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 ...

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, ...

The widespread shift to remote working has significantly accelerated the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and services. In April 2020 for instance, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella provided some ...

This article is the second in a series on the design of the Reiser4 filesystem. The first article [LJ, December 2002] defined basic concepts: trees, nodes and items. This article explains why balanced ...

Caching makes your RAID array go faster. But if you lose power your data can be corrupted. The old solution: a battery. The new and better solution: flash memory - with a twist. Disks are about 1 ...

Apart from main memory and disk drives, modern computers are equipped with multiple levels of cache, in order to bridge the gap between the CPU's processing speed and the access latency of main memory ...

At AWS, where system efficiency directly impacts millions of customers and operational costs, Vignesh Natarajan's groundbreaking optimization of the dangling pointer evaluation algorithm stands as a ...