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Cisco taps Verdiem to manage power for PCs, network gear

PC energy management company Verdiem said on Tuesday it has signed a deal with Cisco to create software for managing PCs and networking equipment from Cisco.

Under an original equipment manufacturing arrangement, Verdiem's energy-management software will be sold as Cisco's EnergyWise Orchestrator and be able to track and report electricity usage from IP phones, wireless access points, edge switches, and other devices that run over the Power over Ethernet protocol.

Verdiem's software gives IT managers a centralized way to set power policies for networked PCs, such as putting PCs on standby after a certain amount of time … Read more

Verdiem dashboard displays PC power savings

Verdiem on Monday is expected to release an add-on to its PC power-management software that gives people a customizable view of energy savings and carbon emissions reductions.

The Seattle-based company said that the software, called Sustainability Dashboard, offers a visual display for a number of metrics, such as savings over time, and translates that into the equivalent of cars removed from the road or trees planted.

It works with Surveyor, a program that lets IT departments automatically put computers on standby mode on a schedule. For example, it can turn off PCs at night that are left on or put … Read more

Energy saver

Anyone who wants to save a little money while helping conserve energy and protect the environment will want to check out this free monitoring application.

Verdiem Edison has a simple, easy-to-understand display with tabbed functions. This free program, which requires e-mail registration before use, rides the latest "green" craze, as it touts the capability to save money by scheduling times to hibernate and shut down your computer. While these basic functions already are enabled by default in Windows, Verdiem Edison adds two different time settings; work time and nonwork time. While working, users may not want to power … Read more

Verdiem's Edison helps you get green

This blog has been updated with the correct default kilowatt-per-hour rate.

Sometimes it's the little things that count, especially when it comes to your carbon footprint.

When it comes to PC usage, those little things include turning off your computer when you're not using it. Enter Verdiem, with its free download called Edison, which it is offering to consumers to help with their PC power management at home.

Verdiem has a similar product for large enterprise customers--and they of course charge for it. But Edison is free, and available at the company Web site, or from Microsoft.com/environment. … Read more

Edison: Free energy-saving PC software

Although power management software has been around for years, there's clearly room for improvement, particularly with rising energy prices and environmental awareness.

Start-up Verdiem on Wednesday released software called Edison that makes it easy for people to schedule when a PC goes into a low power consumption mode at home or at work.

Verdiem's CEO, Kevin Klustner, is scheduled to highlight Edison and PC energy consumption during a conference call with Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Robert Benard, and Intel's Lorie Wigle, president of the Climate Savers computing industry consortium.

PCs can consume as much as 10 … Read more

Verdiem: Nyquil for energy-hog PCs

Talk about low-hanging fruit.

Verdiem on Wednesday is expected to release an update of its software that monitors desktop Windows PCs and puts them in low-power mode when they're idle. A PC usually wastes about two-thirds of the energy it uses.

The application also gathers data on energy usage of PCs on a network so that companies can measure their energy savings and reductions of carbon emissions.

Renewable energy sources are flashy but tend to be more expensive than conventional power.

By contrast, energy-efficiency technologies typically have a quicker payback while eliminating waste.

Verdiem's Surveyor application can pay … Read more