• News and Events
  • Press Releases
  • In the News
  • Events
  • Awards

Schooner Information Technology Launches
"High Gear" Rescue Program for Stranded Gear6 Customers

Schooner Provides Gear6 Customers with a Fast, Easy Transition to
Superior, Supported Data-Access Appliances to Ensure Business Continuity

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 26, 2010 — Schooner Information Technology, Inc., a provider of scalable turnkey data-access appliances, today announced its High Gear Rescue Program to support Gear6 customers around the world, effective immediately. This program provides customers of Gear6, which recently filed for a business liquidation process called Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC), to upgrade to Schooner's award-winning datacenter appliances. Gear6 customers can shift their datacenters into high gear by upgrading to the Schooner Appliance for Memcached/NoSQL and its superior performance, reliability, and feature set at a substantial discount when trading in their old Gear6 servers.

Targeting the Gear6 customers who will be stranded by Gear6's recent ABC filing, Schooner's High Gear Rescue Program provides a fast, painless transition to the Schooner Appliance for Memcached/NoSQL. Gear6 customers also qualify for a discount on Schooner Appliances for MySQL Enterprise when purchased on the same order as the Gear6 rescue Appliances. The Schooner Memcached/NoSQL Appliance offers both 100 percent memcapable Memcached caching and persistent NoSQL key-value store services on the same half-terabyte appliance through its unique Container mechanism. Schooner also supports enterprise-grade high-availability, failover and disaster recovery, resulting in a 90 percent reduction in downtime compared to any other Memcached solution.

Schooner delivers unmatched performance, rock-solid reliability and dramatic server consolidation (usually more than eight to one). Finally, there's zero hardware risk with Schooner. Each Schooner Appliance is built on a reliable, energy-efficient IBM System x™ Server, and comes with dual multi-core Intel® Xeon™ "Nehalem" processors, 512 GB of Schooner-optimized flash memory, 64 GB of DRAM, and 1/10-Gb Ethernet interconnect technology.

Now that the gears are stripped and the wheels have fallen off, companies that bet on Gear6 face real challenges. The rescue program Schooner has developed for Gear6 customers will ensure business continuity, as well as let them capitalize on our advanced technology, financial strength and customer service," said Jerry Rudisin, chief executive officer, Schooner. "I appreciate the work that Gear6 did to help popularize Memcached. However, the Schooner solution has won the battle of the marketplace. Thus we invite Gear6 customers to place a safe bet on the winner and quickly and effectively reduce their risk and improve their economics by migrating to Schooner."

To take advantage of the Schooner High Gear Rescue Program, Gear6 customers can directly contact Schooner Sales at (877) 888-5064 or visit www.schoonerinfotech.com/buy_now.

About Schooner Information Technology

Schooner provides scalable turnkey data-access appliances for datacenters that need MySQL, Memcached or NoSQL with superb performance and extreme availability. One appliance delivers certified MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB for a full ACID-compliant database. The other delivers a high-performance cache and a NoSQL persistent key-value store, both based on Memcached. Each Schooner Appliance optimizes the software and its use of flash memory, multi-core processors and DRAM. Customers see 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. Schooner is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California. Learn more at www.schoonerinfotech.com.