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April 13, 2009 (Network World) A start-up led by Sun Microsystems Inc. veterans emerged from stealth mode today with high-powered data-access appliances designed to speed up Web 2.0 and cloud computing applications.

Schooner Information Technology took IBM’s newest Intel-based servers and souped them up with flash memory, 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections, the Linux operating system, and a choice between the Memcached distributed memory caching system and the MySQL database.

Schooner claims to deliver eight times the performance of traditional servers, allowing data centers to consolidate onto fewer machines.

“These appliances really hit the core problems of data centers,” namely cost, complexity and data growth, says CEO and co-founder John Busch. The appliances are in beta trials with customers and will ship in the third quarter at a price of $45,000.

Schooner was founded in 2007 by Busch and CTO Thomas McWilliams. Busch was research director of computer system architecture and analysis at Sun laboratories from 1999 through 2006, where he led research in chip-multiprocessing and multitier clustered systems.

This sounds very interesting, I’ll need to read up more, anything we can do to further the performance and scalability of the server platform for Web 2.0/HPC or clould computing has to be a good thing. You can find out more info here. The fact that they are appliances might seem more appealing and evergy efficient than buying more servers when you can consolidate to a shared MYSQL/distributed caching platform

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