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November 2014
Company Introduction
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The DataTank™ Company
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Corporate Profile
Density, Efficiency and Simplicity
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About Allied Control
Allied Control is a high-tech start-up building the most efficient cooling solution for high density electronics, and 3M’s Technology Partner for Novec™ Engineered Fluids.
With its unique and very different approach to cool computers, the company has attracted international attention and recently won the prestigious DataCenterDynamics and Best Green ICT Awards for most energy efficient data center and “Future Thinking & Design Concept”.
The innovative technology has earned praise from major media outlets such as CNN, New York Times and International Business Times, which see the company’s achievement in liquid immersion technology as the possible solution to the global energy crisis we see in data centers today.
Today, the company is known as pioneer and the first one worldwide to successfully implement the technology in commercial operations since 2012, providing drastically reduced OpEx and CapEx for operators.
In other words, Allied Control cools the world’s hottest computers more efficiently than anyone else.
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Traction & Competitive Advantages
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2012:
• Start of R&D and investments for Immersion-1• Official 3M technology partnership• Completion Immersion-1: World’s Largest FPGA Cluster with a
PUE <1.02 based on 6048 Xilinx Spartan®-6 LX150 FPGAs 2013:
• Concept design for 64 Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor cluster• Commencement of Immersion-2 Rack Platform design & construction• Presentation with 3M at SC13 Supercomputer Exhibition in Denver, Colorado• Completion of Immersion-2 500kW facility PUE <1.01
2014:
• Best Green ICT Award - Most Energy Efficient Data Center• Introduction of DataTank™ Container and Flat Rack product line• DataCenterDynamics Award “Future Thinking & Design Concept”• Establishment of DataTank Inc for international markets
Competitive Advantages:
• Production-ready turnkey open bath immersion cooling systems• International partnerships with renowned technology companies• Decades of experience with engineered fluids, electronic and mechanical design• Direct access to China, with its vast resources• Intellectual property, patents pending
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Winner of DataCenterDynamics & Best Green ICT Awards
Most Energy Efficient Data Center ~ PUE 1.01 ~
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Management Profile
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Kar-Wing Lau, VP of Operations and Co-Founder
Kar-Wing held positions as global leader at the multinational company Agility, where he worked on key accounts such as Wal-Mart, Apple and Chevron with single client contract values of up to USD 238 million, and later implemented internal organizational process and IT changes to improve best-practices across 22,000 employees in 500 locations on 6 continents.
Before joining Suzanne and Alex at PGT Holdings, where he drove operational efficiency to record levels, Kar-Wing has been CEO of the public IT consulting company Connecta AG which he co-founded in Germany. Connecta AG creates solutions for customers like Motorola and Deutsche Bank.
Kar-Wing is a sublime analyst and product designer with a practical hands-on drive, and his role is instrumental when scaling a start-up.
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Suzanne Su, Managing Director and Co-Founder
Suzanne coordinated large and diverse teams across different regions in her various roles as director and general manager, including at PGT where she first worked with Kar-Wing and Alex.
With her intimate knowledge of the Chinese and international manufacturing landscape and her good understanding of how to ensure utmost manufacturing quality, Suzanne has set up a complex network of suppliers on multiple continents, driving down costs and time to market, as well as improving profitability.
Suzanne is our expert in mass-production and speaks three different languages (four with Mandarin Chinese).
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Alex Kampl, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder
Alex has previously founded and headed two successful start-ups and held various technical positions that included full scale product management from idea to delivery.
As an inventor and product developer, Alex’s track-record includes a number of award-winning computer hardware products as well as the world’s first MP3 disc player back in 2000. As an entrepreneur, Alex established the most successful online retailer in Hong Kong with a traffic ranking of no-less than the Financial Times website before it was sold to PGT, where he worked with Kar-Wing and Suzanne. He is our visionary engineer.
When Alex is not in front of a computer or fiddling with components or mechanical parts, he enjoys running up Hong Kong’s hills and nature trails, and taking his family out into the wild.
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Jim Setterholm, VP of R&D, Co-Founder
Jim’s background lies in the consumer electronics industry, where he not only participated in the creation of ground-breaking new gadgets, but also took several products from concept to mass production throughout the years.
With his extensive hands-on experience in electronics, computing, product design and quality manufacturing, he has recognized early that the age of reinventing tomorrow’s data center has come.
Jim is fueled by a hunger for inventing new and clean solutions for all things technical. Before joining forces at Allied Control, he has been at the helm of two Asia based startups and found his way to PGT where he met and worked with Suzanne, Kar-Wing and Alex.
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Partners
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Partners & Industry Support
Our partners are an important part of our strategy. The prospect of building the supercomputers of tomorrow draws attention and support from companies such as 3M and other multinationals.
This is a small selection of our partners and we are looking forward to add more in the near future as we keep going.
A more complete list can be found at http://www.allied-control.com/partners
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In the Press
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“Immersion cooling could solve one of the biggest challenges of the digital economy - In Hong Kong, a company called Allied Control used submersion technology for a recently opened data center.”
- New York Times, Feb 2014
“The advancements that Allied Control has achieved are a major thrust for the data center industry,their accomplishments are inspiring other industry leaders to find better ways to address
energy efficiency, space constraints and increased computing power in data centers.- Wall Street Journal, Nov 2013
“90 percent of all the data in the world was created in the last two years, and datacenters are responsible for 2 percent of overall electrical usage. Hong Kong-based Allied Control uses 3M’s passive two-phase
liquid immersion cooling in a 500kW datacenter that mines for Bitcoins.”- HPC wire, Feb 2014
“Liquid cooling is a necessity for very high-density data center deployments, such as those performing high-performance computing. In these cases, organizations who want to exceed a certain
power density simply have no choice, regardless of the costs or hassles.” - Datacenter Journal, Jan 2014
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CNN World Business TodayFri 20 Dec 13 | 05:00 PM Kar-Wing Lau of Allied Control says immersion cooling cuts down on cost, space, electricity usage and unnecessary e-waste.
The Energy MinuteMon 17 Feb 14 | 06:00 AM
On The Energy Minute John Howell speaks about how Allied Control’s immersion technology can cut costs and cool Supercomputers.
We were also featured in the following publications:
Global News ReportFri 6 Dec 13 | 19:30 PM Ari Honka describes how blades are kept cool through “open bath immersion”, a technique which submerses computers in liquid with a particular low boiling point.
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Contact Details
Company Allied Control LimitedAddress 3/F, Global Trade Centre, 15 Wing Kin Road, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong Telephone +852 3145 0055Facsimile +852 3010 0802Email [email protected]
Website http://www.allied-control.com
