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Greener PCs for the Enterprise
July/August 2009 (vol. 11 no. 4)
pp. 28-37
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Bruce Nordman, Ken Christensen, "Greener PCs for the Enterprise," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 28-37, July/August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MITP.2009.71,
author = {Bruce Nordman and Ken Christensen},
title = {Greener PCs for the Enterprise},
journal ={IT Professional},
volume = {11},
number = {4},
issn = {1520-9202},
year = {2009},
pages = {28-37},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.71},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Bruce Nordman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
PC energy use is a growing cost to enterprises, with most machines remaining fully powered on, even while idle, for most of the time. The Network Connectivity Proxy maintains network presence for PCs but lets them sleep while idle, thus saving energy and reducing total cost of ownership.

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Index Terms:
Green computing, network connectivity proxy, enterprise PCs
Citation:
Bruce Nordman, Ken Christensen, "Greener PCs for the Enterprise," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 28-37, July-Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MITP.2009.71
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