London-based green IT consultancy Living Life Green this week announced that it has secured an agreement with US PC management software specialist Verdiem that will see the company resell its software in the UK.
The consultancy is to offer Verdiem's Surveyor software suite, which provides firms with the ability to automatically turn off and on PCs when they are not in use. The technology also features monitoring and reporting software that allows companies to track the energy, money and carbon emissions saved as a result of turning off PCs that would otherwise be left on overnight and at weekends.
Living Life Green operations director Graeme Scott said that the technology was likely to prove popular with the growing number of IT departments concerned about energy costs and carbon emissions. He added that the software's ability to provide firms with documentary evidence of energy savings would also help the IT department contribute to companies' overall environmental strategies and better position them to cope with "inevitable [green IT] legislation that will be passed in the UK sooner rather than later".
Living Life Green estimates that an organisation with 10,000 PCs on its network could save in the region of £200,000 per year on energy costs, while reducing annual CO2 emissions by approximately 1,250 tons as a result of using Surveyor. It claims that the average return on investment period is approximately 12 months.
Verdiem has enjoyed considerable success in the US where it recently inked a major technology alliance with HP. It claims to have saved customers over $51m (£25.6m) and cut carbon emissions by 1.5m tons.
The company is now committed to expanding globally as it seeks to take on UK-based rival 1E and its NightWatchman PC m anagement software package.
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