JouleX security principles

The former co-founder of Internet Security Solutions (ISS), Tom Noonan, is heading up a new company focused on the development of green IT software solutions.  Their first product, launched recently at Las Vegas Interop conference, is called JouleX which monitors most networked devices, not just PCs and servers.

With companies such as 1E and BigFix monitoring only desktop PCs and servers, JouleX takes monitoring one step further with a broader range of supported devices including VoIP phones (Cisco, Siemens, NEC, Polycom etc), routers, enterprise & PoE switches, WLAN access points, as well as facility based devices such as the Cisco Mediator (for building and HVAC management).

JouleX claims to reduce "up to 60%" of energy costs through a lifecycle of monitor-analyse-manage.

Targeted at the enterprise IT environment, probably one of the most beneficial features is agentless monitoring.  With an ever growing number of monitoring software systems requiring their own agent installed on servers and desktops, the need for innovative technology that does not install additional software on systems is essential.  As is the need for detailed tools for analysing the monitoring data - JouleX provide dynamic energy, power state and carbon analysis, and then compliments the data with tools such as simulation, policies and event based rules to enforce energy savings.

In a press statement, Noonan said "Our technology is the first to proactively address the energy gap between a company’s actual energy usage and what it really needs to productively run its IT and facilities infrastructure.

At $7 trillion annually, the global energy industry is ripe for innovation.  Energy conservation through efficiency is pivotal to saving energy costs and protecting the environment – and with JouleX, reductions in energy usage by as much as 60 percent are possible. Corporations can now measure enterprise energy consumption and control energy waste across all of their office IT networks, data centers and building management systems."