The 1E products help take a lot of the mgmt out of the equation. -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings
Yeah, something like this is difficult to gauge. What if some of the users do not power down, or is there a management tool to allow you to remotely shut down (add back in management time/costs)? I know that can be scripted fairly easy, but it would still require management/babysitting. I'm not against it, just thinking out loud. Would be curious to know some real-world results, if that's possible. We are demo-ing thin clients right now (VMWare environment), so we should see some power savings returned from those little guys, but that was not the main driving force behind that project. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings We are doing a pilot test of the surveyor green pc product from Verdiem to see if we want an automated agent that controls our PC's to save in energy among other things, but we are basically finding out that savings aren't great until the long run. It does help with doing things like AV scan, patches and what not at nighttime by controlling the PC state -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings Not having dove into the WOL computations myself, wouldn't it require standby power? A quick Google came up with an average of 10-15 Watts used for standby mode. We were just talking about this here last week, in regards to all of the electronics in our homes that now run in standby mode. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings So far this is the best thing I've found online. http://www.eu-energystar.org/en/en_008b.shtml Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 -----Original Message----- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings Something like this.... Average 65 watts for 1 computer (while idle) 8760 hours in a year - 2000 (hours you are at work) = 6760 (hours you are not at work per year) 65 watts * 6760 hours / 1000 = 439.4 kilowatt-hours 439.4 * $.119 (RATE) = $52.29 (cost per year of one computer being on while you are not there) -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: WOL cost savings On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:45, Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone put something together to show management in regards to the > possible ROI of using WOL? I'm more interested in getting some solid > numbers on the savings per PC per month. I'm not really sure where to > go in order to get these kinds of numbers. I've seen some general > stuff out there that range between $25-$75/year per PC. But not how that was calculated. One obvious metric is to calculate energy costs for the PCs - how much electricity they consume when turned on 24x7 vs when turned on 8x5. That alone should be fairly significant. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. 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