It is predicted that all large applications will use a distributed data cache as the initial tier for all data access. This session presents an overview of "Velocity," Microsoft's distributed in-memory cache, and shows how it works with IIS, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server Data Services.
  • Murali Krishnaprasad
    I am a principal architect of Velocity - the distributed caching platform. Before Microsoft I worked in the Oracle database engine building the object-relational support, XMLDB, XQuery and secure enterprise search product.
Resources: Powerpoint Deck

Microsoft's Velocity CTP2 announcement couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Every Major distributed caching solution provider is announcing a new version.

Alachisoft has come out with  (NCache 3.4). Being the premier distributed caching solution in the .NET arena, the range of features that NCache currently showcases is highly competitive and revolutionary. For a complete list of features: NCache Features

NCache has a 60 day trial period for the enterprise and developer editions. There is also a totally free version called NCache Express

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Sarah Williams.