Slashing Your TCO
Waste not, want not.
Why waste money using 8 or 12 traditional servers to run your performance-intensive MySQL, NoSQL, or memcached implementations, when you can use one Schooner Appliance instead? Each Schooner Appliance is an integrated plug-and-play solution that delivers superb performance, dramatic server consolidation and extreme availability. Our unique ability to exploit modern flash memory, multi-core Intel processors, and low-latency interconnects gives you a uniquely valuable solution to some big business problems. Schooner can usually deliver a 50% three-year TCO reduction with our Appliance for Memcached/NoSQL and a 60% three-year TCO reduction with our Appliance for MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB.
The figure on the left shows a customer example using two Schooner MySQL Appliances, each with 1/2 TB, instead of 16 traditional MySQL servers, for an immediate capex saving and a reduction in power consumption from 9.00 kW to 1.35 kW. That adds up over three years to a 65% reduction in TCO. The figure on the right shows how a customer used four Schooner Memcached Appliances with a total of 2 GB of cache instead of 32 traditional memcached servers, for an immediate capex saving and a reduction in power consumption from 18.0 kW to 2.5 kW. That's a 50% TCO reduction over three years.
These TCO comparisons include initial capital expense, maintenance, and the cost of "rack, power, and pipe" over three years. The TCO computation only includes tangible costs; it does NOT include any cost savings due to the simplified administration for an 8:1 server reduction.
Your mileage may vary, but it will be a much easier trip with Schooner.