Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education Preview

[MYK-IT]

Supporting scenarios that are important to enterprises

While Delivery Optimization is mostly known for being a peer-to-peer delivery solution, it’s also the downloader that pulls update content in Windows from the cloud and provides enterprise and education users with tools to manage bandwidth traffic, throttling capabilities, and more.

 

Connected Cache technology complements Delivery Optimization as a dedicated software caching solution that can be deployed within enterprise and education organizations’ networks. Once deployed to host machines within a network, Connected Cache nodes will transparently and dynamically cache the Microsoft-published content that downstream Windows devices need to download. Using this solution, content requests from Delivery Optimization can be served by the locally deployed Connected Cache node instead of the cloud. This results in fast, bandwidth-efficient delivery across connected devices. Microsoft worked closely with numerous enterprise and education organizations to gather information about their bandwidth management needs. We used the great feedback we received to develop Connected Cache as a solution that supports the scenarios most important to you.

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/microsoft-connected-cache-for-enterprise-and-education-preview/ba-p/4277035

[StephenPink]

Think they'll add OneDrive/Sharepoint content to this as an option? That could be very useful...

[SYNACK]

Good that they are working on it but why do they have to make it so complicated. You can do the same thing on the Apple side with a Mac by clicking a checkbox.

 

https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/mac-help/mchl3b6c3720/mac

 

It seems extremely gate keepy to have to set the whole thing up in azure just for some cache. Higher security - probably, easier to bill for definitely.

[Brimstone]

Well well well MS finally launch a caching solution, something that Apple have had for about 10 years...