A typical desktop PC with a 17-inch LCD monitor requires about 100 watts—65 watts for the computer and 35 watts for the monitor. If left on 24x7 for one year, this same computer will consume 874 kilowatt hours of electricity—that’s enough to release 750 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the equivalent of driving 820 miles in the average car! Faronics Power Save delivers PC power management that does not interfere with user or IT needs. Power Save keeps computers running when users need them, accurately determines when computers are inactive so they can be powered down, and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports.

Power Save's non-disruptive PC power management analyzes CPU, disk, keyboard, mouse, and application and network activity before taking computer power management actions. It is also available for both Windows and Mac computers. With an average savings of $50 per computer per year for every computer deployed, Power Save is the ultimate PC power management software solution for desktop and laptop computers.

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Discover how Power Save applies to your environment:

Companies today are finding that ‘going green’ is not only environmentally responsible, it is also fiscally smart. Decreasing the amount that organizations consume and dispose of helps reduce company carbon footprints and costs. Therefore, Facilities, Operations, and Energy Managers are looking for verifiable ways to save energy. When asked how IT can assist, IT Directors point out that they need a non-disruptive solution in order to help reduce PC power costs. However, most IT departments have found this to be difficult to implement as the standard PC power management features that come with computers are disruptive to employee and IT activity. Employees can not afford to have computers power down during business activities or projects, and IT personnel require computers to be on during maintenance and update sessions. Forced to leave the computers running all day and night, IT is either unable or unwilling to power computers down when they are not in use.

Non-Disruptive PC Power Management

Power Save is the only PC power management tool on the market today that eliminates computer energy waste without disrupting existing IT administration processes and without impacting critical user applications or data. Power Save is designed to look at CPU and Disk Utilization thresholds that IT administrators can set so that Power Save will not shut down computers if background jobs such as VPN, remote access, and remote backup are running. Power Save allows IT administrators to specify critical programs that are exempt from power down if they are running. CPU and Disk Utilization combines with this feature to ensure that systems are not powered down when employees or IT do not want them to. Power Save also supports Standby (recommended) and Hibernate power modes to ensure that any unsaved user data is not lost.

The ability to schedule Power Save configuration updates on a single, daily, weekly, or monthly basis allows IT administrators to effortlessly make changes to enterprise PC power management policies.

Verifiable Savings

Power Save generates accurate reports detailed by computer and monitor that show the incremental savings gained through the use of Power Save in both kWH and $; this data can be exported to any other reporting tool for additional analysis.

Power Save's Audit mode provides a baseline measure of the energy being consumed, making it easy to determine the true value of the savings generated when Power Save's features are enabled.

Rapid Return-On-Investment

The average return-on-investment for a Power Save deployment is 8 months—less if companies take advantage of energy rebate programs. Faronics has partnered with the largest energy utilities in North America to offer rebates that make Power Save free or available at a 50% discount. Faronics and its channel partners are also able to assist you with the paperwork to make this process easy and quick, and eliminate problems where rebates return to general revenue instead of your departmental budget.