Network-based Green IT initiatives involve quantifying operational costs and savings opportunities for network devices, servers, and workstations. This information is used to develop corporate Green IT strategies, manage actual program progress, and deliver tangible results through flexible, compelling reports.
Eye of the Storm provides a Green IT Perspective application to help design, implement and track corporate Green IT initiatives. It includes a customizable dashboard and integration area for policies, reports, reference materials, real-time statistics, communities, wikis, and other materials to keep employees knowledgeable and green initiatives on track.
| Challenge | Entuity Solution |
| Identify and develop Green IT plan. | Automatic discovery of IT infrastructure assets including utilization. Accurate inventory data is available to map out devices, servers and workstations to be monitored. |
| Validate metrics according to Corporate Shutdown policy | IT managers can monitor which departments are complying or ignoring shutdown policies along with their associated costs through real-time dashboard alerts or reports. |
| Rank power consumption per device for energy efficiency savings potential. | EYE proactively ranks network devices based on energy consumption, making it possible to highlight older devices with poor energy efficiency ratings to be put on a replacement schedule. |
| Gain visibility into server capacity levels that support critical business services. | Identifies operating characteristics of servers , providing insight into inefficiencies for better application deployment, resource allocation, etc. |
