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Schooner Information Technology |
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http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/
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Founded: |
2007 |
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Sunnyvale, California |
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Country: |
United States |
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CEO: |
Jerry Rudisin |
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Founders: |
Dr. John Busch and Dr. Tom McWilliams |
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Other |
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Funding: |
VC |
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NoSQL,MySQL,data access appliances,flash memory,memcached,software, flash, DRAM,multi-core processors,IBM,scalability |
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Employees: |
51-100 |
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What does Schooner Information Technology do?
Schooner has created a novel MySQL Enterprise Appliance built on a patent-pending integration of enterprise-class flash memory, Intel® Xeon multi-core processors, low-latency interconnects, and an optimized implementation of MySQL. This scalable solution delivers dramatic performance improvements over traditional servers, allowing the replacement of 8 or more of them with a single Schooner Appliance.
How are they different?
Schooner has emerged as the first company to bring such a solution to market and takes a holistic approach to optimizing these technologies to create servers optimized for the widely-used MySQL open-source database. Schooner’s appliances are delivered on a standard IBM server with innovative system architecture and software by Schooner.
Schooner’s game-changing technology results in dramatic server consolidation, 50 percent lower cost of ownership, 90 percent less downtime and new business opportunities based on fast access to terabyte-scale data. Some Schooner customers have replaced 12 standard servers with a single Schooner Appliance; others have seen a five times speed-up in their ad hoc MySQL database queries.
Why could Schooner Information Technology be BIG?
The performance issues, difficulty handling massive data growth, and energy inefficiencies associated with the scale-out of datacenters running MySQL are expensive problems for the enterprise. It was seeing these pain points that led Schooner to create a new generation of data-access appliances—ones that yield companies up to 11 times performance improvement and cut total cost of ownership more than 50 percent.
There are powerful new technologies ready for prime time, including enterprise-grade flash memory from suppliers such as Intel, the Intel Xeon multi-core microprocessor family which can support massive software parallelism, and high-speed Ethernet interconnects. Using any one of these technologies alone can improve performance and remove a bottleneck. Schooner’s innovation stems from its overall optimal use of all of these technologies together, running an implementation of MySQL tuned to exploit the parallelism offered by the multi-core processors.
How they plan to make money:
Schooner sells its Appliances to a wide range of customers worldwide, from Web 2.0 properties to enterprise users. Schooner sells through direct sales and indirect channels including IBM, which is a worldwide reseller of the Schooner Appliances.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.schoonerinfotech.com/
