Green computing is a hot topic these days. Just doing a search on Google for green computing returns more than 350,000 results. Citrix has announced a new project called “Citrix Power Smart” that helps with green computing initiatives. Basically, what Citrix Power Smart does is power off servers during non-peak hours defined by a schedule. Ruiguo Yang states more in a blog post, “Just imagine you have 10 presentation servers. During the business hours they are fully utilized. However at nights or on weekends hardly anyone connects to them. These servers however still consume power needlessly during such “off business hours”. Simply powering off such servers during “off business hours” can save you up to 30-50% of your presentation server farm power consumption based on our rough estimate…”

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