(EnergyAsia, February 4, Wednesday) — USONYX, a leading Asian web hosting service provider, and Japan’s NEC Asia, have teamed up to help raise the energy efficiency of data centres.

Developed with the goal of introducing powerful and precise yet environmentally-friendly products into data-centre markets, they said the NEC Express5800/iModel servers feature 1U rack optimised size with dedicated DC use design including electricity-power consumption saving architecture.

In a statement, they said: “This helps data centers, which house thousands of servers each, to effectively save huge electricity cost drastically, while enabling them to operate effectively such as remote KVM functionality. These compact NEC servers are also created to significantly reduce power consumption, weight, and cooling requirements, while the energy-efficient power supplies and components work in tandem with optimised designs and active monitoring software management systems to deliver greater operating efficiency in relation to typical server loads.”

As the pioneering purchaser of these green machines, USONYX said it is now positioned to deliver enhanced services to her growing base of consumers at greater value, while offering to them the benefits of these newly deployed servers: greater speed, reliability, longer service life, and the opportunity to do their bit for the environment.

As a result of this investment, USONYX said it has benefitted from increased cost savings, minimised limitations and reduced opportunity costs.

Martin Chan, USONYX managing director, said the purchase of these servers will enable his company serve the web hosting market with “revolutionary” products and services.

He said: “USONYX has increased the count of our dedicated servers by 50% in 2007 and 2008, making it possible for us to provide our customers with unparalleled web hosting services. This collaboration with NEC is timely, and in line with our vision for year 2009 to adopt eco-friendly measures.”

NEC said it has been delivering innovations through the past 100 years towards creating an information society that is friendly to humans and the earth. With a commitment to cut carbon dioxide emissions of IT platform in half by 2012, the company has been introducing various energy-saving servers to suit businesses of different nature.

Kiyofumi Kusaka, regional CEO of NEC Asia, said: “The business world today is heavily reliant on technology. To data centres and web hosting companies, sophisticated data processing and information security is particularly vital. However, this means deployment of numerous equipment with more advanced features, which cause their power consumption bar to rise tremendously.

“By introducing these energy and space-saving servers to our customers, we hope to help these companies, such as USONYX Singapore, to achieve greater efficiency and sustainability, as well as ensuring data reliability and a high level of availability. We also hope to indirectly promote a greener environment together with our clients.”