Schooner Information Technology MySQL Appliances Provide 11 Times Throughput Improvement for MyLivePage Social Networking Site
Top Ten Russian Social Networking Site Uses Schooner Turn-Key Data Access Appliance to Enhance the User Experience, Maintain Rate of Rapid Growth and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 16, 2010 — Schooner Information Technology, Inc., a provider of data access appliances for Web 2.0, cloud computing and enterprise datacenters, today announced that MyLivePage, Inc. has purchased Schooner MySQL appliances. MyLivePage is a widely-popular social networking web site that allows users around the world to create a personal interactive Web site for free. Schooner MySQL appliances have brought superb performance, easy scalability and capacity to handle the increasing load on the MyLivePage site, a must for maintaining the company's fast-growing user base.
MyLivePage is one of the top ten social networking sites in Russia and is available in 20 different languages with five million registered users. With a rapidly-expanding customer base worldwide demanding high-quality service for media-rich file and image sharing, MyLivePage selected the Schooner Appliance for MySQL to efficiently scale its datacenter to support its ever-growing social communities. The Schooner Appliances for MySQL give MyLivePage vastly better performance and throughput capacity to handle load spikes, and much lower cost of operation.
"MyLivePage aims to be the go-to source for sharing, by providing the ultimate in user-generated simplicity and community, so premium performance and load capacity is essential to maintaining MyLivePage's user experience," said Rayes Lemmens, chief executive officer, MyLivePage. "Schooner is the perfect solution for any MySQL enterprise whose business success requires great performance, exceptional reliability and the ability to smoothly scale the datacenter as demand increases. Schooner helps us create a new wave of social networks, bringing technology that helps us create and sustain social communities like never before — efficiently, effectively and effortlessly."
The MyLivePage architecture integrates the Schooner appliances to provide quantum leaps in throughput and response times while supporting the highest consistency levels and durability for database transactions and redundancy in the storage layer. By utilizing Schooner, MyLivePage immediately experienced a nine times throughput improvement out of the box compared to its original servers hosting its MySQL slave databases. Modest tuning pushed this to a throughput improvement of 11 times.
"Schooner's appliance is a 100 percent compatible plug-and-play instance of MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB, formally certified by Sun/MySQL. Schooner's easy-does-it installation, along with a focus on optimization for peak performance and attention to ease-of-use and administration, provides real and immediate value for our customers," said Jerry Rudisin, chief executive officer, Schooner Information Technology. "MyLivePage is an innovative customer whose need for more capacity at a much lower cost of operation is met by Schooner's MySQL appliances. We look forward to continuing to support MyLivePage's rapidly growing user-base and capacity needs as the company continues to outpace its competitors."
About Schooner
Schooner Information Technology provides smooth scaling for Web 2.0, cloud computing and enterprise datacenters through its balanced data-access application appliances. Schooner solutions are fast, scalable, cost-effective and green. Schooner customers enjoy eight-to-one server consolidation and save power and space, reducing total cost of ownership by 50 percent and create new business opportunities based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and is venture funded by Menlo Ventures, CMEA Capital and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, please visit www.schoonerinfotech.com.