Verdiem, Microsoft Partner to Trim Computer Energy Use

Published August 07, 2008

SEATTLE, Wash. — Verdiem this week uneveiled Edison, a free version of its Surveyor energy management software, designed to "bring PC energy management to the masses."

As part of the launch, Verdiem and Microsoft are touting the software as a way for individual computers to play a role in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which aims to reduce the overall emissions from global IT by 54 million tons in the next two years.

"PCs are the hidden energy hogs of the home and most users have no idea that they are needlessly throwing away 80 percent of their PC's energy," said Kevin Klustner, Verdiem's President and CEO. "If just 1 percent of all PCs used Edison we could potentially reduce environmental impacts by 7 billion pounds of CO2, which is equal to taking more than a half million cars off the road."

Verdiem is hoping to reach that 1 percent of the global PC population -- an estimated 10 million machines -- in the next year, by offering Edison software for free. The program is a slimmed-down version of Surveyor, Verdiem's corporate-level energy-management software, but gives Windows users control over when the software kicks in, and how much energy they want their computers to save.

The software is available for free from http://verdiem.com/edison.

Congratulations on a good start ...

Anonymous, August 20, 2008 - 07:12

We are happy to note that such large organizations are prepared to switch off their system for a day. But how does that help in fighting Global Warming. They will be back to their normal practice and have reasons as to why they cannot switch off/hibernate their systems on a daily basis and how it would impact their business.

We have a solution infraSECURE that ensures computers hibernate when not used. Capability to set different profiles for working hours and non-working hours and over weekends. The solution maintains an audit trail of the savings; system wise and cumulative. And other features too.

We have been propagating this philosophy over the past one year !!! But... "it will not work for us because ...". Let us see some consciousness and commitment from these very large organizations and we believe that it would automatically percolate to the individuals.

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