Caching News & Articles

They ran in same technical circles -- NoSQL cool kids. Membase had an open CTO search; CouchOne (news, site) had an open CEO search. It was a match made in data management heaven. Membase and CouchOne have announced their merger to form Couchbase. What does this merger mean for users and the noSQL movement?

The Web's days of innocence -- where it was just used to post the digital equivalent of static brochures -- are long past. Today we expect to do everything over the web, no matter how forced and cludgy it has to work under the hood to accomplish our goals. Fortunately, there are people willing to wade into the mind-numbing realm of protocols and data streams in order to improve it all.

Terracotta, a software company you may know for their expertise in the caching and Java departments, recently acquired a similar company called Ehcache. This particular fusion has got some experts and various parts of the enterprise high off the expectation that it will yield data management tools that scale applications seamlessly.

Likewise, CMS people are in on the excitement as EHCache is a component within other Java products, including Alfresco CMS and Liferay.

Vignette understands the importance of providing a dynamic, relevant and most of all, speedy web experience for customers. It’s kicking things up a notch with its latest High-Performance Delivery (HPD) software; an expansion on its Web Experience Platform.

HPD delivers a unique caching technology that automatically tracks dependencies on publishing events or site changes and immediately updates the Web site cache when those changes occur, helping organizations deliver faster and richer user experiences with emphasis on speed, speed, speed!