Efficient power management enables enterprises to help reduce overall IT costs by avoiding unnecessary energy use. This article describes how to enable and validate AMD PowerNow!™ power management technology on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with AMD™ Opteron™ processors.

Energy efficiency is a top concern as IT managers struggle with rising power bills, cooling problems, usage limits imposed by local utilities, or requirements to deploy additional servers without expanding an existing data center or building a new one. To…