OUTsurance night watchman Select ® Enterprise Patch Management to improve with Wake on LAN Power Management and its 2000 PC

OUTsurance choose a night watchman ® Enterprise patch management to improve with Wake on LAN and power the PC 2000

Cape Town (PRWeb) November 10, 2011

1E (http://www.1e.com), the global leader in efficient IT solutions, today announced that it selected by OUTsurance (http://www.outsurance.co.za), patch management and improve energy conservation on the estate of 2000 PCs. The deployment will be handled by 1E preferred business partner, sustainableIT (http://www.sustainableit.co.za).

“Our people will often not restart their machines. In some cases the machine rebooted for over 50 days, which was clear and performance fabric that impact. It is when we realize that enough is enough and we need to do something, “said Simon Faragher, OUTsurance project manager.

“We chose Enterprise ® night watchman from 1e, because we have a proven solution for a reliable patch management needs. Our number one goal is our PCs are healthy and available for love, while guaranteeing the user disruption , so it was the obvious choice, “continued Faragher

Wakeup from 1e is a feature of the night watchman ® Enterprise, the burden of administrative support reduced while maintaining Computer Health ™ to ensure that users always productive. This is a Wake-on LAN solution that the rapid deployment of patches across a network enables out-of hours and the automatic routine maintenance and software distribution.

“The C02 savings we are making as a result of automatically shutting down our computers is an additional reason for our purchase decision. We are 145 metric tons a year to save – this is the equivalent emissions of the average annual electricity consumption of 20 houses, “concludes Faragher

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first ran a test on the 1678 machines over a period of 20 days. The solution helped the insurer to see that 33% of desktops and 3% of the monitors are left on overnight, wasting energy unnecessarily. It also showed that 29% of the desktops and 4% of the monitors are left on, but only 11% of the computers are actually used during the weekend.

Tim James, director sustainableIT, said: “It is rewarding to see the unfolding of the night watchman Enterprise OUTsurance helps his immediate needs manageability of the patch on the organization to improve to solve, save money and contribute positively to its own corporate C02 emissions reduction. ”

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