Greener PCs for the Enterprise

  • Authors:
  • Bruce Nordman;Ken Christensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;University of South Florida

  • Venue:
  • IT Professional
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

PC energy use is a growing cost to enterprises, with most machines remaining fully powered on, even while idle, for most of the time. The Network Connectivity Proxy maintains network presence for PCs but lets them sleep while idle, thus saving energy and reducing total cost of ownership.