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, ...

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 * ...

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 ...

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 ...