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Verdiem Case Study:
California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation
Managing California’s largest state agency
requires technical efficiency.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is the state’s largest agency with approximately 65,000
employees and a $10.3 billion budget. CDCR is responsible for housing, transporting or tracking more than 156,000 adult
prisoners, approximately 104,000 parolees and roughly 1,100 juvenile offenders. In 2007, to save costs and reduce carbon
emissions, CDCR launched an energy saving initiative.
With more than 34,000 PCs statewide,
CDCR found that we could save costs
while deducing electrical usage:
Annual Per PC Energy Savings:
187 kilowatt hours, equal to*...
Approximately 4000 metric tons of
CO2 not emitted annually
More than 750 passenger vehicles
not driven annually
3 year total estimated savings: $2.3
million/12,000 metric tons of CO2
not emitted.
Legislative mandates, budget cuts and internal IT policy created the
need to modernize processes and procedures. In 2008, CDCR
transitioned to a new, fully integrated business information system to
streamline various internal operations. In October 2011, the agency
launched a new Strategic Offender Management System for managing
all offender data. With more data on the network, this was the ideal
time to find other ways to cut power usage and costs.
CDCR sought a way to control power costs related to the 34,000 PCs
it had on its networks. It was also interested in reducing its carbon
footprint as part of the state-wide Green Initiative. After discovering
Verdiem through an incentive program offered by a local utility, CDCR
learned it could cut power to PCs by controlling their operating status.
In response to the statewide Green Initiative, CDCR’s goal was to
reduce the total amount of energy used by its IT departments by at
least 20 percent.
At a Glance:

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"Keeping in mind CDCR
operates 250 sites, multiple
groups, and 34,000 devices,
implementation was painless."
"We implemented our
policy in September 2011.
At the beginning we had a
universal policy that put
the PCs into sleep mode
after a certain period of
inactivity. We didn't turn
anything off right away.
This was new to our users,
and we wanted to prove to
them that this wasn't going
to interrupt their operations."
~ Devin Holmes,
Section Chief,
IT Customer Service &
Field Operation Section,
CDCR
~ Joe Panora,
Director, Division of
Enterprise Information
Services, CDCR
Surveyor reduces power costs and emissions
throughout the network
Surveyor allows CDCR’s IT team to centrally control its fleet of PCs – establishing
power management policies that determine when PCs can shift into lower power
states. For example, Surveyor can put a PC into sleep mode when not in use during
the day for quick re-start when the user returns. Surveyor can also turn a PC off
completely when offices are closed in the evenings and weekends.
Baseline measurements were taken immediately after deployment. CDCR learned its
usage rates before policies were enacted. This data helped to shape policies, which
were then implemented.
Deploying Surveyor took less than a month. After installing Surveyor on its networks,
CDCR measured its baseline usage and then put policies in place to reduce power
consumption. The policies deployed included the following routine:
• Workstation goes to sleep after 7 a.m. if there is no usage for 2 hours.
• At 5 p.m., workstation goes to sleep if there is no usage for 30 minutes.
• At 10 p.m., workstation wakes for SMS patches and virus scan.
• Workstation goes to sleep following virus scan until 7 a.m. when it wakes
for the day.
"Keeping in mind CDCR operates 250 sites, multiple groups, and 34,000 devices,
implementation was painless." ~Devin Holmes, Section Chief, IT Customer Service
& Field Operation Section, CDCR.
Baseline Energy Consumption 20,365,625 kWh
14,652,757 kWh
5,712,868 kWh
7,786,638 lbs
28.1%
Energy Consumption of Surveyor
Energy Savings
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction
Energy Reduction %
Summary of Annualized Energy Consumption for all PCs
Baseline Energy Cost $2,647,531.25
$1,904,858.47
$742,672.78
28.1 %
Energy Cost with Surveyor
Cost Savings
Cost Savings %
Summary of Annualized Energy Costs for all PCs

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"At our first benchmark, we
wanted to know our usage
and have a comparison. So,
we put some parameters in
there and then we went
through it based on our
34,000 clients, our annual
baseline of 635 kilowatts,
electricity costs and our
current kilowatt usage, and
we discovered we were
saving around 28 percent per
year,"
~ Joe Panora,
Director, Division of
Enterprise Information
Services, CDCR
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About Verdiem
Verdiem is the leader in IT energy management. Verdiem’s flagship Surveyor
software enables enterprise customers to centrally control and reduce the energy
used by PCs and other networked devices by up to 60 percent without impacting
end users or IT. More than 600 corporations, government agencies, and universities
have deployed Surveyor to have a positive impact on the environment—reducing PC
energy costs and carbon footprint. Based in Seattle, Washington, Verdiem is a leader
in Green IT solutions and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
"We implemented our policy in September 2011. At the beginning we had a
universal policy that put the PCs into sleep mode after a certain period of inactivity.
We didn't turn anything off right away. This was new to our users and we wanted to
prove to them that this wasn't going to interrupt their operations," said Joe Panora,
Director, Division of Enterprise Information Services, CDCR.
The reductions quickly added up.
"At our first benchmark, we wanted to know our usage and have a comparison.
So, we established parameters based on our 34,000 clients, annual baseline of
635 kilowatts, electricity costs and our current kilowatt usage, and discovered a
savings of approximately 28 percent per year," said Panora.
Working with Verdiem, CDCR was able to leverage a cost savings strategy that
will save the agency nearly $750,000 per year in energy costs. Deployment was
seamless and, more importantly, invisible to the end user at the workstation.
In addition, the savings in carbon emissions helped CDCR reduce its carbon
footprint and reach its goal of compliance with California's Green Initiative for
public agencies.
"While Verdiem brings the potential to save up to 60 percent, CDCR was already
following ‘green’ energy saving practices and as a result had achieved some level
of power saving. However, through Verdiem, we were able to enforce power
saving policies that had previously been standard operating recommendations (i.e.,
putting your desktop to sleep at night). Through this, we have achieved and
sustained an additional 28 percent reduction above what we had already
implemented.” ~Andrea Wallin-Rohmann, Chief Information Officer, CDCR