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, ...

Arun Agarwal, co-founder and CEO, and Scott Davis, longtime friend and CTO, both of Infinio dropped by the other day to both introduce the company and discuss the problem they're solving. Although I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is and what does it do? I tried google search, which gave a result at seagate.com that ended up 404 and a search there resulted in no results. People selling Seagate drives have it listed as a ...

SanDisk has built itself a decent reputation in the SSD game, and a cheap cache-only drive is a logical addition to its line. Unlike regular SSD or hybrid upgrades, you don't have to transfer your ...