Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 @ 10:18 AM
Congratulations to JouleX Co-Founder and Chief Architect Josef Brunner who is invited to the Deutsche Telekom Innovation Day to discuss and present the several projects regarding JouleX and Deutsche Telekom working together to develop significantly lower energy costs and to enhance the sustainability efforts at Deutsche Telekom.
The Innovation Day is more than an event; it is an incubator for cooperation with strategic partners from all over the world.
Read more here.
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Tue, Aug 24, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
This week, on August 27, 2010, over 4,800 people have already pledged to turn off their IT devices to help save energy. You can sign up to participate at http://poweritdown.org.
The organizers point out that “Just by turning off your computer, monitor and printer — and any other peripherals — when you leave work for the day, you can help save tens of thousands of costly kilowatt hours.”
All of us here at JouleX support the efforts of Power IT Down Day. We invite all of our blog readers to join in on Friday. We also want to add some suggestions to and wanted to add a few other ideas to help reduce the IT energy consumption in the enterprise… for FREE:
The Top 10 Power Management Tips to help enterprises power down IT and save energy are as follows:
- Ascertain Power Consumption. Identify and pinpoint the top enterprise network power consumers and then accelerate a hardware refresh program based on the energy savings.
- Implement Energy Automation: Automatically power down all end-user devices such as PCs, MACs, IP phones, and monitors.
- Reduce Carbon Footprint of Printers. By using a carbon footprint calculator for printing, estimate printer energy, paper usage, consolidation opportunities and estimate carbon and cost implications. Hewlett-Packard offers a free calculator at (http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/ecological-printing-solutions/carbon-footprint-calc.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USE )
- Identify Under-utilized Equipment: Identify under-utilized PCs and servers consuming the most power. These PCs and servers represent an excellent opportunity for virtualization.
- Boost Leed Certification. Increase LEED certification by actively monitoring energy consumption of the current IT infrastructure.
- Decrease Power Usage in Embedded Systems. Work to design systems, such as those with Intel’s latest embedded processors and chipsets, to automatically adjust the power state to use only the energy required by the workload. (http://www.intel.com/embedded/technology/powermanagement.ht )
- Implement Location-based Policies: Automatically power up and down all end-user devices using location-based policies such as by GPS location or via a building’s security badge management system.
- Power Down Idle Presentation Servers During Off Business Hours. Simply powering off these servers during "off business hours" can save 30 to 50 percent of server farm power consumption. Companies can take advantage of a free Citrix PowerSmart Utility (http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/Citrix+PowerSmart+Utility+for+Presentation+Server+%28Beta%2 ) to do this.
- Set Carbon Reduction Goals: As a company, identify a goal for reducing energy costs and carbon footprint within a certain time period.
- Take the JouleX Energy Challenge. Take the first step in understanding toward responsible energy consumption by gaining real-time understanding of energy usage and wasted costs. To qualify, visit http://www.joulex.net/joulex-challenge/
Leveraging these ideas will help corporate IT staffs to gain control of their energy consumption and save both on carbon emissions and energy costs.
Helpful Links:
Power IT Down Day Registration http://poweritdown.org
JouleX Energy Challenge http://www.joulex.net/joulex-challenge/
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 @ 08:19 AM
Daniel Krauss of Forrester recently blogged about an upcoming reserach report and released some interesting information:
"My next report will give a comprehensive overview of the sustainability consulting services landscape for which I interviewed 25 service providers. As part of this research, I asked the providers about the split of their revenues and clients, both now and what they expect in the future, by each of the key segments we identified above. On average, about 50% of current revenues and client projects are comprised of green IT, nearly 30% in IT for green, and 20% in green business. Interesting however is the change which the providers see in the next three years, with the percentage of green IT falling to about 40%, and gradual increases in IT for green and green business (see figure below)."
To read his full blog post, click here.
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Mon, Aug 02, 2010 @ 01:58 PM
According to a report released July 2010 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the following 10 companies are the largest purchasers of Green energy:
- Intel Corporation - 1,433,200,000 (kWh)
- Kohl's Department Stores - 1,367,376,000 (kWh)
- Whole Foods Market - 817,657,623 (kWh)
- City of Houston, TX - 438,000,000 (kWh)
- Dell Inc. - 431,058,000 (kWh)
- Johnson & Johnson - 416,510,688 (kWh)
- Cisco Systems, Inc. - 400,996,000 (kWh)
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 400,000,000 (kWh)
- U.S. Air Force - 339,660,392 (kWh)
- City of Dallas, TX - 333,659,840 (kWh)
To read the full report click here.
