energy, with a fair amount of money changing hands and new … Continue reading →... Posted Jan 21 2011, 06:42 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Musings, IT Efficiency, 1e, Clean Energy, climate change, tidal energy

• Wasting Energy is a “bad habit,” companies falling behind

  Greenbang has an article posted today citing a survey by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy from a couple years ago, where it was determined that US companies alone losing $2.8 billion a year in wasted energy costs. According … Continue reading... Posted Jan 20 2011, 08:27 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Server Power Management, PC Power Management

• How Secure Is Your Power Management Solution?

  Security is a topic that’s rarely covered in Power Management discussions, but in reality it should be top of the list as more and more services become cloud based and users have access to data from so many diverse … Continue reading →... Posted Jan 20 2011, 02:42 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: PC Power Management, NightWatchman, security, common criteria evaluation