Schooner Information Technology to Present at Red Hat Summit on Achieving High Performance and Availability with SchoonerSQL and Flash Memory
Plaxo Vice President of Operations and Solution Architecture to Co-Present Customer Case Study with Schooner CEO
Sunnyvale, Calif. – June 21, 2012 - Schooner Information Technology, Inc., which develops and markets high-availability (HA), high-performance software and data cache solutions, will be sponsoring and speaking at the eighth annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World to be held June 26-29, 2012 in Boston, Mass. At Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, IT leaders meet to discuss how innovative open source technologies and best practices can drive business transformation.
On Wednesday, June 27 at 3:40 p.m. ET, Schooner customer and Plaxo Vice President of Operations and Solution Architecture Ethan Erchinger will present a real-world case study based on the experience at Plaxo, the world’s largest online address book and a division of Comcast. Plaxo adopted Schooner technologies, SchoonerSQL and Schooner Membrain, to dramatically increase performance and consolidate servers without sacrificing availability. Jerry Rudisin, CEO of Schooner, will co-present.
The case study will review Plaxo’s deployment of SchoonerSQL, a MySQL-derived database, with flash memory and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Erchinger and Rudisin will discuss the business impact of deploying a high-availability, OLTP database combined with flash and Linux, and how other Enterprise 2.0 organizations can achieve maximum database and datastore throughput with a similar configuration, without defaulting to higher-priced solutions.
What: How the Leading Online Address Book Deployed Flash-optimized SchoonerSQL & Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Consolidate Servers & Increase Availability
When: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 from 3:40 - 4:40 p.m. ET
Where: Red Hat Summit, John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., 02115
Who: Ethan Erchinger, vice president of Architecture & Operations, Plaxo
Jerry Rudisin, chief executive officer, Schooner Information Technology
About Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology delivers cost-effective, enterprise-grade software solutions engineered for flash. These solutions free customers from the traditional tradeoffs between availability, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). Schooner’s offerings include SchoonerSQL, which is 100 percent compatible with MySQL for easy adoption, and the complementary Membrain software cache. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Schooner is privately funded and supports a variety of customers across technology, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications industries.
For more information, please visit www.schoonerinfotech.com. Follow us on Twitter @schoonerinfo.
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