Why an Appliance
With the explosive growth of Web 2.0, enterprise, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud computing, and other performance-intensive applications, datacenters face exponentially increasing workloads. The business opportunities that are created from the deployment of these new applications are substantial, but the demands they place on the datacenter are daunting. Challenges include:
- Unprecedented data growth
- Severe capacity constraints
- Increasing data complexity
- The lack of scalability
- Underutilized resources
- Severe budget constraints
- The corporate mandate to go green
The ability to effectively scale the database and caching tiers is critical for most performance-intensive applications. But ordinary server and middleware infrastructure is loosely integrated and minimally optimized. Traditional solutions don't adequately address the performance, capacity, scaling, reliability, and power challenges of these applications.
Powerful new technologies — multi-core processors, enterprise-class flash memory, low-latency interconnects, and optimized data-access applications — have the potential to solve these challenges. IT managers need these solutions because the problem is big and painful. But can your IT team really afford to become its own integration house, developing the software needed to optimize these advanced technologies — a highly complex and error-prone project that can take years to implement? Doing so not only diverts valuable IT resources from your core business; it also results in unmanageable application and administrative complexity, low resource utilization, and high TCO.
What you need are simple but powerful out-of-the-box solutions to your problems. Schooner has them.
We developed a breakthrough approach to solving these problems. We offer turnkey data-access appliances that integrate flash memory, multi-core processors, low-latency interconnect, and application software into optimized solutions for MySQL, NoSQL, and memcached. Our innovation is in the overall balanced system architecture and our enabling software, delivered on an off-the-shelf IBM System x3650 server.
We do the integration and remove the bottlenecks so you don't need to. The Schooner Appliances enable IT teams to achieve their goals of increasing capacity, scalability, and reliability, while at the same time slashing costs and dramatically curtailing energy consumption across the datacenter.
Appliances should be simple. At Schooner we strive to make our appliances as simple as toasters. That's not quite literally achievable since MySQL, NoSQL key-value stores, and memcached are inherently more complex than burning sliced bread. But the toaster is a model that all of us keep in mind. We strive for rock-solid reliability, plug-and-play compatibility, amazing ease-of-use, and superb performance and availability. By and large, we succeed.
The simplest, fastest, and most cost-effective path to smooth scaling of your data center to handle MySQL, NoSQL, or memcached is to use Schooner.