1E Blog : IT Efficiency

How can Australian organizations prepare for carbon tax..?

1E Blogs - Insight and debate on IT Efficiency — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:47 GMT

Thanks in part to its small population, Australia is the developed world’s worst polluter per capita, accounting for 1.5% of the world’s emissions. Its controversial new Clean Energy Act will force the country’s 500 worst-polluting companies...(read more)

Gartner’s Top 10 IT Challenges and how 1E fits

1E Blogs — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:42:24 GMT

Posted in several places today, news outlets are promoting Gartner’s recent comments on the top 10 IT challenges for the next cycle of cycles. It’s always amazing to me how well 1E is positioned to solve a lot of the … Continue reading →...(read more)

eWeek Europe: Rising Energy Costs Boost Power Management

1E Blogs — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:07:29 GMT

eWeek has some excellent coverage using some updated information about the state of Power Management in the enterprise. It’s amazing to us when we see our vision and solutions for Efficient IT, through aspects such as Power Management, continue...(read more)

Strategies to streamline and reduce wastage in your server estate

1E Blogs — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:45:16 GMT

Our own Andy Hawkins, product manager here at 1E, has written a great piece on real strategies for reducing cost and energy in the datacenter at the Daily Energy Report. Here’s an excerpt: If you virtualize 100 percent of your … Continue reading...(read more)

Part 3: Getting software licensing under control

1E Blogs — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

The wrong tools Many organizations worry that using traditional Systems Management or Software Asset Management tools is not only time consuming but frequently devoid of any identifiable ROI. In most cases, traditional tools focus on compliance and license...(read more)

Knowing how much energy is a good start

1E Blogs — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:38:22 GMT

There is a new category of software emerging called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). Software and tools fall under this banner if they measure, report or manage the energy consumption of data centers. Our NightWatchman Server Edition product...(read more)

Webinar: Analyst Doug Washburn on Cost Cutting and User Empowerment

1E Blogs — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:00:00 GMT

As cloud computing and the consumerization of IT erodes boundaries from the data center to the desktop, empowered employees can act on their technology needs without involving the IT department. We discuss the tremendous opportunity for organizations...(read more)

Webinar: Empower your users and cut costs with Efficient IT

1E Blogs — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:00:00 GMT

What you will learn at this thought-provoking webinar Critical elements for your IT efficiency business case and specific ways to cut IT costs How to improve user satisfaction and empower employees while keeping the power in IT Ways to determine …...(read more)

Does Virtualization alone make your datacenter more IT efficient?

1E Blogs — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

If you virtualize 100 percent of your physical servers today then you will be running more operating system instances than you started with. The physical and environmental footprint has changed but you still need to monitor, patch, secure, backup and...(read more)

ITBusinessEdge Interview: 1E and the Datacenter

1E Blogs — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Data Center Infrastructure Management is emerging as the next wave in the Green IT movement. However, integrating this new layer of management into existing data and facilities platforms is proving to be a challenge. One particular sticking point is gaining...(read more)

Agent versus Agentless Myth Busting: Server power management

1E Blogs — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Using an agent for a server power management solution is the only way to identify whether useful work is being carried out on a server. This is the only way to accurately determine if a server is being used, enabling … Continue reading → Read...(read more)

Agent versus Agentless Myth Busting: Protecting user data

1E Blogs — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

An agent running on the system is capable of local data collection, correlation and processing. Taking PC power management as an example, the agent can make better decisions based on activity that happens locally, for example whether the user is …...(read more)

Software licensing inefficiency in the datacenter

1E Blogs — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

The overprovisioning of servers in data centers is rife and 15% are not actively used has led to inefficient use of hardware. On top of that there’s software license waste through unused and partially used applications on organizations’ servers. Anecdotal...(read more)

1E Nomad: The most intelligent bandwidth management solution

1E Blogs — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:10:00 GMT

Bandwidth constraints can hamper the flow of everyday business data as well as software deployment, patching and OS upgrades. Using spare network bandwidth Nomad Enterprise securely delivers operating system upgrades, software deployments and patches...(read more)

AppClarity Analysis Tool version 2.1 released

1E Blogs — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:19:00 GMT

In other news… in addition to AppClarity version 2.1 being released, we’re also publishing a 2.1 version of the analysis tool. It gives two additional pages of intelligence in the software estate: 1. Office Analysis – All versions are inspected …...(read more)