Case Studies

Devon and Cornwall Constabulary

rodtrent — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:38:34 GMT

Deployed by 1E as part of a Devon and Cornwall Police and SunGard Public Sector Facilities Management ICT project, a more robust IT infrastructure plus reduced power consumption proved a winning combination for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

Department of Children, Schools & Families

rodtrent — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:37:50 GMT

The UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families found that many of its PCs were being left on unnecessarily overnight and at weekends. As part of the target for all government offices to be carbon neutral by 2012, the Department is committed to reducing its carbon footprint and setting an example to others to advocate emission savings.

eSCOP Road to IT Security & Regulator Compliance

rodtrent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:05:30 GMT

The Social Services Agency (SSA) of Santa Clara County must respond to Federal and regional security and regulatory compliance requirements as part of its mandate to manage a wide variety of computing systems and very sensitive data. Collecting, auditing and reporting related IT events is a mission critical objective.

In the heart of Silicon Valley, the SSA had many technological choices but selected the security and platform expertise of Enterprise Certified Corporation (ECC). ECC professional services applied its eSCOP™ platform with the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007’s Audit Collection Services (ACS) to address extremely sensitive security requirements. In addition, with the enhanced features of eSCOP in support of Operations Manager 2007’s Data Warehouse, ECC provides robust reporting, archiving and administrative functionality to manage system health and application event data.

Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007 affords end-to-end system and security event monitoring. The new Enterprise Certified Corporation eSCOP™ application seamlessly integrates Operations Manager 2007 as an extensible and intuitive administrative console for the Audit Collection Services (ACS) and Data Warehouse databases. ECC eSCOP™ is designed to report, filter and archive extremely large, enterprise-wide data repositories at unmatched speeds.

1E US Energy Report

rodtrent — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:43:08 GMT

The US PC Energy Report 2007 detailing the results from the research (available for download below) reveals some staggering findings:
•	Out of 104 million office PCs in the US, at least 31.2 million are left on all night.
•	Turning off every work computer in the United States every night would save as much CO2 emissions as taking every car in the state of Maryland off the road.
•	The simple step of shutting computers down each night can save a 10,000 PC enterprise more than $165,000 a year in energy costs. Across the US, this adds up to more than $1.72 billion dollars and almost 15 million tons of CO2 emissions.

The Forrester Wave™: Client Management Suites, Q3 2007

rodtrent — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:08:11 GMT

Client management suites help IT with PC life-cycle management with tools that automate operating

systems (OS) deployment, software distribution, and systems management and provide visibility into

the state of each corporate-owned PC. Forrester’s product-based evaluation of eight leading client

management solutions across 98 criteria revealed that HP, Altiris (now part of Symantec), and CA have

established client management suite leadership — thanks to their integrated solutions and strong focus

on policy-driven management. LANDesk, an Avocent company, offers one of the strongest offerings,

with full management and security functionality, but it’s the smallest vendor in the evaluation and will

have a hard time competing with much larger competitors in the long term. Novell and Microsoft offer

solid capabilities today, but it is their vision of integrated security and management that is worth waiting

for. IBM and BMC Software are both Strong Performers but lack some of the more basic support and

popular features that users have come to expect from their client management vendor.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for PC Configuration Life Cycle Management, 2006

rodtrent — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:14:35 GMT

Who's who in the workstation management space, and who is in the lead.

Dell's 1E Case Study

rodtrent — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:36:35 GMT

Dell is the worldwide number 1 PC manufacturer for Corporations and Government organisations. They sell over 4 million Optiplex PC’s per annum which generates $14billion in revenue for Dell. 1E have now officially partnered with Dell so they can resell all 1E software.

1E's partnership with Dell and endorsement though this case study establishes 1E as the only credible player for PC Power Management.

Key highlights:

1. Dell is saving $1.8m in power savings across 50,000 PC’s per annum (they now have over 70,000 deployed)

2. This is a 40% reduction in energy costs for powering their desktop and notebook systems