1E (company)

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1E

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legal form Private company
founding 1997
Seat London and New York
management Sumir Karayi (Founder and CEO )
Number of employees 220
Branch Information technology
Website https://www.1e.com/

1E is a software company based in the United Kingdom with offices in London , New York , Paris , Frankfurt am Main and Noida . The company develops automated software solutions that manage complexity, administrative costs and energy consumption . 1E has developed products that reduce the energy consumption of IT hardware such as PCs , monitors and servers .

history

1E was founded in 1997 by the three former Microsoft contractors Sumir Karayi , Phil Wilcock and Mark Blackburn, who each invested 600 euros in founding the company. Karayi now owns most of the company's holdings after cashing out Wilcok and Blackburn. To date, the company has installed more than 16 million licenses in around 1,400 organizations in 42 countries worldwide. Customers represent the public and private sectors around the world, including AT&T , Dell , HSBC , Arup , Nomura and the Ford Motor Company .

The company name was derived from a computer error. On some computers with Microsoft Windows as the operating system, a blue screen with the string 1E appears when the computer crashes. This name was chosen because the company's founders wanted to spare large companies from such an event.

Products

1E develops the following software products for the Windows , Mac OS X and Linux operating systems :

  • NightWatchman® Server Edition measures the electrical energy demand of servers and detects which servers are inefficient. This solution monitors the amount of useful activity from physical and virtual servers, allowing unused servers to be decommissioned.
  • NightWatchman® Enterprise is a PC energy management solution that targets the 50% of all PCs that are not turned off at night or on weekends and require unnecessary power.
  • WakeUp ™ is a product that activates over the LAN to turn on PCs for software updates. WakeUp comprises a software component for the iPad and iPhone for the central management of WakeUps.
  • Nomad Enterprise ™ leverages idle network bandwidth to securely perform operating system upgrades, software deployments, and patches on thousands of computers and servers - day or night, without interruption. This enables operating systems, software applications and updates to be distributed to remote branches without a server or with limited bandwidth, while saving server and administration costs.
  • Shopping ™ is the app store for businesses and a self-service software portal that can be used to automate inquiries, approvals, and deployments. Users can download the software and services they need . This results in fewer software inquiries to the help desk .
  • AppClarity ™ is software asset management software that tracks down unused software in companies, quantifies potential savings, and reclaims and reuses unused licenses. This makes it possible to only use (and pay for) software that is actually needed.

research

In 2009, 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy commissioned independent research into the awareness and behavior of PC users and server administrators in the world's largest corporations.

The PC Energy Report found that nearly half of all work PCs in the US are not turned off regularly overnight. This means that around 108 million PCs remain switched on at work overnight and cause unnecessary electricity costs of 2.1 billion euros. At the same time, around 20 million tons of carbon dioxide are emitted, which corresponds to the environmental pollution of around 4 million cars.

The Server Energy & Efficiency Report shows that unused servers cost 18 billion euros annually in hardware , maintenance, administration, electricity and cooling . About a sixth of these servers (15%) do no useful tasks at all. Shutting down non-productive servers could save 2.8 billion annually in electricity costs and avoid 11.8 million tons of carbon dioxide (the amount caused by 2.1 million cars).

In 2010, 1E commissioned Vanson Bourne to assess help desk efficiency. The report for this research project highlights a number of issues facing IT departments. For more than a third of users, the money their IT departments spend on them annually is of little or no value. Over 50% of users have to ask at least once for each of their inquiries in order to actually receive the software they have requested, and more than two-thirds (68%) of users believe that they could find and install the software they need more quickly themselves than the IT help desk.

The Software Efficiency Report published in 2011 with Fast IiS, Opinion Matters and IAITAM shows that there is unused software and shelfware worth 2 billion euros in the UK alone. 47% of respondents said their company still uses spreadsheets to list software licenses. 6% still use a paper-based management system and a staggering 16% do not use electronic or paper formats.

Competitor

A number of competitors offer PC energy management software products similar to 1E. These include Data Synergy PowerMAN (software), Verdiem SURVEYOR and Faronics Power Save.

Awards

  • NightWatchman Server Edition received the Green IT award in the Product of the Year category
  • NightWatchman Enterprise took second place in the Minister of Energy Category at the Green IT 2011 Awards.
  • 1E is ranked among the best privately owned companies on the Sunday Times International Track 2010 list.
  • 1E was named ISV / Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year at the Microsoft Partner Awards.
  • 1E received the Green Supplier Award at the Green IT Expo 2008.
  • NightWatchman was named Enterprise Software Product of the Year by CNET Networks UK Business Technology in 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danny Bradbury: Computer firms wake up to the problem of always-on PCs. In: businessgreen.com. October 11, 2007, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Muncaster, Phil: 1E and Computacenter team up to aid green initiatives . In: v3.co.uk , August 12, 2009. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  3. ↑ a b c Woods, Catherine: Entrepreneur watches as web address value skyrockets . In: Real Business , July 16, 2008. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  4. ^ Grossman, Wendy: Starting Out . In: The Daily Telegraph , April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2009. 
  5. ↑ a b Bridge, Rachel: Firm was programmed to succeed. How I Made It: Sumir Karayi Founder of 1E . In: The Times , August 19, 2007. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  6. ↑ Scott, Jennifer: ITPRO . October 13, 2009. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009.
  7. ↑ Unnecessary servers? Computer Week October 22, 2009
  8. ^ Brodkin, Jon: Network Admin Program Eases Vista Power Consumption . In: PC World , October 29, 2007. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  9. ↑ Running a computer costs millions, Silicon.de March 27, 2009
  10. ↑ Erlanger, Leon: Verizon Wireless rings in desktop power savings . In: InfoWorld , April 21, 2008. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  11. ↑ 1E: Nomad Enterprise Solution to Enable Windows 7 Deployments . TMC Net. November 14, 2009. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009.
  12. ↑ Microsoft Technology Centers add 1E Solutions to Sustainable IT Briefings . NewsBlaze. December 2, 2009. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009.
  13. ↑ Unused computers are billions of dollars in energy, Computer Week March 27, 2009
  14. ^ Report From 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy Finds That Organizations Waste Billions of Dollars Running Idle Computers. In: ase.org. Alliance to Save Energy, March 25, 2009, archived from the original on August 30, 2010 ; accessed on July 3, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Unused computers cause energy costs in the billions, Tec Channel March 27, 2009
  16. ↑ HelpDesk Efficiency Report . Vanson Bourne. 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  17. ^ Software Efficiency Report . Fast IiS, Opinion Matters, IAITAM. 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  18. ↑ Office Equipment: Computer Power Management Software. In: reliant.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008 ; accessed on May 10, 2018 (English).
  19. ^ University of Oxford Low Carbon Project: Energy and the networked computing environment . Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  20. ↑ PC Power Management Solutions . Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  21. ↑ Why use software NightWatchman to turn your PCs off? . Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  22. ↑ Green IT awards 2011
  23. ↑ 2010 International Track 100 league table UK, The Sunday Times ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fasttrack.co.uk
  24. ↑ Microsoft Awards 1E with ISV / Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year, Blog: Microsoft's Environmental Sustainability team  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 30, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / blogs.msdn.com  
  25. ^ Spencer, Morgan: 1E And VeryPC Named Green Suppliers 2008 At The Green IT Expo Awards . In: Fresh Business Thinking , 2008. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009. 
  26. ^ Winners of the 2007 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards announced . CBS Interactive . 2007. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved on December 3, 2009.