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Virident Unveils GreenCloud Server for MySQL at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Virident Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the GreenCloudTM Server for MySQL, a new server which brings ‘in-memory' computing on an exceptional scale to Sun Microsystems' MySQL™ database. The new server was launched today at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo, where Virident is a Diamond Sponsor. Vijay Karamcheti, Virident CTO and Cofounder, will deliver a Keynote Address to the conference on Wednesday at 8:30AM entitled, "Extreme Performance and SmartScaling MySQL with Storage Class Memory Servers." GreenCloud innovates with a revolutionary new server designed to deliver high-performance, energy- and cost-efficient computing in the data tier of the Internet data center. The GreenCloud Server for MySQL is a complete hardware and software solution based upon the MySQL Community Server, and includes Virident-optimized versions of the MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines providing compatibility for existing data sets. In a separate announcement today, Virident announced they have licensed InnoDB from InnoBase/Oracle for the GreenCloud Server. "Virident's GreenCloud Server for MySQL is a new platform designed to deliver `in-memory,' high performance computing to MySQL users - and helps to show the potential of MySQL for cloud computing," said Mark Herring, vice president, MySQL and Software Infrastructure marketing, Sun Microsystems. "We welcome Virident and their innovative hardware and software solution to our open source community. MySQL has become the database standard for Web scale-out, and we always appreciate technologies that enable MySQL users to lower the costs, and increase the scalability and performance of their database applications." GreenCloud Delivers Extreme Performance Gains and Enhanced Scalability for MySQL* GreenCloud innovates by enabling the MySQL database to reside entirely `in-memory' in very large memory configurations - from 128GB to 512GB today. When compared to production systems which often split the MySQL database between DRAM and disk, GreenCloud can deliver extreme application-level performance for MySQL. 50-70x* improvements in application performance have been observed on typical data center workloads that involve random access to small block sizes common to web workloads. While industry standard servers typically feature two-tiers of storage — DRAM and disk — the Virident GreenCloud Server for MySQL adds a new tier of high performance ‘storage class memory' to break the ‘memory bottleneck' responsible for low efficiency in today's ‘scale-out' database tiers. This new storage class memory tier pioneers the use of non-volatile enterprise-class flash as additional main memory in a server - which can deliver high bandwidth, low latency and random access at small block sizes to very large data sets. In production database environments, GreenCloud breaks through the 64GB practical ‘in-memory' limit on production systems. GreenCloud offers persistence in this expanded memory tier, keeping data ‘always available' when a server is restarted in a cluster, minimizing down time. GreenCloud for MySQL also provides multiple hardware and software protection technologies (ViriSafe), which deliver enterprise-class reliability. While SSD's are becoming increasingly popular in the data center, GreenCloud delivers orders of magnitude more application performance (7x+* compared to the current generation of PCIe based SSD solutions). This is made possible both by the unique storage class memory technology, but equally by optimized versions of the InnoDB storage engine. This optimized software takes full advantage of the storage class memory tier (implemented initially using NOR Flash) in the GreenCloud server, capable of much lower latency and higher read bandwidth than less efficient storage subsystems based on NAND Flash today. "Virident's new platform delivers extreme performance on real world query sets and schemas," said Frank Mashraqi, well known member of the MySQL community and VP Technology for NetEdge (former Director of Business Operations and Technical Strategy of Fotolog). "In my testing of GreenCloud, I have seen a 50-70x improvement on MySQL database benchmarks relative to industry standard severs, and the ability to do innovative new operations ‘in-memory' (such as multi-table joins). The GreenCloud platform represents a very innovative new approach to cloud computing in the data center." GreenCloud Enables a Scalable Data Tier - with Server Consolidation, Less Complexity and Lower TCO* GreenCloud pioneers the concept of SmartScaling MySQL and offers reductions in cost and complexity at the cluster level. Databases which need to be frequently replicated or sharded can be complex to architect, manage and maintain, and the low level of overall system utilization in the cluster means high costs which can be a drag on profitability. By providing a higher performance core building block for MySQL applications, companies have the ability to scale capacity in the existing data center footprint, or consolidate servers yet maintain current service levels, and benefit from a more manageable database tier, deferring or eliminating sharding and up to 60% TCO savings according to performance and costing benchmarks. Said Virident CTO and co-founder Vijay Karamcheti, "GreenCloud just may be the world's fastest and most scalable MySQL server. According to recent benchmark studies*, the improvements in performance, scalability, manageability and energy and cost efficiency for MySQL are compelling and represent a fundamentally new and better approach to building a large scale database infrastructure. We are excited by the performance gains we have been able to deliver through the optimization of our platform for MySQL and we are confident that the GreenCloud Server for MySQL will become a standard building block for the MySQL database tier." Pricing and Availability The GreenCloud Server for MySQL, a 2U rack server with dual quad-core CPU's and with 80GB-576GB of ‘in-memory' dataset capacity, is priced beginning at $6,000 in the United States. Each GreenCloud Server for MySQL comes bundled with the complete software environment (consisting of MySQL, MyISAM, and InnoDB). About Sun's MySQL Database MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. At www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community. About Virident Systems, Inc. The Virident GreenCloud server platform is designed to lead a new wave of cloud computing innovation in the data center. GreenCloud helps companies scale and improve data-centric services, meeting customer needs in the most cost-effective manner: securely, reliably, simply, and in an industry standard architecture. The GreenCloud Server Family improves overall datacenter efficiency, lowers TCO and enables you to SmartScale, meaning customers can ‘do more with less'. GreenCloud Servers are based on the breakthrough GreenGateway technology, and deliver ‘in-memory' computing - very low latency, high bandwidth and rapid access to very large datasets. Founded in 2006 by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Sun, Cisco, SGI, Google and Intel, Virident has offices in Milpitas, California and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.virident.com. *According to standard industry performance benchmarks as reported at http://www.virident.com/benchmark in "GreenCloud for MySQL Performance Brief No. 1: April 2009." Virident™, GreenCloud™, the Virident™ logo, GreenGateway™ and the Virident "leaf" are trademarks of Virident Systems. Sun, Sun Microsystems and MySQL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names used are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
