Tremendous technology advances have been made in recent years that offer the potential for major improvements in IT efficiency and innovation. Commodity hardware industry advances in enterprise flash memory and multi-core processors offer vast improvements in performance while reducing power and space consumption.
“Something like 40 percent of computer PhDs are working on Hadoop projects, sometimes unsuccessfully,” noted Schooner CTO John Busch. “It can be a very complex process, so I don’t know if bundling it with hardware will be easy as one-two-three.”
SchoonerSQL addresses the needs of database administrators and data center managers who must deliver minimal downtime, ensure maximum service availability for their online transaction processing (OLTP) applications
The company has adjusted its focus again with the launch of SchoonerSQL, positioning its database technology as the solution for MySQL high-availability and replication problems. Read the report (PDF)
Schooner CTO and Founder, Dr. John Busch, discusses how datacenters can use modern commodity technologies and the right software architecture to meet the high availability demands of their applications.
Schooner CTO and Founder, Dr. John Busch, discusses how datacenters can reduce costs and improve QoS by more cleverly exploiting commodity multi-core processors and flash memory.
Recorded at the recent O'Reilly Velocity 2010 conference, this video of Schooner founder and CTO Dr. John Busch addresses the problems Schooner's technology seeks to address.
Schooner packs its systems full of the high-speed memory similar to that found in iPods and cellphones to create a type of appliance that can hold huge quantities of often-viewed information at the ready.
Schooner's new appliances are tuned for multithreaded servers and allow companies to consolidate anywhere from five to ten x86 servers running these workloads down to one Schooner Appliance.
Schooner CTO John Busch says substantial improvements in power and cooling can be achieved by effectively taking advantage of multicore processors, flash memory, and high-performance networking.
Schooner CTO John Busch says that for most applications, the performance benefits delivered by SSDs compared to disk drives are about 25%, but potential improvements in the future could vastly improve that number.
This in-depth feature focusing on the emergence of SSDs in the enterprise includes Schooner CTO John Busch talking about the Schooner Appliances' use of SSDs.
Schooner is leading the way towards removing storage system bottlenecks with a set of integrated appliances that exploit enterprise-ready flash memory.
This 20-minute video presentation by Schooner CEO John Busch addresses how next-generation data access appliances will integrate new technologies to enable datacenter growth and cost reductions.
Schooner's data access appliances are featured in this monthly column on new enterprise-class products that eWeek's editors think should be on IT professionals' radars.
Schooner CEO John Busch talks about datacenter trends and challenges, and how IT teams must take advantage of fully optimized data access appliances to leverage higher-level building blocks that eliminate the need for complex integration projects.
Schooner is among several vendors featured in this article as contributing to the greening of the datacenter — a trend toward focusing on lower-voltage DRAMs, nonvolatile alternatives, and the emerging category of enterprise-class flash memory.
IBM will lead the service, support, and distribution efforts for Schooner's new appliances, which rely on an IBM x3650 server that includes Intel's latest Xeon chips to run its software.
Schooner has emerged from stealth mode to deliver a duo of server appliances — one to accelerate web caching and the other to speed up MySQL databases.
Schooner Sets Sail With $15M Series A
– The Wall Street Journal / Venture Wire
CMEA Capital led the financing for this round of funding, with participation from Redpoint Ventures.
Schooner is building a series of data access appliances meant to cut the Internet datacenter's spiraling costs, absurd complexity, and obscene power consumption.
John Busch and Thomas McWilliams, cofounders of Schooner, emerged from stealth mode with high-powered data access appliances designed to speed up Web 2.0 and cloud computing applications.
