Kyrene School District Selects Adaptiva for 1,500 Additional PCs

School District Decreases Energy Consumption, Lowers Costs with Earth-Friendly Adaptiva Green Planet Software

2012-02-29

BELLEVUE, WA, February 29, 2012 (Press-News.org) Adaptiva, a provider of IT systems management solutions, today announced that Kyrene School District has purchased an additional 1,500 licenses of Adaptiva Green Planet PC power management software. This new agreement brings the total number of Kyrene clients deployed with Adaptiva Green Planet to 11,500. This Earth-friendly software offers a collaborative approach for end-users to optimize PC power management, reduce energy consumption, lower costs and decrease CO2 emissions.

"Adaptiva Green Planet has outperformed our expectations, which is why we are deploying it on 1,500 additional clients. We have significantly reduced energy consumption, increased the return on investment on our current systems and have reduced greenhouse emissions," said Marilyn Christie, network engineering and systems coordinator at Kyrene School District. "I simply love this product— Adaptiva offers superior software that is easy to use and does exactly what it says it will do. Adaptiva simply works."

Adaptiva Green Planet is an enterprise-class PC power management solution. Adaptiva Green Planet provides visibility into PC energy conservation and helps to proactively identify and harvest bandwidth. With the additional 1,500 computers deployed with Adaptiva Green Planet, this Arizona-based School District can expect thousands of dollars in energy cost savings, a reduction in CO2 emissions and decreased energy use by at least 375,000 kWh annually.*

"Adaptiva is pleased to expand our partnership with Kyrene School District to enhance PC power management, reduce energy costs and positively impact the environment," said Dr. Deepak Kumar, president and founder of Adaptiva. "We look forward to working with Kyrene to continually optimize their systems management by consistently delivering Adaptiva's simple, elegant and mature best-in-class solutions."

*Calculations are estimates based on statistical data.

About Adaptiva
Founded in 2004, Adaptiva is a leader in innovative systems management software solutions. A Microsoft Gold Partner, Adaptiva extends Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager providing revolutionary hierarchy simplification, client health assurance and PC power management solutions, Adaptiva eliminates server infrastructure, streamlines system management and optimizes content distribution through a distributed network while significantly increasing the return on investment on existing systems. Adaptiva is deployed on more than 1 million devices in over 14 countries, and is sold directly and through a network of partners and channel resellers. Learn more at http://www.adaptiva.com, email info@adaptiva.com or call 425.823.4500.

About Kyrene School District
The Kyrene Elementary School District is an award-winning suburban district comprised of 25 schools (19 elementary and 6 middle schools). Kyrene's boundaries are located within Chandler, Tempe, Guadalupe, Phoenix. Kyrene enrolls approximately 18,000 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, and over 400 preschool children. The Special Education enrollment is approximately 2,100 students. For more information, visit http://www.kyrene.org.

Adaptiva extends Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager providing revolutionary hierarchy simplification, client health assurance and PC power management solutions. A Microsoft Partner, Adaptiva helps users decrease the environmental impact of desktop computing, increase desktop manageability and end-user productivity, and significantly reduce IT operation costs. Adaptiva solutions leverage your existing IT resources to enhance the operation of Configuration Manager without disrupting service to end-users. Learn more at http://www.adaptiva.com or email info@adaptiva.com.

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