SIEVE is a new approach to web caching that's simpler and more effective than today's state-of-the-art algorithms, its creators claim — and big tech companies are taking notice. When you purchase ...

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, ...

An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than the innards of a typical hard drive, so ...

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 * ...

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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 ...

Transistors keep getting smaller and smaller, enabling computer chip designers to develop faster computer chips. But no matter how fast the chip gets, moving data from one part of the machine to ...