In its quest to support more than 100 million current registered users, Flixster tapped into Schooner Appliances for Memcached to chart a new course of capacity and performance in a Web 2.0 world. One Schooner appliance now replaces 12 standard servers, saving server clutter and thousands of dollars per year in servers, rack space, power and cooling.

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Plaxo found the answer in an integrated solution from Schooner. Plaxo purchased one Schooner Memcached appliance configured for high service availability. Rather than spreading the 640GB of cache capacity and accesses across 10 servers, the Schooner Memcached appliance were able to handle the entire capacity and workload. This resulted in a 10X reduction in rack space, power and cooling. The two Schooner Memcached appliances were configured for transparent replication and automatic fail-over, assuring service availability.

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