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AS OF 1/7/2009 10:04AM EST

Triumfant Creates Power Management Product
By Jeff Feinman

August 21, 2008 — Rockville, Md.-based Triumfant has created a power management product that could potentially save a company US$1 million per year in electricity costs.

The Green IT Power Management Option Pack, released Tuesday, can help organizations save energy costs by automatically detecting when a computer is out of compliance and adjusting it to the correct power settings based on an organization’s energy management policies. With this product, users don’t have to keep their computers on at all times, so IT can conduct maintenance during off-hours, Triumfant executives said.

“The tool enforces any IT policy that is desired by a company,” said John Prisco, Triumfant’s CEO. “It does this with its patent-pending anomaly-based detection engine.”

The Green IT Power Management Option Pack manages Windows XP and Windows Vista power configuration settings, which enable IT administrators to establish a desired plan in a distributed computing environment. Its power state management capability automatically sets computers to low or no power usage during scheduled intervals, Triumfant said. There is also a Wake-on-LAN feature that automatically returns computers that have been shut down to a ready state, for maintenance.

“The Wake-On-LAN feature permits routine IT updates and patches to occur without having to leave computers on all the time,” Prisco said. “Savings of approximately $60 per computer per year are achievable.”

The product comes with configurable filters, policy templates and reports that measure the results of power management policies to identify computer configurations that aren’t compliant with policies used by the company. Some of those policies include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Federal Desktop Core Configuration, Payment Card Industry compliance, or a company’s custom policy.

Prisco said that the Green IT Power Management Option Pack is part of Triumfant’s Resolution Manager product suite, which fixes unwanted changes in desktops, laptops and servers before they create security or compliance risks, or impact user productivity.

Triumfant said that in a 10,000-workstation company or organization that has machines on all the time, the annual cost for electricity can be over $13 million. Using the Green IT Power Management Option Pack, organizations can save upwards of $1 million per year in electricity bills. Total savings can be even greater with associated reduction of air condition and tax benefits for energy conservation, the company said.

“The costs of non-compliance with power management policies can be just as high as the costs associated with non-compliance with security or regulatory policies,” Prisco said. “Organizations can easily add power management to their Triumfant platform to monitor their PC environment and ensure compliance with all critical policies.”

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