"Alaska" was a computer brand sold in Mexico in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Its server line was called "Alaska Artic Power." The brand belonged to Mexmal Mayorista S.A. de C.V. and Dinastía International Corp., a computer distribution group based on the Laredo, Texas and Monterrey, Nuevo León border. The Alaska Artic Power 2U rackmount server was a rebadged Chenbro RM21200 chassis.
The 2U rackmount unit sold as the Alaska Artic Power 2U is a Chenbro RM21200, a general purpose 2U server chassis produced by Chenbro (Taiwan) in the early 2000s.
Specifications, from the Intel chassis compatibility sheet for the RM21200 tested with the Intel Server Board SCB2:
Chenbro's own product listings identify the model as RM212, with part numbers RM21200-00001, RM21200-00002, and RM21211-00001.
Dinastía and Mexmal launched the Alaska brand in 1998. Product names used a cold weather theme: the servers were "Alaska Artic Power" and "Alpine"; desktops included "Icy Blue," "Coastal," "Equinox," "Fortuna," "Altura," "Vidro," and "Paxson"; notebooks were "Avalanche."
Alaska computers were marketed as Intel based and Microsoft certified, and the company described itself as ISO 9001:2000 and Microsoft WHQL certified. In company statements to the Mexican trade press in 2002 and 2003, Alaska was described as a leading home PC brand in Mexico. A 2011 retrospective reported sales of about $160 million for 1998 and roughly 40 percent of the local white box market. Distribution extended across Mexico (Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Torreón, Chihuahua, Aguascalientes, Puebla, Querétaro, Guadalajara, and Mexico City) and into parts of Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru).
From the dinastia.com web store, recovered from the Internet Archive:
A Mexmal and Intel training document lists the Intel server platforms behind the line, including NP-ISP1100 (1U), NP-ISP2150 (2U), and NP-ISP4400, with boards MB-ISTL2 and MB-ISBT2.
The founders were Patrick Wong and Alfredo Flores, and the business began around 1990. Dinastía's reported sales grew from about $1 million in 1990 to about $81 million in 1996. In 1997 the Laredo Morning Times named Wong and Flores Small Business Persons of the Year. The group operated a large superstore on Calton Road in Laredo and distribution centers in Mexico.
The group ran into financial trouble in the early 2000s. On June 27, 2003 the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, lent Mexmal Mayorista $10 million.
On March 10, 2005 the United States Dinastía entities (Dinastía L.P., Dinastía International Corp., Dinamex Inc., and Patal Investments) filed Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (In re Dinastia, L.P., No. 05-33650). Mexmal Mayorista entered a concurso mercantil, a Mexican commercial bankruptcy proceeding, in Monterrey.
The Mexmal concurso became a liquidation on August 30, 2006. ASI Computer Technologies acquired the IFC debt and the assets. Other companies and parties named in the records include International Bank of Commerce (IBC), GulfStar Group, and the holding entities Mexmal Group, Ltd. and Mexmal Group Management, LLC.