For the most part, the servers in a datacenter are generally sitting idle. In fact, 90 percent of the compute power is wasted in today's datacenter, said John Busch, president and chief executive of Schooner (Menlo Park, Calif.).

Plus, there is a shift from a centralized to a de-centralized model in the datacenter, where the memory, storage and other building blocks are being ''de-coupled,'' Busch said.

''That's a bad shift,'' he said during a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) here. The industry must move back to its roots, where systems--or integrated building blocks--are tightly coupled, he said.

Today's datacenters also face spiraling costs and power consumption issues. To solve the problem, Schooner and others have recently rolled out a new class of data access appliances, based on flash memory.

The Schooner family of appliances incorporate enterprise-class flash memory, based on SLC flash memory from Intel Corp. The systems also include multi-core processors, low-latency interconnect, and optimized data access and caching applications.

Schooner launched two breakthrough products that pioneer a new generation of data access solutions: the Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise and the Schooner Appliance for Memcached.