Kaseya: Power management key to being Green

Managed services provider Kaseya is advocating the Green benefits of its latest IT automation software offering to the channel, Kaseya 2008. CRN's online journalist Mitchell Smith investigates.

The vendor claimed the software utilises hardware-based remote monitoring technology built into the latest generation of energy efficient Intel vPro processors, which minimises power consumption.

Tim Dicksinson, Kaseya country manager A/NZ, told CRN that the company sees power reduction as the major area where businesses can make a significant contribution to Green IT.

“Being able to automate the control of your IT resources is really where Green computing comes into play. People talk about Green computing but it's all about reducing your consumption of electricity,” he said.

The Kaseya 2008 software allows partner companies to remotely enforce Green power policies across distributed IT infrastructure, said Dickinson. By using vPro templates, the program is able to shutdown a network after business hours, restart it for backup purposes during the evening, and then deactivate the machines until the next morning.

With the inclusion of Intel vPro technology in the latest PC and Mac processors, Kesaya asserted that the 2008 offering enables the enforcement of power management in the majority of computers deployed across business networks.

The latest version of the software has been designed for easy adoption by both the SMB and enterprise markets.

Andrew Doull, Kaseya technical services manager said: “These sorts of technologies have traditionally been used to some extent in enterprise organisations, but we’re pushing the scale out and down to SMB providers as well. This obviously provides benefits in terms of cost savings for small businesses, but also in terms of reducing the overall carbon footprint of Australian businesses.”

The real-time monitoring function of a deployed Kaseya 2008 setup can also reduce the need for engineers to commute to customer sites to manually repair and update machines. Less time on the road has the roll-on effect of reducing travel-related carbon emissions.

Dickinson told CRN that Kaseya has also taken a strong approach to internal management of Green issues. “We’re very much a virtual organisation where we communicate the majority of time through Skype and video conferencing, so we have a very low carbon footprint overall in the company,” he said.