CASE STUDY
Faronics Power Save and Oklahoma City University
"We chose Power Save because it offered the best value for the price and was the easiest to maintain and deploy"
- Joey Arato, Help Desk Coordinator
Challenges faced

Oklahoma City University (OCU) is an urban private university located in the midtown district of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The university has approximately 2100 undergraduate students and 1700 graduate students. There are 550 employees, 1100 workstations and 50+ servers in a mixed Windows and Mac environment. Because there was no dedicated PC power management strategy in place, computers were shut down manually only when the staff chose to turn them off. Some systems even remained on and active for as long as four months.

A Solution That Worked

The intelligent PC power management features of Faronics Power Save was exactly what the university needed. Power Save has a unique feature that no other energy management software has—the ability to initiate energy conservation policies based on CPU, disk, network, and application activity. Power Save has now been configured at OCU to shut down after 90 minutes of inactivity, assuming that disk and CPU usage is below 20%. The university has also scheduled the system to power on at midnight every Wednesday to receive updates. Faronics Power Save is providing OCU with $27,000 in savings on their electrical bill over the next three years.

Power Save & Oklahoma City University energy management software
by Kelly Batke

Because there was no dedicated PC power management strategy in place, computers at Oklahoma City University (OCU) were shut down manually only when the staff chose to turn them off. Some systems even remained on and active for as long as four months.

An intelligent energy management software, Faronics Power Save was exactly what the university needed. Power Save has a unique feature that no other energy management software has—the ability to initiate energy conservation policies based on CPU, disk, network, and application activity.

Power Save has now been configured at OCU to shut down after 90 minutes of inactivity, assuming that disk and CPU usage is below 20%. The university has also scheduled the system to power on at midnight every Wednesday to receive updates.

The energy managements software’s ability to lower the university’s computer energy costs in a manner that is non-disruptive to organizations, users, and IT processes has been a big success. And thanks to the specialized enterprise reporting, OCU can also now verify their savings.

Faronics Power Save is providing OCU with $27,000 in savings on their electrical bill over the next three years, and the university couldn’t be happier.

 

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Faronics Power Save and Oklahoma City University
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