CASE STUDY

PC POWER MANAGEMENT AND STREAMLINED

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

21,000 TONNE
REDUCTION OF
CARBON
FOOTPRINT BY
US DEPARTMENT
OF STATE
US Department of States Efficient IT initiatives
bring early success, foundation for continued
savings

Challenges

Solutions

Benefits

To support the Departments Greening

Diplomacy Initiative
To comply with EO13514
To reduce energy costs across the IT
estate
To minimize disruption to DoS
operations
Proactively maintain the security of
desktops and laptops as multiple

NightWatchman for PC power

management and Nomad for
streamlined systems management

Significant reduction of carbon

footprint (21,000 tonnes per year) by
eliminating power waste
At-a-glance high-level view of power
savings
Automated out-of-hours patch
deployment and network scanning
saving administrator time and creating
no impact on end users

remote sites

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Secure delivery of Operating System

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Leveraging Existing Systems Management

Without Affecting User Productivity
About the US Department of State
The United States Department of
State (DoS) is the United States
federal executive department
responsible for international relations
of the United States, equivalent to the
foreign ministries of other countries.

The Department was created in 1789
and was the first executive
department established. Today it
covers more than 50 domestic
facilities, and has over 250 US
embassies, consulates and passport
agencies which in total account for
88,986 workstations.

Secretary Clinton in her 2009 Earth Day Speech identified that the State Departments
computer services take up about 3% of its building space but consume 40% of the
electricity load. She said, We are working with a team from the IT department to
narrow that ratio, but one thing we could all do is turn off our computers. That actually
would save energy.
Federal mandates assess agencies on a variety of sustainability areas, including energy
management. Historically, the Department mandated that all 88,986 desktops at its
468 worldwide sites be kept on 24/7 to ensure regular security scanning, maintenance,
and patching. However, to comply with federal mandates (such as EO13514) and
support the Departments Greening Diplomacy Initiative, the Department launched an
agency-wide initiative to eliminate power waste across 100 percent of its workstation
computers.

One thing we could all do is turn off our computers. That actually
would save energy.
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State
Operating under a distributed deployment model, the Department needed a flexible
tool that worked with its existing systems management platform (ConfigMgr) to
accommodate the specialized needs of each individual, while eliminating duplication
of efforts. After an extensive review, it purchased NightWatchman Enterprise to
reduce power consumption costs and carbon emissions through scheduled shutdown
of workstations.
The Department minimized the amount of new hardware required by leveraging the
existing, centralized ConfigMgr infrastructure to deploy NightWatchman across the
Departments entire global network. This has significantly lowered both energy
consumption and CO2 emissions without impacting user productivity. The robust
reporting capabilities built into NightWatchman Enterprise empower the Department
to accurately document both power and carbon consumption savings through a highly
customized dashboard, Enterprise View.
The WakeUp agent (the Wake-on-LAN component of NightWatchman) enables the
Departments workstations to be powered on for patching, scanning (security,
ConfigMgr, patch, virus, etc.), and software installation. These tasks are performed
during non-business hours, minimizing impact to normal day-to-day business
operations and user productivity. Additionally, WakeUp provides proactive health
checks and automatically fixes common issues with SCCM client agents.

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Seamless Integration for Maximum Effect to

Reduce Carbon and Save Energy
About NightWatchman
Accurate reporting with credible
savings predictions

NightWatchman integrates seamlessly with the Departments systems management

platform (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager) and initiatives, including
centralized patch management, continuous monitoring, risk scoring, and compliance
and vulnerability scanning.

Safe shutdown which never impacts

user productivity

This compatibility provides a cost-effective, yet highly powerful opportunity for the
Department, while also bolstering the Departments Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) scores, by ensuring machines are accessible for ongoing scans at all

Automatic wakes and patches every

PC - 100 percent patch success rate
even out of hours

times. Additionally, this single enterprise solution eliminated duplication of effort for
individual sites to develop, implement and manage their own solutions, while still
allowing the flexibility to address each sites individual needs.

Web WakeUp enables users to

remotely access their PC at any time

Since deployment in November 2010, NightWatchman has led to savings in energy,

cost, and time for the Department. It has been widely accepted by the Departments
extensive, global user base for its automation, flexibility, and ease of support, as well as
its intuitive reporting features.

Supports secure environments

PC Estate Profiler monitors and
reports on hardware utilization across
a PC estate.

The Department also needed an effective way to proactively maintain the security of
desktops and laptops at remote sites. Based in sensitive locations globally with no IT
staff, these sites faced tremendous network constraints. The remote sites relied on
bandwidth-challenged 512Kbps satellite links to deliver 400+ MB packages to
desktops and deploying servers simply was not a feasible option. In the Spring of 2011,
the Department further expanded its initiative with 1E by deploying Nomad Enterprise.
Using spare network bandwidth, Nomad securely delivers Operating System
upgrades, software deployments and patches safely and securely to thousands of PCs
and servers day or night with zero disruption. This removes the need for branch servers
or desk-side visits reducing existing server footprint and administrative overhead.

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