CRN recently featured Lopoco, not only one of the top 10 coolest servers of 2013, but as one of the top 10 data center stories of 2013. From the article:
6. Never Too Late To Be A Server Vendor
The server business may be changing and perhaps shrinking, but that seems to be more of an encouragement than a discouragement to vendors to enter the market. 2013 saw a number of entrants spring up from nowhere and enter the server market, including:
— Lopoco, or Low Power Computer, Mountain View, Calif., which in July entered the market with a small line of traditional-looking servers characterized by low power consumption.
— Servergy, a McKinney, Texas-based developer of energy-efficient servers based on the IBM Power processor architecture and Linux.
— Best known for its hard drives and SSDs, Western Digital, though not a startup by any means, in October introduced the WD Sentinel DS5100 and WD Sentinel DS6100 servers with built-in network storage capabilities.
