Ultrafast WordPress Virtual Machine KUSANAGI Now Available for Docker

TOKYO – May 31st, 2015 – Prime Strategy Co., Ltd. (hereby referred to as Prime Strategy) today announced the free version of KUSANAGI Runs on Docker (hereby referred to as KUSANAGI RoD), the world’s fastest WordPress execution environment KUSANAGI, available for Docker. It is capable of an execution time of 3 milliseconds and 1000 requests per second without page caching.

KUSANAGI RoD was developed with the help of Creationline Inc. KUSANAGI RoD's Docker image is available to download from Docker Hub, the shared container service for Docker. We will continue to offer business solutions such as CMS construction, web system development, installation support, and managed services continuing with KUSANAGI RoD.

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To download KUSANAGI RoD, please visit:
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■Comment from Tadahiro Yasuda, President of Creationline Inc.

We are very happy to present KUSANAGI RoD, the Docker version of the super fast virtual machine KUSANAGI, that we developed with Prime Strategy. We decided on dogfooding our corporate site with a migration to KUSANAGI RoD. The results were much more than we even expected. We hope that many people can experience the merits of Docker by using KUSANAGI RoD.

■About Creationline Inc.

Established in January 2006. They are a group of technical experts with knowledge in efficient operational monitoring such as design of high-grade storage and networks with high availability, creation of sophisticated software that produces data analysis algorithms and microservices, and automation of all services from infrastructure up. They have many clients such as domestic and overseas major telecommunications carriers, data centers, and service providers. For more details about their services, please visit their website.
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■About Ultrafast WordPress Virtual Machine KUSANAGI

KUSANAGI is a free and open source virtual machine image developed by Prime Strategy, and it is the world's fastest WordPress execution environment. Even without using page caching, a quad-core CPU WordPress execution time is 3 milliseconds and requests per second surpass 1000. If you choose to use page caching, requests per second will increase to the 60,000 range.

◆KUSANAGI Framework

・WordPress latest version (KUSANAGI dedicated plug-ins included)
・CentOS 7
・Nginx 1.10
・Apache 2.4
・HHVM 3.13
・PHP 7.0 (php-fpm, Cli)
・PHP 5.6 (php-fpm, Cli)
・MariaDB Galera Server 10.0
※ In order to use PHP 7, you need WordPress version 4.4 or above

For more information about KUSANAGI, please visit:
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■KUSANAGI Development Policy

More than 25% of the world's websites now use WordPress. Many people are already enjoying its merits. But on the other hand, large-scale sites have begun to wonder if they can use it, too. In order to meet their demand, we developed the world's fastest WordPress execution environment KUSANAGI. KUSANAGI offers the latest technology and solutions as well as increased convenience and an improved operating environment for people already using WordPress. We hope to further develop KUSANAGI to make one of WordPress' merits "high speed".

■About Prime Strategy Group

Prime Strategy Group is a cloud integrator solving the issues of cloud computing for global companies, beginning with Asia. With presences in Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia, we offer cloud integration services, mainly in the form of SI and MSP on cloud platforms.

On the business front, we architect web systems for government bodies as well as corporations that represent both domestic and foreign industries. These include the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Tokyo, TV Asahi, Mynavi, Adobe Systems, JTB Asia Pacific, and Bank Negara Indonesia. We have also constructed many large-scale WordPress sites in Japan.

We created the Ultrafast WordPress Virtual Machine KUSANAGI from years of experience. The VM is offered for free on most major cloud platforms, and we recommend KUSANAGI Fully Managed Service as a one-stop tuning and maintenance service from server to WordPress itself.

For more information about KUSANAGI Fully Managed Service, please visit:
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