Reducing the Cost of Operation

Various analyses have determined that 25% of workstations in german enterprises are never powered down in off-hours and weekends . Up to 15% of corporate energy cost may however be saved if this unproductive operation of equipment is systematically avoided.

The reasons behind PCs and other office eqiopment not being switched off outside of office hours vary. Users resent long startup times when they begin work; Starting and logging on to various applications may be time-consuming, and in some companies working time is measured beginning when the respective working station is fully running. Devices that are kept running however, not only incur avoidable cost, but considerable security risks as well.

Devices kept running and being online overnight may be prone to unnoticed attacks , distribute viruses or carry out „Distributed-Denial-of-Service“ attacks as part of a BOT net.