Power Management
Energy Saving Features Reduce Resource Demands
Today’s environment of rising energy costs and shrinking IT budgets makes now the best time for companies to go green. Medium sized organizations can realize sizable returns by taking simple, yet powerful steps towards green IT.
Power management of distributed desktop PCs can make a significant resource conservation contribution, especially when combined with initiatives focused on centrally managing remote offices. Together they deliver a straightforward way to save companies hundreds of dollars annually per PC. The challenge remains doing so efficiently and across an often geographically dispersed organization.
 |
 |
 |
 |
KACE Power Savings Calculator |
 |
 |
 |
 |
The Solution
KBOX™ Systems Management Appliances are designed to save you time and your company money by easily and efficiently providing comprehensive green IT management capabilities that ensure resources are consumed only when necessary. KBOX equips systems 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.
- Using the native KBOX scripting and reporting capability, administrators can control how much power a computer uses by enforcing power settings and scheduling shutdowns on both Windows and Mac operating systems. KBOX helps IT professionals to monitor power settings via customizable reports, ensuring enforcement and the realization of lower energy costs. In many cases the reports can also be used to gain eligibility for power company rebates. The associated ROI calculator can be used to understand the potential impact of the policies and allow “what if” scenarios to be run.
- KBOX includes a built-in reporting wizard for generating tracking compliance reports, delivering both scheduled and e-mailed reports, as well an ODBC connection and published schema to make reporting as easy and flexible as possible.
- KBOX Wake-on-Lan capabilities allow remote systems to be restarted for after hours patching and updates from a centralized appliance, so that maintenance can be performed even on systems that have been powered down.
- KBOX Remote Replication capabilities allow administrators to manage multi-site configurations from a single appliance, without the added hardware and associated energy costs of alternative multi-server software solutions. These capabilities dramatically reduce the cost and resources required to manage remote sites, and enable companies to avoid the rising costs of travel to complete systems management tasks.
- Run KBOX as a virtual appliance (V-KBOX), delivering all of the systems management benefits of a physical appliance while leveraging the space, energy and resource savings of virtual environments.
- License compliance via the asset management module