Autonomic Software's ANSA Platinum Power Conservation Offers Greenest Option for Controlling IT Energy Costs, Carbon Footprint.Combination of Energy Savings and Utility Rebates Creates ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). 'Out of the Box' - Total Savings to Exceed Cost of Software in First Year DANVILLE, Calif. -- Autonomic autonomic /au·to·nom·ic/ (aw?to-nom´ik) not subject to voluntary control. See under system. au·to·nom·ic adj. 1. Functionally independent; not under voluntary control. Software, Inc., a provider of automated security and network management solutions today announced the greenest solution available for network administrators charged with controlling energy expenditures and the IT carbon footprint A carbon footprint is the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted over the full life cycle of a product or service. . Included as part of Autonomic Software's ANSA ANSA - Advanced Network Systems Architecture Platinum, the company's Power Conservation software lets managers set energy policies for PCs, servers and other networked devices, and to automatically implement these policies from a single user interface, regardless of the size of the organization. Autonomic's Power Conservation software allows companies to eliminate waste and inefficiency in their energy usage, thereby reducing their carbon footprint. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. energy savings figures from the Department of Energy's EnergyStar website1, an enterprise with ten thousand networked PCs can anticipate savings in excess of $1 million per year. Even for companies with only a few dozen PCs, savings will be significant. In addition, most utility companies serving major US cities offer rebates for companies that lower their energy consumption. The combination of savings and rebates will result in many companies recouping the investment in the ANSA Platinum Suite in less than one year. 1[http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_manag ement] (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) "Autonomic's Power Conservation has given us the ability to reduce our energy usage and carbon footprint, while still effectively and automatically managing and securing all our desktops and servers," said Brian DeLuca, IT Director for Bank of Nevada. "Our energy costs are dropping, and we are now applying for our first utility rebates based on those savings." "Adding this new capability to ANSA Platinum allows our customers to easily integrate power conservation with the security and system management processes we've already automated for them," said Tony Gigliotti, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Autonomic Software. "Energy costs are just another of the growing list of cost categories IT managers and executives are tasked with managing. We've simply extended our technology to turn energy savings into a highly automated, green, policy-driven, systemic process." Autonomic's Power Conservation creates policy-driven power management of distributed computers. In addition, it: * Controls Windows power profile settings * Scales from a single PC to an entire global enterprise * Provides fine-grained controls for hibernation, standby, subsystem-only shut down * Offers easy-to-use control policies that target groups, domains, any category or group * Includes distributed Wake-On-LAN functionality that synchronizes all ANSA systems maintenance processes with Power Conservation * Contains a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , intuitive graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to and dashboard-driven policy-setting * Enables comprehensive , multi-level reporting About ANSA Platinum ANSA Platinum allows IT professionals to exert and maintain complete, automated control of many critical, time-consuming network management functions, including patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique , asset management, configuration management, software distribution, and power conservation. The result is a rapid increase in network availability, usability, manageability, maintainability, and security. About Autonomic Software, Inc. Autonomic Software provides automated management and security solutions. Founded in 2003, the company helps customers create a continuously protected environment by combining patch management, asset management, configuration management, software distribution, and power management. Autonomic's products are available through our nationwide reseller program or direct sales. Autonomic Software also offers on-demand hosted solutions in the SMB market See SMB. as well. For more information on Autonomic Software's products and services, call 925-820-8020 or visit the company's website at http://www.autonomic-software.com |
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