Verdiem Optimizes for Intel platforms to deliver Energy Efficiency

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2007

Innovative Alliance Utilizes SURVEYOR(TM) Power-Management Software With Intel vPro Processor Technology

SEATTLE -- Intel and Verdiem, the Seattle-based software developer that manages and measures power usage for PC networks, today announced an eco-effective partnership that will boost enterprise-wide energy efficiency. Under the agreement, Verdiem will enhance its award-winning SURVEYOR power-management software by supporting Intel vPro processor technology, enabling Verdiem SURVEYOR to update policies and manage power states more effectively across the enterprise.

Communicating with Remote PC Networks

This innovative hardware-software combination will allow enterprise IT managers to easily control PCs across entire network segments - even if the power is off or its operating system is down. This allows IT managers to transition systems to low power states during non-peak times but maintain the ability to provide maintenance and patching when necessary.

"Our partnership with Intel gives technology managers the ability to actively maintain their remote networks while increasing energy efficiency at the same time," says Kevin Klustner, Verdiem's CEO. "The Intel vPro platform offers SURVEYOR a very robust enterprise-wide solution on which to operate."

Adds Gregory Bryant, Vice President of the Digital Enterprise Group, as well as General Manager of the Digital Office Platform Division at Intel: "Intel vPro processor technology gives IT managers a broad set of tools to increase the security and management of PCs. When used with Verdiem's SURVEYOR software, IT managers will realize increased energy efficiency with the combination of software based power policy-management and Intel's most advanced architecture."

Measuring IT Energy Efficiency

Intel vPro processor technology-based PCs provide additional system status and health information to IT managers. Looking to the future, Verdiem will eventually collect and pull energy usage data from vPro systems and prepare reports that measure and aggregate their energy usage.

Verdiem's Environmental Commitment

By placing PCs and their monitors into low-power states whenever they're not in use, SURVEYOR can significantly decrease thermal loads, reduce microprocessor draw and make devices run quieter through less frequent fan operation without decreasing productivity.

The average PC consumes 600 kWh annually, but up to two-thirds of that electricity is wasted supply because most PCs are running at full power when no one is present. On average, SURVEYOR lowers energy consumption for each PC by one third per year.

This is well worth noting, because running a 5,000-PC network, for example, pumps about 6.65 million pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere a year. That's the equivalent of 475 mid-size vehicles driving on the road for a 12 month-period. If SURVEYOR were used with the same 5,000-PC network, it could cancel out the equivalent of CO2emissions from 110 mid-size vehicles for a year.