Quanta Launches U.S. Subsidiary to Market Branded Line of Datacenter Solutions for U.S.

Quanta Computer (News - Alert) Inc., a $37-billion original design manufacturer (ODM) based in Taiwan, has launched off-the-shelf datacenter solutions in the U.S. In this regard, the company has already set up a U.S. subsidiary.

Officials with Quanta Computer said the new venture, branded QCT, provides a complete line of off-the-shelf datacenter products, including servers, storage and networking equipment. QCT also provides configuration and support services.

Officials at Quanta said the company targets midsize and large enterprise datacenter customers, service providers and governments who do not require the customized manufacturing capabilities or large volume production capabilities of a full-service ODM.

QCT offers a broad line of off-the-shelf components, each of which offers varying degrees of configurability.

"With the launch of QCT, end users have the advantage of combining the Quanta's engineering and manufacturing expertise but in an off-the-shelf product line that is designed to the OCP specification," Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook (News - Alert), and founding board member of the Open Compute Project (OCP), said in a statement.

Each product in the QCT lineup is specifically engineered for a different function in the data center, eliminating the need for over-engineering and excessive feature sets that often plague conventional equipment with unnecessary cost and complexity.

Mike Yang (News - Alert), general manager and vice president of QCT, said that for the first time, customers can take advantage of Quanta's outstanding engineering and integrated data center solutions in an OCP (News - Alert) rack, even if they're not large enough to require a full-service original design manufacturer.

Quanta and QCT serve different markets. Quanta customers are large organizations that have feature-specific design requirements, whereas QCT's customers need optimized configuration of the rack from off-the-shelf components.

Company officials maintain QCT is the only company that delivers all of the major components of the data center value chain: server, storage and networking equipment design and manufacturing experience in a single, proven resource.