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Activating Power Management: Commercial Software Packages

Inclusion in this list does not constitute EPA ENERGY STAR program endorsement, approval, or certification of these software packages.

  • 1E's NightWatchman Exit ENERGY STAR and 1E WakeUp Exit ENERGY STAR allow you to shutdown your PC and wake it up for updates at night. Dell PDF Exit ENERGY STAR cut energy use by 40% using NightWatchman and 1E WakeUp software on its desktop and notebook computers. In addition, NightWatchman Server Edition Exit ENERGY STAR provides detailed useful work analysis, efficiency and power reporting and enhanced energy savings with Drowsy Server® technology.
  • Adaptiva Companion™ Exit ENERGY STAR (by Adaptiva) centrally manages PC power policies and produces energy savings reports. It can power inactive PCs off and wake them for software updates, and allows end-users to establish custom work and holiday schedules. Read how E.ON UK uses Companion to save £140,000 a year across 11,000 PCs Exit ENERGY STAR.
  • Avocent's LANDesk Management Suite Exit ENERGY STAR allows administrators to centrally control end-node power consumption by facilitating the creation, financial evaluation, and deployment of power management policies. Brevard Public Schools (Florida) PDF (129KB) indicates annual power savings in the $300k–$500k range with LANDesk.
  • BigFix Exit ENERGY STAR Power Management enables enterprises to set and enforce power conservation measures on PCs and may also integrate PC Power Conservation with other BigFix security and system management functions. Miami Dade County Schools PDF (520KB) uses BigFix Power Management to save $2.1 million per year.
  • Centurion Technologies' Energy Saver software Exit ENERGY STAR gives network administrators the power to quickly and efficiently manage all aspects of their workstations' energy usage. A prominent university in NY PDF (1.38MB) saved over $100,000 annually using Energy Saver.
  • eiPower Saver Solution Exit ENERGY STAR is an enterprise desktop power management application that monitors the power events of PCs. Administrators can view power events, set, enforce, and fine tune Windows power settings from a central location to save power, and not interfere with PC software administration.
  • Faronics Power Save Exit ENERGY STAR is an enterprise class software product with a single mandate of identifying and shutting down inactive workstations and reporting on the generated energy savings. It runs on both, Windows PCs and Macs. Coeur D’Alene School District PDF (117KB) expects to save as much as $300,000 over the course of three years using Faronics Power Save. ADT PDF (442KB) will save over 35,000 kWh per month using Power Save.
  • KBOX™ Systems Management Appliances (by Kace) Exit ENERGY STAR allows system managers to create and enforce power management policies across both local and remote environments, and provides visibility into compliance and savings information with customizable reports. Royal Liver PDF (808KB) will save $120,000 annually by using KBOX.
  • LANrev's Power Management Exit ENERGY STARextends the built-in energy settings on Macs and Windows with enhanced scheduling and triggers. LANrev can schedule when to wake or restart a machine and track actual usage and savings with LANrev's Power Management reports.
  • Numara® Software's Power Manager Exit ENERGY STAR enforces flexible power management policies and also provides reports on energy and CO2 reductions achieved and level of power management compliancy. To learn more, read their white paper: Green IT: Saving Money While Saving Energy Exit ENERGY STAR.
  • Power Manager Exit ENERGY STAR (from Verismic) brings intuitive, low administration overhead, web-based control over your PC estate to generate cost savings and the PR benefits of Green IT. Read about how the City of Richmond chose this tool Exit ENERGY STAR.
  • Remote Desktop Exit ENERGY STAR (from Apple) can centrally control power management features on Macs.
  • Surveyor Exit ENERGY STAR (from Verdiem) allows you to activate manage, measure and reduce your PC-network energy consumption. SURVEYOR provides centralized administration of power management settings for networked PCs with intelligent policies that maximize energy savings by placing machines into a lower power states without interfering with end-user productivity, desktop maintenance or upgrades. City University of New York PDF (228KB) used the tool on nearly 30,000 PCs for a savings of $3 million over a five year period.
  • SysTrack Power Management Exit ENERGY STAR (from Lakeside Software Inc.) provides a simple automated remote deployment to the target desktop systems; dynamic power schedule discovery based on actual use; and system wakeup not reliant on WoL technology. Read about how it was used at a large financial institution Word document.
  • Triumfant’s Green IT Power Management Exit ENERGY STAR solution reduces computer power consumption without impacting computer use or administration. Based on an organization’s energy management policies, Triumfant’s Green IT Power Management solution automatically detects when a PC is out of compliance and automatically adjusts it to the correct power configuration settings. Read their white paper PDF (411KB) on Green IT Power Management.
  • vPro Exit ENERGY STAR is a platform built into Intel systems that supports remote out-of-band management of PCs, irrespective of the operating system's state. As such, it has the capability to "wake up" sleeping computers to deploy updates and applications, or to take remote control of user PCs for maintenance. "vPro has a management component integrated with Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Exit ENERGY STAR, making it easier to power up a vPro client PC that is turned off or in sleep mode in order to execute any number of system maintenance tasks."