NetCache

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NetCache
Original author(s) NetApp
Final release
6.0.7
Platform Cross platform; Data ONTAP
Type web cache

NetCache is a former web cache software product which was owned and developed by NetApp between 1997 and 2006, and a hardware product family incorporating the NetCache software.

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History

The NetCache software started as a commercial fork of the Harvest Object Cache [1] [2] developed by Internet Middleware Corporation (IMC), which consisted of former Harvest project developers including Peter B. Danzig, a professor at University of Southern California. [3] In late 1996 the software was named Internet Middleware Object Cache, [4] and it was referred to as Cached 2 and later Cached 3. [5] [6]

In 1997 IMC was acquired by NetApp, and the software was renamed NetCache, with Danzig becoming chief architect and CTO of NetCache division. [3]

In 2006 NetApp sold the NetCache business (but not technology) to Blue Coat Systems, [7] [8] who had a similar line of ProxySG appliances which became the more expensive product for existing NetApp customers. [9]

Hardware appliance

The hardware NetCache appliance included the NetApp Data ONTAP microkernel, with its Write Anywhere File Layout file system, achieving four times the throughput as software equivalents available at time, according to NetApp comparisons. [10] Starting with ONTAP version 9.5 similar functionality was introduced under FlexCache name.

Models

As of November 2005, three hardware models were being offered: [11]

Former models include: [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Brian Wink". Usenix.org. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  2. ↑ "NetCache Technical Paper" . Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  3. 1 2 Chris Nermey (21 July 1997). "New Web Caching boxes promise better bandwidth control". Network World .
  4. ↑ "Internet Middleware Object Cache: Cached-2". Internet Middleware Corporation. September 10, 1996. Archived from the original on November 12, 1996. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  5. ↑ "The Harvest Cache and Httpd-Accelerator". 1996-11-22. Archived from the original on November 22, 1996. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  6. ↑ "Building a web cache system - Architectural Considerations". CiteSeerX   10.1.1.57.1141 . Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  7. ↑ Chris Williams (23 June 2006). "NetApp flogs NetCache to Blue Coat". The Register.
  8. ↑ Rebecca Munro (19 October 2006). "Blue Coat looks for partners to help NetCache transition". ARNnet.
  9. ↑ Bryan Betts (26 June 2006). "NetApp sells NetCache to Blue Coat". Techworld. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  10. ↑ Peter Danzig (February 1997). "NetCache Architecture and Deployment". CiteSeerX   10.1.1.27.8507 .{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); also Danzig, Peter (25 November 1998). "NetCache Architecture and Deployment". Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. 30 (22–23): 2081–2091. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.27.8507 . doi:10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00250-5. Archived from the original on 1999-05-08.
  11. ↑ NetApp (November 2005). "NetCache hardware Product Family" (PDF).[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ NetApp (2005). "NetCache hardware Product Family" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22.

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