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- Power Management
- Retarding energy use by using low-voltage CPUs and being able to slow down or temporarily disconnect electronic circuits that are inactive. Power management is vital in laptop computers and...
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- Spice up your power management
- InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...
- Tags: Notebooks, power management, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Spice up your power management
- Spiceworks teams up with Intel to release free power management software module for small and midsize businesses. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Power Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- LaCie Network Space 2 NAS adds torrent support, wake-on LAN; $160
- LaCie on Wednesday updated its Network Space 2 network-attached storage device with integrated torrent support, wake-on LAN power management and an estimated $160 price tag. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: NAS, Power Management, Network, LaCie, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, LANs, Hardware, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- If you STILL haven't invested in power management, here's another option
- SetPower Enterprise offers another alternative for IT managers seeking a Windows power management utility. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Power Management, SetPower Enterprise, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- New power management software targets "unused" servers
- 1E, the self-proclaimed market-share leader in power management software for client PCs with 4 million licenses deployed, is now targeting servers. 1E CEO Sumir Karayi figures, based on another independent study, that approximately 4.7 million of the servers in use today are wasting energy to the tune of about...
- Tags: Software, Power Management, Data Center, 1E Ltd., Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- A million seats and counting: Verdiem scores another major customer, partner for power management software
- With more than 1 million desktops now using its power management software technology, Verdiem is adding another major customer this week -- chocolate giant Cadbury -- as well as as major technology partner -- security software developer McAfee. The company also has earned Windows 7 logo certification as a Microsoft...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Power Management, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Verdiem, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Windows 7: A worthwhile upgrade?
- Will Microsoft's Windows 7 succeed where Vista failed? The new operating system offers a new graphical user interface, more reliable power management tools, and better search, but it still might not offer enough to convince PC users to buy it. ZDNet Correspondent Sumi Das talks to Larry Dignan, editor...
- Tags: Power Management, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 7, Ed Bott, Sumi Das, Larry Dignan
- Videos 2009-09-28
- Savings from power managing your desktop may be bigger than you realize
- Another option for Power managementI have responded to blogs on the topic of power management a number of times and hope that some have taken my advice.I have rolled out a power management scheme for free with the help of the Cadmus Group. They are working with the EPA /...
- Tags: power management, GPO, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Savings from power managing your desktop may be bigger than you realize
- When it comes to power management software options, you pretty much have two courses you can take: You can opt for one of the standalone packages being touted by the likes of Verdium or 1E, or you can handle this sort of management through a broader patch management or systems...
- Tags: Numara Software Inc., Software, Desktop, Power Management, Systems Management, Persystent, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Another university embraces desktop power management
- Overall cost vs savings?Just out of curiosity, what is the price per license for 15K nodes, and how much is Tenabes charging for the rollout.When all things are considered, I would be suprised if that $35 - $45 per node is ever truly gained.
- Tags: power management, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Another university embraces desktop power management
- Power management software company BigFix has scored a 15,000-license deal with Texas Southern University. The school expects to save about $225,000 per year in energy costs (which translates to $35 to $45 per managed endpoint per year). The details of the deal, which is being deployed by IT services company...
- Tags: Desktop, Power Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Most businesses still paying lip service to power management
- A new survey from KACE, which makes various systems management appliances, finds that even though 93 percent of businesses acknowledge that power management can help reduce energy costs, only about half are using some sort of power management policies or technologies today. Fewer than 10 percent use...
- Tags: Power Management, Kace, Systems Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- TurnOffScreen 1.0 (Windows)
- TurnOffScreen makes it possible to turn off your monitor after a given period of time using the screensaver. It works when PC power management doesn't! Moreover you can use the TurnOffScreen button in the quick launch bar to turn off the monitor without using the physical button, very useful for...
- Tags: Monitor, Power Management, Microsoft Windows, TurnOffScreen, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-08-26
- U.K. security firm slashes power consumption with Faronics Power Save
- Utility software company Faronics has published a new corporate case study detailing how U.K. security and alarm company ADT is using its Power Save power management software across 2,700 desktops and notebook computers. Using investment is helping ADT save roughly 36,200 kilowatt hours per month in power, according to Faronics....
- Tags: Security, Power Management, Audit, Power Consumption, U.K., Financial Accounting, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Verdiem: One million desktops and counting for power management software
- OK, so maybe it doesn't sound like such a huge number when you consider how many copies of Windows live in the world, but power management utility company Verdiem (which has some pretty sweet deals with partners Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft) has hit the one-million-deployments mark for its enterprise power management...
- Tags: Software, Desktop, Power Management, Cox Communications Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Semantic-Less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance
- A computer system often has multiple power management modules controlling different power knobs. Uncoordinated operation of these knobs not only leads to suboptimal operation but may also cause unsafe behaviors. Coordination methods have thus been proposed to jointly control the power knobs and performance. However, in many systems, such joint...
- Tags: Power Management, Performance, Module
- White papers 2009-08-04
- Climate Savers power management seminar transcript now online
- In case you missed it, Climate Savers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently held a cyber-seminar focused on quantifying the savings that could be associated with various power management programs. Could be a good refresher course, especially as the dog days of August loom and people crank up the...
- Tags: Power Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Auto Power-on and Shut-down 2.30 (Windows)
- An easy to use application that allows you to control your computer resume from power-off state hibernation or wake up from sleep mode stand by. It is a good power management application, which has a clean and easy-to-manage task schedule that allows you to open files, play sounds, run programs,...
- Tags: Power Management, Microsoft Windows, LifSoft, Productivity, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-07-29
- Power number cruncher: Dell updates energy savings calculator
- In conjunction with reminding everyone that its products are Energy Star 5.0-compliant the company has made a series of announcements this spring and summer, Dell has enhanced its Client Energy Savings Calculator. The calculator update provides support for a broader range of power supplies, processors, disk drives, memory, storage...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Balance of power: Windows 7 walks fine line between saving battery life and alienating users
- As the countdown to the Windows 7 release to manufacturing supposedly late this month ticks away, the Microsoft sustainability team has been trumpeting the new operating system's power management credentials as loudly as possible. I've written some posts about this already, but for this entry I really wanted to mention...
- Tags: Power Management, Battery, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
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