GCloud3 = More Green Savings, Less Power Consumption

The GCloud3 product line offers significant green savings on a number of fronts, helping you conserve both the Earth and your capital and operating budgets.

Our GTC (GCloud3 Thin Client) line of thin clients uses about 8 watts of power, or roughly 3 percent of what a even an Energy Star certified desktop PC consumes – reducing both direct electricity costs and air conditioning costs to remove generated heat. In fact the GCloud3 thin client when in full use consumes less electricity than many PCs do when turned off due to the electricity they continuously consume to be ready to respond to a press of a power button.

Also, our GCloud3 servers, use green power supplies that allow for power to only be consumed at the load that is needed at that point in time, so even at peak use, it is consuming 20 watts per users. Understanding that the main point to remember is that entire network exists on the GCloud3. This includes the router, firewall, backup server, server, virtual desktop broker, and all workstations are all being hosted and powered by the GCloud3. This allows for less power consumption, less products manufactured such as routers potentially keeping these kinds of devices from becoming obsolete and ending up in a land field every 3-5 years.

Our GCloud3 thin clients also provide a smaller packaging footprint, resulting in savings on shipping, storage and waste disposal. We’ve even revamped our packaging to minimize the amount of non-recyclable materials used.

And because of the simple design of our GCloud3 thin clients and their lack of moving parts that wear out or even firmware needing upgrades, its lifecycle can be far longer than a traditional PC, resulting in greatly lengthened desktop refresh cycles and compounded capital expense and maintenance savings for organizations. A GCloud3 thin client that lasts for 10 years can potentially keep two or even three desktop PCs out of landfills, letting you invest those funds in your core infrastructure.

Finally as operating systems and applications grow and demand more computing resources, the necessary hardware upgrades can be made to the GCloud3 servers to shared among all virtual desktop users, and not out on every desktop where utilization is often at 10% or less over the life of a PC. This saves both on hardware capital expenditures and also on the electrical power and cooling needed for this largely unused PC hardware.