Posted by Mike Noonan on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 @ 08:06 AM
Google is taking on the elimination of their own carbon footprint. According to a recent blog post from Google,
"We just completed a substantial 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement that allows us to take responsibility for our footprint and foster true growth in the renewable energy sector. On July 30 we will begin purchasing the clean energy from 114 megawatts of wind generation at the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility in Iowa at a predetermined rate for 20 years. Incorporating such a large amount of wind power into our portfolio is tricky, but this power is enough to supply several data centers."
Read the full blog post.
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 11:12 AM
JouleX is proud to announce that is has joined forces with Cisco and has become a Registered Cisco Developer. As a member of the Cisco Developer Network, JouleX is provided more open access to Cisco technologies as well as expanded and enhanced resources to help support every phase of the JouleX development and business cycles. The partnership also provides JouleX with better Cisco-related development systems and processes, and clear paths for access to resources and advancement.
To learn more about other JouleX partnerships, click here.
Posted by Mike Noonan on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 @ 11:14 AM
We are pleased to announce that JouleX Energy Manager 2.1 (JEM) is now shipping. JEM is now even better than before!
We added over 100 changes/enhancements to make JEM even more powerful:
- Granular User Management and User Roles
- Major enhancements for reporting
- Powerful Online Technical Resource Information
- Dynamic Energy Prices Support
- New Asset Connectors Added
- Grouping of Asset Connectors
- “Tweet My Savings” (show the world what you are saving your company!)
- And much, much more!
If you want to see it in action yourself, check out our latest video that uses JEM 2.1. Click here.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more contact us today.
Email: sales@joulex.net
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 @ 09:04 AM
Watch JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) in this fun and informative video. In it, VP of Product Management Glenn Gaudet & JouleX Sustainability Officer Mark Davidson discuss what JEM is and show how it works.
It's our way of allowing people that are interested in the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) to demo and experience JEM without installing the solution in their environment.
By watching this video, you will:
- Understand how JEM works
- Explore the admin GUI
- Discover and manage devices
- Set up policies
- Create reports
- And much more!
Warning! Many people get hooked on JEM within minutes. However, with the up to 60% of savings JEM brings to your company's IT energy bill, we think it is worth the addiction!
Click Here to visit our demo video page.
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 @ 05:34 PM
Sustainability and Green IT have become watchwords for executive management, corporate IT and facilities departments. Major solution providers and vendors have attached a “green” story or messaging around how their solutions will fit into a “green strategy”.
As corporate management and government agencies explore the benefits of having a green strategy, they soon realize that the benefits go far beyond good public relations. An effective green strategy can significantly reduce energy consumption and thus have an immediate positive impact on the bottom line.
JouleX is pleased to provide this FREE Buyer’s Guide to help companies better understand how to select solutions such as JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) in order to transform energy monitoring and radically reduce energy consumption.
This 21 page Buyer's Guide includes:
- What to consider
- Installation Considerations
- Asset Synchronization
- Remote Energy Management
- Legacy Devices
- Policy Management
- Controlling Power State
- Exception Management
- Energy Simulation
- Reporting
- And, much more
Download your FREE Buyer's Guide now.
Posted by Glenn Gaudet on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
Yesterday, Matthew Wheeland wrote a great article on Power PC Management in GreenBiz.com called, 10 Things to Know About PC Power Management. In it he lays out ten things that all IT managers should know. While we at JouleX do not believe that all PC Power Management solutions are the same, Matthew makes some excellent points. Here is is list of ten:
- Screen savers are not power management.
- PC power management can save you big money.
- Installing a power management system can be free. Although it sounds too good to be true, there are a number of rebate programs available -- mostly through utility companies -- that will earn you a set amount of money for each PC you install power management software on.
- PC power management starts saving money right away.
- There are many different vendors.
- PC power management is a "set it and forget it" project.
- Power management works without disturbing end users.
- Start small, then move big.
- Executive support is critical to successful PC power management.
- You can do it yourself, but there's a catch. Every operating system comes with energy management tools pre-installed -- although only recently have they been shipped with those controls activated.
For larger companies, the savings are immense when a PC Power Management solution is deployed. JouleX takes this a step further by managing the power of not just PCs but also all of the devices and systems connected to the corporate network.