The latest version of UK-based NetSupport's enterprise management suite, NetSupport DNA version 3, includes a new Energy Monitoring component.

"Industry analysts show that IT energy costs are often one of the highest on the company's IT budget and one that is most overlooked for efficiency management." said Al Kingsley, Group Managing Director of NetSupport. "NetSupport DNA already checks to verify the powered-on state of all computers across an Enterprise and its local monitoring component keeps an accurate record of each time a computer is powered on, off or hibernates. DNA3 now provides organizations with a method for calculating an indicative energy usage figure which when combined with each customer's specific energy rates highlights the overall cost of identified systems."

Department heads or management can immediately see a high level view of energy usage by computers across the organization, see where "out of hours" usage is highest and identify whether this is a result of diligent staff working late or simply systems that have been left switched on overnight.

NetSupport DNA 3 also introduces a new Internet Gateway component ensuring that all IT assets, even those at remote locations are included and managed in real time. The Internet Gateway provides secure IP communications over the Internet for managing assets that may ordinarily be 'hidden' on a remote network or behind firewalls.

Among a number of other feature enhancements, NetSupport DNA now fully integrates with Active Directory enabling customers to automatically reflect all PCs and Users within their DNA Console as a mirror to their Active Directory structure. Any changed made in AD will automatically apply within NetSupport DNA.

The Software Asset management capabilities have been further extended to provide a detailed summary of both installed programs and installed applications detected on each PC, providing a simpler way of managing programs licenses as a suite such as Microsoft Office.