1E is a company that can help businesses and other organizations save money by adopting environmentally friendly policies on their IT equipment. Recently,
1E CEO Sumir Karayi sat down with TMCnet CEO Rich Tehrani (
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Alert) to explain the renewed interest in green solutions, which eliminate waste in IT spending.
1E is a leader in software and services that improve IT efficiency by identifying and reducing costs and waste in hardware, software, energy and time.
Karayi estimates that over $1 billion has been saved so far. About half of that is in pure energy. That savings comes from reducing the amount of power consumed by its clients.
“We help our clients save a lot of money,” Karayi explains.
1E helps organizations figure out where there is waste in IT, such as servers not being used; power that can be turned off; or computers can be turned off at work after employees go home for the day.
One of their large customers is saving about $36 a year per computer by leaving the computer off when the user is not there.
In addition, 1E has features that allow employees to wake up their computers at work from home. Often, business users want to be able to access computers from home when they have to use it.
Some large organizations have over 300,000 computers, so the dollars add up. For example, when it comes to servers, about 15 percent of them do not doing anything useful, Karayi said based on a recent analysis.
“So let’s get rid of those servers,” he said. If all the servers that are not doing anything useful were gotten rid of, some $25 billion would be saved. Some $3.8 billion of that is in pure energy costs. The rest is in hardware, software and operating costs.
1E also is using software to replace servers.
In addition, 1E has already written its first iPhone (News - Alert) app, so as someone comes into work they can press a button on their iPhone and the computer will turn on.
1E has been around for 11 years. In fact, they pioneered Green IT, in terms of PC power management.
Five years ago, the interest from IT departments was minimal. IT departments actually questioned why they should do green projects when they didn’t see monetary savings.
But in the last three or four years, American firms, especially the large ones, actually saw the need for green projects, Karayi said.
“Most IT people actually see the need now (too),” Karayi said. Corporate boards have been implementing environmentally friendly policies, also.
Ed Silverstein is a TMCnet contributor. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Tammy Wolf
