1. Energy Smart Client Solutions
Stephen Miller – Enterprise Technologist November 28, 2018

2. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: Rising concerns for IT and business
Spanning from desktop to datacenter
Ever-escalating energy costs
Tighter budgets than ever
Global environmental pressures and regulatory issues

3. ENERGY CONSUMPTION: It’s not just about the datacenter
Energy costs =
Power to run the system
Power to cool the system
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POWER
INSTALLED CLIENT BASE
COST

4. OPTIMIZED HARDWARE: Closer Look at 80+ Power Supplies
In every client system, some energy is lost to heat
Previous-generation power supplies transferred only about 73% of energy to productivity
POWER
INSTALLED CLIENT BASE
PRODUCTIVITY OUTPUT

5. OPTIMIZED HARDWARE: Closer Look at 80+ Power Supplies
New wide-ranging desktop power supplies are 10–12% more efficient than the previous generation
POWER IN
(110 or 220V)
INSTALLED CLIENT BASE
PRODUCTIVITY OUTPUT

6. OPTIMIZED SOFTWARE
Software Settings (timeouts for systems, hard drives and monitors)
Policy-based power management can save even more
Systems that are off or in sleep mode use less energy
Advanced systems management enables remote power management, regardless of OS state, across large client install bases

7. OPTIMIZED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
How much could you save?
Compound benefits
One desktop saving roughly $75/year
x 500 clients = $37,500/year
x 5,000 clients = $375,000/year

8. OPTIMIZED SOFTWARE: Best-practice example
The future lies with policy-based power management
Dell’s implementation
Best-of-breed tools
Dell shuts down 50,000 client systems worldwide
12 hrs at night, Mon–Fri
48 hours total over the weekend
Measuring power consumption by system, facility to facility, every 15 minutes
Also measuring cooling system consumptions (powered-down systems are cooler)
Third-party power management solution
Works with the standard/common environment (Windows, SMS)
Reporting/management functions to measure and analyze results/savings
Avoids impacts to patches, security, end user productivity
Estimated results for Dell’s implementation
$1.8M/year saved in energy costs
13 Million kW/hrs saved
8,500 tons of CO2 emissions avoided per year

9. Asset Recovery & Recycling Programs

10. END-TO-END COMMITMENT TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY
PARTNERING TO INNOVATE NEW SOLUTIONS
PARTNERING TO INNOVATE NEW SOLUTIONS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME For more information, please visit Dell.com/EnergySmart
TO NEW STANDARDS AND MEASUREMENTS TO EVALUATE THEM
AND NEW STANDARDS AND MEASUREMENTS TO EVALUATE THEM