1E is already providing centrally managed power management for PCs, but now the company is eying servers.

I know what you’re thinking: better to let those servers just do their jobs. But 1E thinks there’s plenty of potential energy savings if organizations had a better grasp on which servers are pulling their weight. eWeek Europe reports:

One of the features of the technology are analytical tools to measure performance of individual servers in a data centre and assess which ones are actually carrying out useful computing tasks.

“Ten to fifteen percent of servers can be decommissioned in any data centre but its hard to know which ones – we will tell you which ones,” he said.