The caching of content from disk storage to high-speed memory is a proven technology for reducing read latency and improving application-level performance. The problem with traditional caching, ...

Object caching is an important piece in the design and development of Web portals. In a typical Web portal application, we need the frequently accessed data in a JVM's memory, but, at the same time, ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

Before we can do any caching, we need something to cache. Here's a simple DataProvider class that has a couple of expensive operations in its interface: /** * @author adrian at aspectprogrammer.org * ...

Two NX-3500 WAN-optimization devices from Silver Peak Systems performed admirably under testing, and we suspect that 2-year-old Silver Peak will become a major contender in the WAN-optimization market ...

Flash storage provides significantly more performance (IOPS and throughput) and lower latency than hard disk-based media. Of course, flash comes with a higher price tag – up to 10 times more than ...