Version 2.0 comes packed with a brand new policy management console on the server; which not only is more than 3 times faster than its predecessor, but also includes a bunch of new features such as a ‘Daily Report’ widget, different work-hour, non-work hour policies, power management exemption periods etc.

This version releases on 15th December 2010.

Sneak peek

CoreLogic – a leading US information services company, is saving more than 11,000 USD & reducing carbon emissions by more than 94 tonnes – per 1000 computers, per year.

“Apart from the associated cost savings, I urge organizations to look at the energy savings & carbon reduction that can be achieved through this, thereby helping our community and sustainability“

Rating their overall experience with us at a generous 9 out of 10, Lineesh Raj (General Manager & Head IT) expressed – “You have a great team and promising product. Keep up the spirit!“.

To read the entire case study, click here.

Often, organizations choose to keep their computers turned on all night for a variety of reasons including:

• the need to push updates/patches
• run critical maintenace tasks – scans/backups
• to make the system available to employees as soon as they walk in

In the process, large amount of energy is wasted.

Wake-on-LAN integration in Enpower allows organizations to wake systems in their network in a flexible manner; thus avoiding the need to keep systems on all the time – cutting down operating costs without affecting system availability.

Using the integrated Wake-on-LAN feature in Enpower, you can:

• Wake systems instantly at the click of a button
• Provide a schedule for each day of the week to wake systems up
• Allow select employees to be able to wake their systems from anywhere in the world

Wake-on-LAN needs to be supported by your system’s hardware as well as needs to be enabled in the BIOS and through Windows. All wake ready systems are listed in Enpower’s central console for easy management. The console shows you the current state of your network – so you know – at any moment, how many machines are turned on in your network.

From wikipedia:

The computer to be woken is first shut down (sleeping, hibernating, or soft off; i.e., ACPI state G1 or G2), with power reserved for the network card, but not disconnected from its power source. The network card listens for a specific packet containing its MAC address, called the magic packet, broadcast on the broadcast address for that particular subnet (or an entire LAN, though this requires special hardware or configuration).

The issue that system admins often face is that most routers are configured by default to block all broadcast packets originating from outside its subnet. This means a system sending magic packets trying to wake other systems up – can only do so for systems within its subnet.

Enpower works around this intelligently by selecting one “wake proxy” per subnet – which is simply a turned on computer – which has been delegated the responsibility of waking machines in its subnet, for as long as it remains on. As soon as this wake proxy goes off, the central server automatically chooses another available system in the subnet to perform this job. While this could mean that you need to have one system on per subnet to guarantee wake across your network, optionally – if you can configure your network to allow broadcast of magic packets across subnets, you can select – one “master” wake proxy – which would most often be your Enpower’s central server.

Wake-on-LAN , as on date is fully integrated into Enpower, though in the future, we do plan to release it as a stand-alone installable which can be integrated into other enterprise network management products.

Following is an excerpt from our guest article published at yourstory.in.

There’s a social network for almost anything you can think of and one might be forgiven for assuming that this new web would have spawned several successful cleantech business models centered around social networking. But look around, and very few notable names come to mind. There are a handful of interesting green social networks in CarbonRally, MakeMeSustainable and their counterparts, and a noteworthy (but arguably trivial) game in (Lil) Green Patch; but none of them seem to have acquired significant momentum / scale.

And here’s why we think green social won’t work. Or at least not in its current avatar.

When the novelty around a service wears off, it needs to address two key issues for the service to remain ’sticky’ and subsequently become addictive:

… Read Full Article

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At Creative Riot Software, we’ve been working on the concept of PC Power Management for well over a year, and ENPOWER is what we have to show for it, an install-and-forget tool that helps organizations ensure that their PCs switch to low power mode (sleep/standby/hibernate) when they’re idle. ENPOWER should realistically help you *incrementally* avoid wastage of between 50-200 kWH per user per year depending on your computer type and usage patterns. (The Climate Savers Computing initiative backed by Energy Star, WWF, Google, Microsoft, HP, Intel and others and states that you can save more than 600kWH using PC Power Management)

ENPOWER - PC Power Management Simplified

Nellis Air Force Base Solar Power Array

The Social Power Array on Facebook