Accelerating delivery of personalized Web content: enjoy the same advantages as static-content publishers. (Special to WSDJ).

Web-caching technologies offer great advantages to static-content publishers, including improved (faster) response times for end users and reduced data center workload. Further, because these technologies are based upon an open standard (HTTP), content publishers have a choice of solution providers, including hardware-based and software-based solutions, as well as service offerings on commercial content-distribution networks, such as Akamai Technologies' EdgeSuite

Unfortunately, traditional caching technologies offer minimal benefit to personalized Web content (because caching provides more benefit to content that's shareable by multiple users). As a result, application …