1E NightWatchman Server Revolutionizes Green IT

02 Nov 2009 @ 3:57 PM

1E NightWatchman Server Revolutionizes Green IT

On October 16th, 2009 1E released NightWatchman® Server Edition. This takes green IT to a whole different level by allowing companies to save on electricity, cooling, maintenance and software licensing by determining how much power your servers are consuming and then minimizing that power without impacting availability while also allowing you to easily identify servers that are under utilized by reporting each servers amount of Useful Work.

The main goals of NightWatchman Server is to

Identify Waste – measure power with software, how much Useful Work is happening?
Save – Reallocate, decommission, Drowsy Server®
Report – Money, energy, CO2

To do this we monitoring servers and classify the utilization into two categories, Useful Work or Useless Work we then report the details of the work centrally to allow administrators to decommission, virtualize, repurpose or consolidate servers.

And for servers that are doing Useful Work NightWatchman Server Edition can manage the power that each server uses during times when the server is not utilized, a term we coined called Drowsy Server® is when the servers various components are placed into a low power state. This allows us to lower the power being used by the server. While a server is in a Drowsy state at the first sign the server is needed the server is immediately restored back to fully on preventing any impact on the servers availability.

If this sounds interesting there are two more webinars coming up and if you are already a 1E customer you can contact your Business Manager or Solutions Engineer to setup a presentation.

Webinars on the 3rd and 12th of November

Andy Dominey has also created a SCOM 2007 R2 management pack for the NightWatchman Server Agent as well.