About 1E
1E helps its clients reduce IT costs and environmental footprint. Our expertise in providing leading-edge automation solutions, which reduce complexity, management costs and power consumption, has earned us the trust and confidence of over 12 million licensed users across 1,100 businesses in 42 countries worldwide.
Since its inception 11 years ago, 1E has been committed to helping our customers cut operating costs while reducing their environmental footprint. 1E pioneered PC power management and continues as the global market leader with its flagship product, NightWatchman®. Today, NightWatchman is deployed on 4 million PCs worldwide. Since its launch over 9 years ago, it has cumulatively saved organizations over USD $360 million(ii) in energy costs. This reduction in energy usage has prevented 2.7 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide(iii) from entering the atmosphere the equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of half a million passenger vehicles(iv).
Our customers include AT&T, Allstate Insurance, CSC, Blue Cross, British Airways, Dell Inc., DWP, HSBC, ING Investment Management, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, Nestlé, SABMiller, Syngenta, the US Air Force on behalf of the Pentagon and Verizon Wireless. For further information, please visit www.1e.com
(i) Summarized calculation from report contents and references$4,400 x 4.75M unused servers = $20.9 bn(operational costs for unused servers)$5,323,760.64 x 365 days in 1 year = $1.9bn x 2(energy cost for running unused servers continuously for a year + cooling cost for running unused servers continuously for a year assuming a Power Usage Effectiveness value of 2, according to EPA average PUE at time of writing is 2.04)
(ii) Cumulative saving from 4 million licenses to date, average saving of $36 per PC per year
(iii) 381 kWh is approx saving per PC per year. MWh * 1.54 = thousands of pounds of CO2 (2007 emissions factor: EPA's Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) number for 2007)
(iv) One car produces 5.46 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions.
See: http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/refs.html#vehicles
- USA
- 1E Inc
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- Tel: 1 866 592 4214
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- 1E Inc
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- United Kingdom
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- email: info@1e.com
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