Faronics Power Save

With energy costs on the rise, it is likely that most businesses are looking to implement long-term strategies that can help them reduce overall energy consumption organization-wise.

Faronics Power Save is a utility designed to help you implement an effective energy consumption policy that can save your company money in the long run.

While the installer itself is quite small, the wizard downloads the additional data once you start the setup, an action that can take up to several minutes, depending on your connection speed.

It is necessary to mention that you need to download the Faronics Core Console as well because the app cannot install itself onto a workstation. The program can be accessed and configured from this console, which comes with a clean, well-organized and modern interface.

Configuring the application and adding the workstations to monitor is anything but intuitive. Then again, perhaps this is why you can access the Help menu from almost all features available.

The role of the program is to monitor the status of the workstations and shutdown the ones that are not in use to conserve energy. In fact, you can implement shutdown and wake up events for all the computers you manage.

The idea here is that the app checks the status of a computer based on the inputs it received from the mouse, keyboard, running software, CPU, disk and network before it takes any action.

On a side note, before you start using Faronics Power Save, you can run the Audit mode function and make predictions or set goals as to how much savings you can make, a feature that can be handy when you want to get an idea as to where you stand.

Given its features and overall functionality, it is clear that Faronics Power Save addresses the IT department of medium-sized and large companies. On the other hand, let us not forget that large companies have various requirements and this is why they go for custom software solutions.