Case Study: Penn State achieves nearly US$800,000 in annual energy savings with IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (IBM)

Penn State expects $300K in yearly energy savings by using IBM BigFix technology

Penn State faced sharply rising energy costs and needed to cut unnecessary power use from classroom, lab and departmental computers. To meet that challenge the university selected IBM and deployed IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (built on BigFix technology) to provide centralized power, lifecycle, patch and security management across campus endpoints.

IBM’s Tivoli Endpoint Manager was rolled out after a proof of concept and configured to balance aggressive power policies (displays off and sleep settings) with IT needs for remote wake and nightly patching. The deployment has already cut energy costs by US$288,000 per year and—with roughly 20,000 workstations targeted and nearly 21,000 endpoints now managed across 34 units—Penn State expects about US$800,000 in annual savings; IT staff time, application deployment speed and endpoint security have also measurably improved under IBM’s solution.

Penn State

John Tyndall

IT Manager