| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Web 2.0Cloud ComputingData centers |
| Founded | Menlo Park, California (2007) |
| Founder | John Busch Tom McWilliams |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
| Parent | SanDisk |
Schooner Information Technology, Inc. provideddatabase management system appliances forWeb 2.0,cloud computing anddata centers. It was headquartered inSunnyvale, California, and acquired bySanDisk in 2012.
Schooner Information Technology was founded by John R. Busch and Thomas M. McWilliams in February 2007.[1] An investment of about $7 million in November 2007 included CMEA Ventures andRedpoint Ventures.[1] The investment was increased to $15 million by November 2008.[2]
Schooner appliances were designed to reducetotal cost of ownership and be compatible withMemcached andMySQL. The Schooner appliances were marketed for Web 2.0, cloud computing and enterprise data centers.[3][4]
After the2008 financial crisis, Schooner was one of only a few to receive venture investment.[5]On April 13, 2009, Schooner announcedIBM would resell its appliance for MySQL Enterprise and one for Memcached.[6][7]Another round of $20 million investment was announced in July 2009, led byMenlo Ventures.[8][9]
Schooner's appliances were originally built on theIBM System x server withNehalem dual four-core processors fromIntel Corporation, 64GB ofdynamic random access memory, 512 GB of Intel X25-Esolid-state drives, fourGigabit Ethernet ports and in a 2rack unit appliance, with the ability to expand.[10]
By early 2011, the tie to IBM hardware ended. Instead, the product was sold as software that could run on other brands of computers.[11] In April 2011, Schooner announced support for usingcluster computing with theInnoDB technology.[10]SanDisk acquired the company with undisclosed terms in June 2012 and it operated as a subsidiary of SanDisk.[12][13]The Memcached software was marketed with the name Membrain through about mid-2014.[14]
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