Re: Web cache solutions in 2010

That's in interesting question.  My initial thoughts are that web caches have fallen out of fashion, at least in the data center.   End user caching (office connectivity), and WAN optimization still seems to be in play, but other than that.  

There are some caching solutions that have been integrated into load balancers, such as Cisco's ACE and F5's LTM, and on the value market KEMP's offerings.  But as far as standalone devices go, I haven't seen one of them deployed in quite a while.  

Tony


On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote:

> After so many mergers, acquisitions, product line sells and
> discontinuing I've lost track of what would be good cache solutions
> these days.
> Requirements:
> 1) Transparent caching, every request should be made on behalf(IP
> address) of the original request
> 2) Some kind of easy fail-over; doesn't need to be electrical but it
> wouldn't hurt
> Added benefits:
> 3) WAN optimization targeted at web applications would be nice to have
> 4) TCP satellite acceleration of non-cacheable apps would be nice to have
> 5) Software-only version (due to high custom taxes, hardware will
> always cost more)
> Totally useless features:
> - Policy control (which seems to be the focus these days)
> - Websense or alike integration
> - Pointy-Haired-Boss reports (destination websites and so forth)
> 
> 
> Bluecoat is one vendor I already identified after some googling, but
> comments on its technology are welcom.
> Open-source recommendations are welcome as well, provided they target
> operation quality dependability.
> 
> 
> Tks,
> Rubens
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