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    Startup Lopoco Launches Power-Efficient Server Line

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published July 23, 2013
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      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.

      Currently, Mountain View, Calif.-based Lopoco offers four types of servers: 12-core, 8-core, 4-core and microservers. They can be used for a number of roles: hypervisors; typical server applications, such as email, database, file sharing and Web services (Apache/IIS/PHP/Java); and cloud technologies such as Hadoop and Hive.

      When using these applications, Lopoco’s servers can save the average company as much as 80 percent of OPEX for combined power and cooling costs, said CEO and co-founder Andrew Sharp. Additional savings can be realized on power distribution units (PDUs) and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) equipment.

      “We started Lopoco because we saw a void in the server market,” Sharp said.

      Lopoco’s servers already have been deployed in a number of enterprises, including Light and Motion Industries. “We have purchased systems from Lopoco and all are performing flawlessly,” said CEO Daniel Emerson, CEO of Light and Motion Industries. “We are also pleased with the power savings. I would recommend them to any small business looking to move off the power hogs that pass for servers these days.”

      Lopoco was founded by a number of Silicon Valley veterans that have held executive and technical roles at companies such as Convergent Technologies, Sun, HP and Yahoo.

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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