Original author(s) Development status Discontinued | Stable release 6.0.7 Type web cache | |
Platform Cross platform; Data ONTAP | ||
NetCache is a former web cache software product which was owned and developed by NetApp between 1997 and 2006, and a hardware product family incorporating the NetCache software.
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History
The NetCache software started as a commercial fork of the Harvest Object Cache developed by Internet Middleware Corporation (IMC), which consisted of former Harvest project developers including Peter B. Danzig, a professor at University of Southern California. In late 1996 the software was named Internet Middleware Object Cache, and it was referred to as Cached 2 and later Cached 3.
In 1997 IMC was acquired by NetApp, and the software was renamed NetCache, with Danzig becoming chief architect and CTO of NetCache division.
In 2006 NetApp sold the NetCache business (but not technology) to Blue Coat Systems, who had a similar line of ProxySG appliances which became the desired upgrade path for existing NetApp customers.
Hardware appliance
The hardware NetCache appliance included the NetApp Data ONTAP microkernel, with its Write Anywhere File Layout file system, achieving four times the throughput as software equivalents available at time, according to NetApp comparisons.
Models
As of November 2005, three hardware models were being offered:
Former models include: