Without warning, Google updated Gmail so that images are now cached. To understand what impact this may have requires that we start by understanding what has changed and how six pieces of information ...

So when you load these images, you aren't just receiving an image—you're also sending a ton of data about yourself to the e-mail marketer. ... it will cache all images for Gmail users.

Find out how and why you should clear out your internet cache with our step-by-step guide. If you experience issues with your ...

When you use the internet on your laptop, tablet, or phone, your browser stores information about the sites you visit and how you engage with them to improve loading speed and personalize your ...

Our long-term vision is that caching is something that no developer ever has to think about again. You just hook ReadySet up to your application and it handles understanding what needs to be ...

Web browsers, by design, will store a lot of information — image data, form data, etcetera — for each website you visit in order to load them faster on return trips.

A data center for a major web service such as Google or Facebook might have as many as 1,000 servers dedicated just to caching. Cache servers generally use random-access memory (RAM), which is ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. A typical Web application looks like the one at the top: multiple time wasting trips to the Web Server and, from there, to the database server. Smarter, ...

The global volume, velocity and variety of data are all increasing, and these three dimensions of the data deluge—the massive growth of digital information—are what make Hadoop software ideal for ...

“Currently applications are limited to data caching technologies that require complex configuration and management of 10-plus-year-old technology constrained to a few data centers,” Bains says.