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  • aiCache and Amazon bring the cloud home.

    Posted by on November 25th, 2010

    aiCache web acceleration instances are now available on the Amazon Web Services platform. Companies looking to reduce cost, scale their web applications and bring stability to their environment can now front-end their websites using aiCache technology in the cloud. aiCache instances can reduce resource utilization in the web farm by 50 to 80% by capturing [...]

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  • Control aicache via programmable plugins

    Posted by on November 3rd, 2010

    aiCache Plug-in Support. Starting with version 6 of aiCache, you can provide your own logic to execute when requests enter aiCache. You can have such logic executed for all requests, requests for certain website or requests matching certain patterns. You code has access to most of request’s information, including URI, body , Agent, Referrer, Cookies, [...]

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  • Last man standing; CNBC soars with aiCache & Dyn on the largest financial news day ever.

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    In the last 12 months CNBC.COM deployed aiCache for their main financial and mobile websites.  In December  they moved the to our Dynamic Cloud Cache (DCC’s), a solution based on aiCache instances with  geo-routing by Dyn.com. Details On the 6th of May the financial market moved over 1000 points and drove the highest financial news traffic day [...]

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  • Bending the TTL’s. Dynamic traffic adaptation by aiCache

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    The secret of caching is controlling the freshness of content.  This is managed using (TTL’s) Time To Live settings.  These settings balance the speed of delivery with the freshness of content by controlling how frequently content is generated. Website admins struggle to balance content freshness and speed of delivery.  The challenge is that  settings that [...]

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  • Using aiCache to facilitate website transition

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    aiCache’s pattern and origin server tagging (os_tag directive) is ideally suited for easing the typical chores of website transitions. Many an IT professional shiver at the mere mentioning of this two words: website transition. It doesn’t have to be painful. Let’s imagine that Acme Inc has its current website of news.acme.com hosted with a legacy [...]

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  • Using aiCache to address AJAX cross-domain limitations

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    aiCache’s pattern and origin server tagging (os_tag directive) is ideally suited for addressing the well known limitation of AJAX cross-domain scripting. As you may well be aware, the XMLHttpRequest object (aka XMLHTTP object in Internet Explorer) is the centerpiece of today’s AJAX-driven web applications. Many a popular site owes its rich functionality and responsive interface [...]

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  • aiCache Content-driven Caching Control

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    aiCache makes it possible to control whether or not a web page is cacheable, based on page’s (response) content. For example, www.acmenews.com/breakingnews.aspx web page is normally cached for 10 seconds, unless editorial team decides to publish a survey (poll) on that page, in which case you cannot cache the page for as long as the [...]

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  • aiCache releases Industry first software-based SSL Acceleration

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    aiCache brings a new level of Web Acceleration to the market with the release of Version Six of its flagship product, aiCache Web Application Accelerator. With an architecture supporting and linearly scaling up to unlimited number of CPU cores, it provides virtually unlimited scalability for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. aiCache solves the industry issue of [...]

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  • aiCache Enables The Industries First Acceleration Of Sites Requiring Registration And Log

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    aiCache allows you to cache a site’s content and enforce the registration/login policy. Users that are not logged in or registered, will not be allowed to view cached content and will be subject to normal handling; i.e. “asked to register and sign in to view the content.” Let take an example news website “www.acmetimes.com”. The [...]

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  • aiCache for no-overhead error reporting

    Posted by on October 25th, 2010

    You might need a method to allow reporting of assorted error conditions. For example, your web site might offer videos, breaking news and other APIs that are invoked by AJAX or some other form of client-side Javascript. When these APIs fail to respond, you would like to have some way to report the error condition [...]

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