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Green Management Keeps Green in Your Wallet

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Crude oil prices have climbed to all time highs, driving up energy costs beyond the record levels set during the energy crisis of 1979—even when taking into account the value of money almost 30 years ago. Beyond driving up the daily costs to fill up our vehicles or buy consumer staples, the energy costs of running IT systems have jumped dramatically. Until recently, little attention was paid to the cost of energy used by IT systems, but as power consumption and electricity prices increase, ways to reduce these costs have become pressing topics among IT administrators and their management.

So what can your organization do to reduce the energy costs of your IT systems?

One of the most obvious is simply to turn off unused machines. In after hours, organizations need to automatically and safely power down machines that are unused for a period of time. Just as importantly is then allowing these same machines to be automatically powered on for scheduled maintenance or remote access for patch updates or anything else required. Such is standard functionality in the KBOX system management appliance. Through configuration management and integrated Wake-on-LAN capabilities the KBOX by KACE allows an organization to make a serious dent in rapidly increasing energy costs. It’s these types of capabilities that drove the inclusion of the KBOX in Canada’s BC Hydro’s Power Smart Program list of approved products as well as among industry analyst Gartner’s report on select PC Power Management Vendors.

While we cannot control the increasing costs of energy, we can take active measures to reduce our consumption. KBOX by KACE is one such way.

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