Today's information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing data centers face exploding growth in usage and demand. As a result, IT managers have been forced to install more and more commodity hardware just to keep pace. Web data centers often become crowded with racks of servers that become difficult to manage and expensive to power and maintain. To support the database and memory caching needs of today's Internet focused applications, you need systems that can offer performance and reliability while still keeping costs in control – especially in today's economic environment.

To meet these challenges,Schooner Information Technology has created two state-of-the-art data access solutions: the Schooner Appliance for Memcached and the Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise. Based on an innovative system architecture combining the Schooner Operating Environment and highly optimized versions of MySQL Enterprise and Memcached, with a leading-edge balanced hardware technology, these next-generation appliances are scalable, reliable, cost effective, and green.

Schooner appliances are designed to reduce TCO by up to 60%, and to be 100% compatible with existing Memcached and MySQL deployments. Schooner appliances enable customers to power a whole new class of revenue-producing applications based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data. Schooner appliances offer:

  • Extraordinary consolidation: Schooner appliances are capable of replacing traditional servers by a ratio of up to 8:1
  • Higher performance: Schooner appliances provide up to 8x higher performance capacity
  • Extreme reliability: Schooner appliances employ persistence, transparent replication with automatic failover, RAID, and backup/recovery software to deliver enterprise-class reliability and dramatically increase mean time between failure (MTBF)
  • Seamless compatibility: Schooner appliances are designed to be 100% compatible with existing client applications and management tools
  • Quick deployment: Schooner appliances provide plug-and-play installation for easy set-up and deployment
  • Simple management: The Schooner Administrator employs extensive monitoring and optimization features that are easily integrated with existing management tools
  • World-Class support: 24/7/365 single-point-of-contact service and support available from IBM for every Schooner appliance

What Schooner customer's are saying:

"Power is the big constraint right now, so anything we can do to reduce that footprint right now is helpful. From an administrative perspective, fewer machines is always better. Having fewer boxes means easier scripting and monitoring, as well as a reduction in potential failures."
Saran Chari, CTO, Flixster  Read Flixster Case Study

"In the wonderful Schooner world, failovers go away. Schooner replication means that you’re sure that what you have on one node will also be on the other. Our developers don’t have to worry about cache coherency. They can plan on the data being available so they don’t have to program defensively."
Ethan Erchinger, Director of Operations, Plaxo  Read Plaxo Case Study

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