Lopoco’s power-efficient servers have sparked a number of recent stories, and eWeek has just featured the start-up company’s news as well. From the article:
Lopoco claims its new high-efficiency servers can save enterprises more than half their data center operating costs.
A no-nonsense startup that wasn’t afraid to name itself after exactly what it does, Low Power Company—otherwise known as Lopoco—has launched a new line of high-efficiency servers, which the company claims can save any enterprise more than half their data center operating costs.
This is an astonishing claim when it comes to the real world. Cutting operating expenses by 40 to 50 percent on a multimillion-dollar data center can result in the type of substantial bottom-line savings—often in six figures—that causes accountants and boards of directors to promote people.
Lopoco’s servers, built on industry-standard hardware without costly or custom chips, are designed to provide substantial energy and cost savings compared with servers from conventional vendors. Lopoco’s servers also use conventional form factors, CPUs and server options already familiar to users.
Companies—from large data centers to small and midsize businesses (SMBs)—are wilting under the energy costs of power-hungry servers, which typically spend more than 90 percent of their lives at idle. To counteract this, Lopoco has engineered low-power servers with proprietary IT which use only about 20 percent of the energy and 50 percent of the space of conventional servers. The Lopoco servers became available July 18.
