Intelligent Energy Management That Makes CENTS

A typical desktop PC with a 17-inch LCD monitor requires about 100 watts—65 watts for the computer and 35 watts for the monitor. If left on 24x7 for one year, this same computer will consume 874 kilowatt hours of electricity—that’s enough to release 750 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the equivalent of driving 820 miles in the average car!

Faronics Power Save delivers desktop computer energy management that doesn’t interfere with user or IT needs. Power Save uses intelligent energy management to ensure workstations are available when system resources are required, but conserving power during productivity downtimes. Power Save provides organizations with real financial and energy savings on every computer deployed, as well as centralized workstation power status control and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports

Manitoba Power Smart Rebate Program: Faronics Power Save

Reduce Consumption at Zero Cost - The average return-on-investment for a Power Save deployment is approximately 4 months, but because of rebates currently offered by Manitoba Hydro, the return on investment is instantaneous. Power Smart rebates cover 100% of the total price per unit. So, your cost is zero. By working with EPIC Information Solutions, you can not only take advantage of this rebate, but also reduce your carbon footprint, and start saving real money every year. Additionally, Faronics and EPIC Information Solutions are also able to assist you with the paperwork to make this process easy and quick, and eliminate problems where rebates return to general revenue instead of your departmental budget.

Known Savings at your Fingertips - Power Save generates accurate reports detailed by computer and monitor, showing you the incremental savings gained through the use of Power Save, in terms of both monetary and energy usage. Power Save's Audit mode provides a baseline measure of the energy being consumed, making it easy to determine the true value of the savings generated when Power Save's features are enabled.

Non-Disruptive Energy Management - The ability to schedule Power Save configuration updates on a single, daily, weekly, or monthly basis allows IT administrators to effortlessly make changes to enterprise energy management policies. Power Save is designed to look at CPU and Disk Utilization thresholds that IT administrators can set so that Power Save will not shut down computers if background jobs such as VPN, remote access, and remote backup are running. Power Save allows IT administrators to specify critical programs that are exempt from power down if they are running. CPU and Disk Utilization combines with this feature to ensure that systems are not powered down when students or teachers do not want them to. Power Save also supports Standby (recommended) and Hibernate power modes to ensure that any unsaved student or teacher data is not lost.

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Benefits

1. Typical savings are $25 per year/per computer
2. Computer energy management that is non-disruptive to IT and end-users
3. Provides tangible financial savings to organizations by reducing computer power consumption
4. Proves rapid return-on-investment through company–wide tracking and reporting
5. Ensures workstations are available when productivity is required and employs energy savings when computers are idle
6. Strengthens IT control over network systems while promoting user productivity at all times
7. Fosters feasible environmental responsibility that is easy to deploy and manage
8. Decreases in CO2 or equivalent emissions

Features

• Intelligent Configuration Settings
• Definitions can be based on CPU, disk, keyboard, mouse and application activity
• Shutdown without the loss of user productivity
• Flexible Scheduling
• Options to turn off the monitor, and standby, hibernate or shutdown the computer
• Schedule Wake-on-LAN, shutdown, or restart events
• Schedule Power Save configuration updates for a single, daily, weekly, or monthly occurrence
• Schedule a temporary window where Power Save will not enforce energy management policies
• Compatibility Options
• Customize the deployment as well as update and control the client workstations
• Recognizes and accommodates to Deep Freeze maintenance schedules
• Localized in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese
• Customized Inactivity Definitions
• Employ energy saving actions when CPU or disk activity falls below a defined level
• Prevent the workstation from employing power saving actions when a particular application is running
• Enterprise Control
• Faronics Core Console provides unified workstation management capabilities
• Workstation grouping makes managing large deployments easy
• Disable and override a workstation’s operating system energy management settings
• Savings Reports
• Generate enterprise power consumption and savings reports through Faronics Core Console
• Detailed workstation utilization reporting allows you to see how much power you are saving based upon your regional electricity cost
• Audit mode tracks the workstation energy savings that could have been gained had Power Save been installed and active

Testimonials

Initially, we installed Power Save on only two computers and then proceeded to evaluate it for over a month. In September of 2007, we deployed the Power Save campus-wide on all student workstations. Reporting really sealed the deal for us. It makes it easy to associate a dollar value to the energy management methods we have deployed.
Sung Lee - Director of Student Computer Support, Howard Community College

We chose Power Save because of cost and the fact that it did not require SMS, which we are still getting implemented at this time. It has freed up the time and resources of IT because we trust Power Save to shut down the labs for us in order to satisfy our district’s energy policy requirements. Newport Independent Schools currently have their computers configured so that the workstations are powered on only during school hours. Additionally, the monitors are set to power down after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Rusty Adams - Lead Technician, Newport Independent Schools

We’ve had a very positive experience with both Faronics and Power Save. We did review a number of competing solutions, and Faronics Power Save came in on top of all the competitors with a great set of features, within our budget, and the best bang for the buck.
Ethan Haberman, Network Supervisor, Coeur D’Alene School District

System Requirements
The Power Save client computer requires Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, or Windows Vista. Faronics Core Console system requirements can be found in the Faronics Core Console user guide. It is highly recommended that all components be installed using a Windows Administrator account.

Download an Evaluation Version for Free!
An evaluation version of Power Save gives you a fully-functional Faronics product for 30 days. It is a great way for users to test drive the solution and see for themselves how the software can manage, simplify, and secure your computing environment.

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