Cutting IT Energy Use With Smart Power Management
22.05.12
Most large organizations keep the hundreds or thousands of desktop computers and servers on their premises running 24/7. While many machines and monitors are trained to go into “sleep” mode after a pre-set period of inactivity, waking up to the touch of a keyboard or the shake of a mouse to allow a user to go back to work, machine-based settings can be inefficient for a number of reasons.
Most large organizations today are heavily networked – each desktop machine tied to every other server and desktop machine in the company – meaning that across the network, there is always something active going on that may prevent the other networked machines from going to sleep. While the computer may appear to have gone to sleep, with the monitor black and in “standby” mode and the computer seemingly idle, the computer may not truly be in sleep mode. Researchers have carried out operational testing that revealed that at least half of a company’s computers fail to “sleep” when they should be. Microsoft’s Windows operating system – which runs most of the world’s company computers – is particularly affected, and there is even a name for it: “Windows Insomnia.”
Source: ThomasNet Industrial News Room