2009年12月16日星期三

Userful Corporation - Reduce Your Carbon Footprint This Earth Day and Save Money at the Same Time

CALGARY, AB - April 22, 2009 -- Userful Corporation, the common baton in high-performance, bargain desktop virtualization, today announces a "PC" betrayal in anniversary of the 39th celebration of Earth Day. Userful is giving abroad a chargeless 2-user adaptation of their avant-garde software which turns one computer into up to ten with the ambition of accepting 100,000 humans download the software and allotment their computer afore Earth Day. In 2008 Userful's PC-sharing software adored over 40,000 bags of CO2 emissions, and is on clue to save over 200,000 bags of CO2 in 2009, the agnate of demography added than 35,000 cars off the road, or burying 50,000 acreage of trees!

Desktop computers sit abandoned while we analysis our e-mail, cream the web, or blazon a document. Userful's PC-sharing and desktop virtualization technology leverages this balance accretion ability to actualize an environmentally able addition to acceptable desktop computing. Up to 10 users can plan on a individual computer by artlessly adhering added monitors, mice and keyboards.

"On March 28th hundreds of millions of humans angry off their lights for Earth Hour," says Timothy Griffin, President of Userful. "Events such as Earth Day and Earth Hour prove that a simple change common can badly abate all-around activity burning and connected CO2 emissions. For archetype the government of Brazil afresh deployed over 350,000 Userful PC-sharing workstations into schools. This abandoned will save 200 actor kWh annually, the agnate of axis 3.7 billion lights* off for an hour. Now brainstorm if on Earth Day hundreds of millions of humans absitively to download Userful's chargeless PC-sharing software to allotment their PC. The electricity and e-waste accumulation of this simple change would be incredible.”

Userful PC-sharing desktops accept been deployed in over 100 countries with a archetypal agreement of 6 workstations per computer. Reducing the amount of computers in use has added earth-friendly benefits. Electronic decay is an accretion botheration globally due to the quick obsolescence of electronics. This is circuitous by the actuality that computer decay is top in abounding baneful abstracts such as abundant metals and flame-retardant plastics, which calmly bleed into arena baptize and bio-accumulate. Using Userful articles can abate cyberbanking decay by up to 80%, added abbreviating its ecology footprint.

Userful is the simplest, and accomplished achievement access to desktop virtualization and administration on the market. All added PC-sharing solutions advance to sacrifices in achievement and abundant administering overhead. Userful offers the appearance of a abounding PC including top achievement video for beneath than $50 per added bench in ample deployments such as a contempo 356,800 workstation deployment in Brazilian schools, and uses accepted PC hardware. Savings of up to 90% in electricity use as compared to a acceptable PC-per-workstation band-aid are accomplished acknowledgment to Userful's advocate solution.

Need an added PC about the house? In anniversary of Earth Day Userful is giving abroad a chargeless adaptation of its avant-garde software that gives you a additional computer for free! This is the absolute way to abate line-ups for the computer as spouses, parents and accouchement action for a turn.

"The chargeless two-user betrayal doubles the account and amount of your absolute computer with basal cost," says Griffin, "In fact, if you already accept an added adviser and keyboard, it's like accepting a chargeless computer. Our ambition is for 100,000 humans to download the software and allotment their computer afore Earth Day.”

The chargeless two-user licenses broadcast beneath this advance accredit users with an added video agenda (or a dual-head video card) to add an added workstation by artlessly active in a additional monitor, USB keyboard and mouse. Thousands of users accept acquired chargeless two-user licenses and advice about the advance from userful.com/earth-day-free-pc.

*(Based on 526kWh per PC per year for operation; 1818kWh per PC for production; electricity generated at 1.55lbs CO2 per kWh; 11,560lbs CO2 per car per year; 60W per light; and 8,060lbs CO2 per acre of copse per year)

About Userful
Userful is the industry baton in desktop virtualization and multi-station Linux computing: the low-cost, high-performance addition to attenuate clients. Userful's able software transforms accepted PCs to abutment up to 10 accompanying monitors, keyboards and users, and manages them all at already through a axial website. Privately captivated and founded in 1999, Userful launched their flagship artefact in 2003 and was afresh called Alberta's 10th fastest growing aggregation beneath $20 actor in revenue. Userful software is acclimated in over 100 countries, and is bringing affordable blooming desktop accretion to millions of users worldwide. www.userful.com

Press Contact:

Sean Rousseau
Marketing Manager, Userful
srousseau@userful.com
Tel: +1.403.289.2177

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