Caches, thrashes and smashes

Even as George Gilder promises the world that bandwidth will be infinite, demand for network capacity seems to increase faster than corporate networks can deliver it. Wire speed may be cheap, but running a fat and wide pipe to every user's desk is typically beyond the financial reach of most IT organizations. Network congestion and server pile-ups haven't slaked our thirst for networked data access (possibly why we've devoted the last quarter's worth of columns to NFS-related topics).. more..