"Elastic caching" is a hot buzz-phrase, with most of the attention coming from the cloud and virtualization. It has emerged as the solution dujour to the inherent limitations of the scale-out ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In-memory technology provider Terracotta, Inc. has announced that javax.cache, a caching standard for Java applications, has entered Draft Review Stage under the Java Community Process. It provides a ...

The fall elections for 13 open seats on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) were held in October, and some new members have joined the august body charged with guiding the ...

Terracotta has acquired EHCache, making it in turn an attractive acquisition target for VMWare. In any case, the acquisition is good for customer awareness and adoption Terracotta, an open source Java ...

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Red Hat will launch a preview of a new commercial enterprise Java data caching technology, based on its experimental Infinispan data grid software, the company announced Tuesday. JBoss Enterprise Data ...