Caching
Primers and tutorials
Internet Caching Resource Center
Offers a tutorial, white papers, vendor and product information, news, articles, standards, a buyer's guide and more. Free registration required.
Internet Research Group.
Information Resource: Caching FAQs
Includes a list of software and products.
What is DNS caching?
A definition.
Vicomsoft.
LAN-based Web Caching Q&A From Vicomsoft.
Data Caching: A Means to Higher Performance
White paper: a basic overview of reading caching on disk drives and adaptive caching.
Seagate Technology.
Caching Service
A short overview of Web caching in general and the caching activities of Switch, Web caching project of Switch and list of proxies.
Switch.
Cache Now! campaign
Designed to increase the awareness and use of proxy cache on the Web. Contains a lot of caching links.
The National Janet Web Cache Service (UK)
The site offers extensive information on caching -- tutorials for configuring caches, statistics, background info, surveys and Web resources.
Brian D. Davison's Web Caching Resources
Includes tutorial, caching news, market analysis, discussions, comparisons, tools and other cool resources.
Webcaching.com
Web Replication and Caching (WREC) Working Group
The home page of the IETF working group on Web replication and caching.
IETF.
Links to caching Web sites
Links2go.com
Web caching links
Software and products: commercial and noncommercial (Squid, Harvest, CERN, Lagoon and others).
IRCache
A group devoted to research and development in the field of Web caching.
National Science Foundation.
CacheFlow
Caching solutions and products, caching news, technology overview, white papers and technical support.
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
From Network Appliance.
A Caching Relay for the World Wide Web
A paper describing the design and performance of a caching relay for the Web. It examines how the behavior of users affects the performance of the relay.
Digital.
World-Wide Web Cache Consistency
A research paper.
Microsoft/Harvard.
A Distributed Testbed for National Information Provisioning
A project to facilitate the evolution of an efficient national architecture for handling highly popular information.
A Caching Model of Operating System Kernel Functionality
Computer Science Department,
Stanford University.
Web Caching System Design Checklist
A short checklist version of a longer detailed Web caching architecture document (link to the full document included).
Ingrid Melve.
An Enhanced Disk-Caching NFS Implementation for Linux
A paper discussing enhancements to the Linux NFS client that improve performance, including better lookup and attribute caching, asynchronous writing of data, and local disk caching of data file reads.
Washington University.
A 3W3 Cache Workshop
A list of research papers discussing caching architecture, deployment, types of caching, servers, hierarchy, and more.
CacheOS Technology Overview
CacheFlow products contain CacheOS, a patent-pending embedded operating system.
CacheFlow.
CacheFlow Products
Data sheets for CacheFlow 110, CacheFlow 500ec, CacheFlow 3000, CacheFlow 5000 and Content Filtering.
InfoLibria
Their DynaCache is a self-contained caching and distributed content product consuming minimal space.
Inktomi Traffic Server overview
Novell Internet Caching System overview
Caching solutions from Vicomsoft
Browsing and retrieval of cached content and content management.
DeleGate
A multi-purpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms, mediating communication of various protocols, applying cache and conversion.
Microsoft Proxy Server
Firewall and Web Cache Server-deployment and support.
NetCache appliances
Caching and storage appliances for UNIX, Windows and the Web.
Network Appliances.
Industrial Code and Logic
CacheXpress family of products - Squid-based Web cache.
ICS CacheMachine
Caching & Content Filtering Proxy Server.
Mirror Image
Offers instaSpeedSM Managed Caching Services.
Local/shared caching
1.51 of Shared LAN Cache. This version adds enhanced caching to Windows NT and numerous other features.
Measurement Techniques.
Web Polygraph
A freely available benchmarking tool for Web caching proxies.
National Science Foundation/Lucent Technologies.
Cache Viewer - freeware
Cache View allows you to easily view cached files and can even reconstruct the names and directory paths.
Tucows.
Cache Engine Series
Cisco.
Product reviews and commentary
Interactive Buyer's Guide
Find the caching device that's right for you or compare two or more devices in a variety of categories, with our detailed database of product specs.
Network World.
Cache panache
Effectively placed caching hardware can help you deliver fresh Web pages to end users, improve the efficiency and cut access costs.
Network World, 04/10/00.
Review and buyer's guide: Caching hardware
Network World, 04/10/00.
Recipe for a cache bake-off
Network World reviews 20 products.
Network World, 04/10/00.
Caching debate rages
Leading Web-caching vendors catch flack for a communications protocol they developed to support load balancing and network-traffic redirection.
Network World, 04/17/00.
Caching bake-off leaves sour taste
InfoLibria was the winner in the first vendor-neutral caching benchmark test held at the University of California at San Diego, although Novell made a strong showing with its beta Internet Caching System software running on a Dell server. Both companies were guaranteed a decent ranking after five participants dropped out.
Network World, 4/12/99.
Review: Wares extraordinaire
Akamai Technologies' FreeFlow.
Network World, 11/99.
'Net cache speeds response time
CacheFlow's new high-end caching appliances may help provide bandwidth and speedy access for network managers building Web front ends for large enterprise applications and network services.
Network World, 5/31/99.
Novell, Foundry team to speed Web site traffic
Novell is teaming with Foundry Networks to deliver transparent cache switching, a way to speed inbound Web pages to the end user and save network bandwidth.
Network World, 5/10/99.
Tool kit for improving Web site performance
Includes packet shapers, caching appliances and load balancers.
Network World, 11/01/99.
Review of loadbalancing products
Network World, 06/14/99.
Microsoft Proxy Server helps Oceanic Cable
The server delivers high-performance Internet service to its cable modem customers and provide its corporate network with secure, fast Internet access
Microsoft.
Law firm defends move from software to hardware caching
Network World, 04/10/00.
Exodus teams with ArrowPoint to offer new caching services
Network World, 03/06/00.
Caching Proxies: Limitations and Potentials
A case study of workloads.
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