24
City of Miami: Situation
•
Upgrading 900 PCs and wanted “native” (Microsoft)
solutions for PC power management, patching, app
deployment, backup and remote control
•
2,800 desktop & notebook PCs
on a 4-year replacement cycle
o
Mostly Dell GX620 and HP 7900
models
•
PCs were left powered on 24/7
for patching, backups, remote
control
Marco, tell us about your IT environment, and, in particular, how you came to ID CPM as a major opportunity?
You did some pretty extensive power metering of your PCs: tell us what you learned about putting computers into sleep mode?