In a distributed cache, the cached data doesn’t reside in the memory of an individual web server. Rather, this data is stored centrally so that it is available to all of the application’s servers.

Because the list of service URLs is stored in the distributed cache, the fact that Server A went bad is communicated to the other clients as well. Distributed caches find use in conventional J2EE ...

Microsoft has unveiled a distributed in-memory application cache platform it says will boost the performance and scalability of .NET apps. The company describes the server -- dubbed Project "Velocity" ...

One company trying to leverage this shift in enterprise computing focus is NorthScale, which recently announced a free offering based on the open source memcached distributed cache server. According ...