DCC's Replacing CDN's for Global Content Distribution

PR Log (Press Release) – Apr 08, 2009 – Content Delivery Networks historically offered two main benefits:

First, they cached static content so you didn't need large numbers of servers and high-capacity Internet links.  Second, they served static content closer to the user by routing traffic geographically.

These two features have become less important in recent years based on two major shifts in the Internet. First, moving content near the user was important years ago when Internet capacity was stretched, backbone bandwidth was limited and user connectivity was largely dial-up.

Second, web applications have become more sophisticated, moving from simple repositories of static content, to full-featured user-customizable portals of primarily dynamic data.

Modern Internet applications are cloud based, content dynamic, and connected to virtually unlimited capacity.  This has shifted the burden of performance from content distribution to content generation.   Today, success depends on scaling dynamic applications that generate content for millions of users, with massive fluctuations in traffic.

Enter the DCC, (Dynamic Cloud Cache).  Using aiCache technology, the existing and potential content of sites can be moved from slow web, application, and database servers, to  the near instantaneous delivery of geographically distributed Dynamic Cloud Caches.

The software nature of aiCache technology allows instances to deployed on global cloud providers like Amazon Web Services.  By Implementing a small number of cloud instances with geographic domain name service, content providers dramatically lower the cost of global distribution, while improving the customer experience.

The real-time nature of dynamic caching allows for monitoring and control that can not be accomplished through traditional CDN's, who can require hours to provide even rudimentary statistics and even longer to implement updates.  With dynamic reporting you see your application performance and users experience in real time, with updates implemented instantly, improving administrator response time.

“The era of Dynamic Cloud Caching is shifting provider's spending back to the creation of better, more flexible applications that scale.” -says Max Robbins President of aiCache.