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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schooner Information Technology, Inc., a provider of high-performance data access appliances for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters, was selected by the Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2009 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. The annual Best of Show awards provide the premier opportunity for industry recognition of innovative products and solutions, and how they are used in real-world applications.

Schooner products, including the Schooner Appliance for Memcached and the Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise™, are enabled by 512 GB of Intel® X25-E Extreme™ SATA Solid-State Drives and dual quad-core Intel® Xeon™ 5500 "Nehalem" processors. Schooner appliances support up to eight times the workload of ordinary servers, and scaling is as easy as adding more Schooner appliances.

“Schooner has proven that flash is ready for the enterprise,” said Peter Zaitsev, founder and chief executive officer, Percona Consulting. “The Schooner appliances directly address real-world datacenter problems of cost, scaling and performance.”

Winning companies were judged by a panel of industry experts who evaluated each nomination according to the following criteria:

* Distinctiveness of the application, technology or product
* Central use of flash memory as a solution or innovation
* Technical and business significance to the general marketplace

“The judges of the Flash Memory Summit Awards Committee had the challenging assignment of selecting the most innovative technology application from an incredibly large pool of quality submissions,” said Jay Kramer, chairman of the awards program and vice president of worldwide marketing of SEPATON. “We are proud to select the Schooner Information Technology data access appliances utilizing Intel’s X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive for the best of show innovation award.”

Schooner Information Technology was honored at the Flash Memory Summit Awards evening reception in the Exhibit Hall on Wednesday, August 12.

In his acceptance speech, Dr. John Busch, president and chief executive officer of Schooner Information Technology, dedicated the award, “to the Schooner teams in Silicon Valley and Hangzhou, China, whose passion and commitment enabled us to deliver totally competitive, award-winning products the day we entered the market.” He continued, thanking Schooner partners IBM and Intel, and finally called out Schooner customers, saying, “Schooner is not technology for technology’s sake. We created Schooner because we saw a way to use breakthrough technology to help customers solve real-world problems, to save energy, to save money, and to help achieve their business goals.”

For a complete list of all the Flash Memory Summit Best of Show awards winners, visit www.flashmemorysummit.com.

About Schooner

Schooner Information Technology provides data access application appliances for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters. Schooner solutions are fast, scalable, cost-effective and green. Schooner customers save power and space, reduce total cost of ownership, and create new business opportunities based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and is venture funded by CMEA Capital, Menlo Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. For more information, please visit www.schoonerinfotech.com or @schoonerinfo on Twitter.

About Flash Memory Summit

Flash Memory Summit is the only conference dedicated entirely to flash memory and its applications. It is intended for system designers, analysts, hardware and software engineers, product marketing and marketing communications specialists, and engineering and marketing managers. It features forums, half-day tutorials, paper and panel sessions, and expert tables. Subjects include laptops and netbooks, enterprise storage system applications, consumer products, performance, product design, caching methods, design methods, software, new technologies, market research, testing and reliability, and security. The Summit also includes exhibits of the latest products and product awards. For more information, visit www.flashmemorysummit.com. Twitter: @flashmem.

About Conference ConCepts, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Conference ConCepts is a full-service professional conference and association management company that provides extensive capabilities in all aspects of technical conference management. Conference ConCepts develops and produces events both on its own, and in partnership with associations, corporations, and publishers. The skill sets of the company’s employees and contractors, representing over 200 cumulative years of experience, enables Conference ConCepts to offer clients a choice of services, ranging from assistance with a single aspect of a conference to the complete development and administration of a full-fledged “turnkey” event. For more information about Conference ConCepts, visit: http://www.confconcepts.com.
Contacts

Schooner Information Technology, Inc.
Fred Love, 650-328-4200 ext. 7130
flove@schoonerinfotech.com
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Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Laurie Falconer, 415-512-0770
schooner@schwartz-pr.com
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