New Schooner Storage Appliances

Schooner Information Technology is now shipping upgraded versions of its products for MySQL and NoSQL. According to this eWeek story, Schooner servers use a combination of solid-state disks -- NAND flash and DRAM -- in a new, proprietary architecture to provide high performance/high availability disaster-recovery and storage capabilities for any size data center.

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"One year to the day after emerging from stealth mode, the 2-year-old Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup made the announcement at the MySQL 2010 Conference, which continues through April 15.

"Schooner's servers use a combination of solid-state disks -- NAND flash and DRAM -- in a new, proprietary architecture to provide high performance/high availability disaster-recovery and storage capabilities for any size data center.

"The new Schooner appliances for MySQL Enterprise with InnoDB and for Memcached/NoSQL include the following improvements, according to Busch: improved optimization of the MySQL and Memcached software, flash memory, DRAM and multi-core Intel processors; a new, flash-based NoSQL key-value store based on the Memcached API; an extension the Memcached implementation to be 100 percent memcapable, including Binary Protocol; and an extension the administrative tools to include a command-line interface compatible with the widely-used Cisco IOS interface."

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