It’s Monday morning, everyone’s hammering the servers, and your customers want the information yesterday. Part of the remote branch IT blues is that it can be darn hard to get quick access to the data stored at the company’s central office when you need it Right Now.
With Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has [...]
Caching used to be so simple. You used caching on uniprocessor, single user systems to free yourself from the prison of slow I/O, whether that I/O was from the system bus to the processor or, from the hard drive to the bus. As multiple-CPU systems, multi-user systems and the Web became commonplace, simply placing fast [...]
The easiest way to give any computer more oomph is to add a cache. In the eternal race of CPU vs. memory access speeds, [...]
