WM Software Corporation

Energy Star and WM Software

Environmentally responsible software

Environmental responsibility is important to us at WM Software. One of the best ways we can help make a positive impact on our environment is to help our customers' PCs consume less electricity. Being an Energy Star Partner assures you that WM Software solutions help lower your company's carbon footprint and save your company money.

To that end, WM Software's ShutdownPlus Green, ShutdownPlus Standard , and ShutdownPlus Professional software products are one of many simple ways our customers can be environmentally responsible and reduce their electricity costs at the same time by automatically powering off the computer, either through an automatic schedule or by the computer being idle for a period of time. Often users do not turn off their computer before leaving for the night. ShutdownPlus takes this responsibility off of the user and IT department and puts it into itself, ensuring the computer is using minimal or no power when the computer is not being used, tailored to a company's corporate energy policy or standards.

Saving money
Your servers - you need them running 24x7. ShutdownPlus can help all of the other computers, the desktop PCs, which far outnumber the servers in most companies. The power savings of turning off just one computer outside the normal 8hr workday equates to reducing CO2 emission by up to 30 kilograms per year - the equivalent of taking your car off the road for 7 days each year.

Average continuous power consumed per computer

$/kWh

Hours per day

Cost/month

Cost/year

kg of CO2 released (a)

Days of driving (b)

150 Watts

$0.12

24

$13.14

$157.68

47

11

150 Watts

$0.12

8

$4.38

$52.56

16

4

250 Watts

$0.12

24

$21.90

$262.80

79

18

250 Watts

$0.12

8

$7.30

$87.60

26

6

Take these settings and multiply them by the amount of computers in your organization and the compounded savings quickly add up, with an easy-to-justify cost/benefit model. This makes it possible for our energy-conscious customers to reduce their energy costs and save money.

ShutdownPlus is the solution
These are typical ways administrators can decrease their company's carbon footprint using ShutdownPlus Green, Standard, or Professional:

Configure the software to Shutdown, Standby, or Hibernate the computer at a specific time after working hours.
Configure the software to Shutdown, Standby, or Hibernate the computer if it is idle for a period of time after working hours.
Only detect if the computer is idle based on a timeframe or a user type (Administrator, Standard User)

Conclusion
There are a lot of desktop computer systems consuming a lot of electricity; if we can make a difference by helping to reduce the power consumption of just a small percentage of them, we believe we will have made a positive impact on the environment.

Large organizations with many desktop
computers can save money and be
even more environmentally responsible...

WM Software believes businesses benefit financially by continually improving their management of energy resources, and the environment benefits from reduced levels of related pollution. We are proud to offer services and products that may assist businesses who have committed to the goals of ENERGY STAR.

For more information, please see our ShutdownPlus Green, Standard, or Professional software. ShutdownPlus is licensed per computer with prices starting at $10 per license. Affordable, discounted, enterprise licensing is also available, as is a free 30-day fully functional evaluation license. Please contact our sales department for more information at 330-558-0501 or sales@wmsoftware.com.

a: Assumes 1.60 CO2 pounds per Kwatt/Hours/Year.
b: Assumes 1.60 Metric tons/year