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NCachePoint Features

SharePoint 2010 support

NCachePoint 2.0 can now be installed on SharePoint 2010. JS/CSS minification feature is incompatible with SP 2010 hence it is not available in SP 2010 edition.

Added support for new WebParts of 2010

New XsltListViewWebPart is supported for List Caching feature.

Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)

NCachePoint 2.0 for SP 2010 now has full support for RBS and you can use existing storage providers with both EBS and RBS.

Image Combining (Dynamic CSS Sprites)

SharePoint 2007 includes the image combining feature that helps improve your application performance. NCachePoint 2.0 is able to dynamically generate CSS sprites to further reduce HTTP round trips between the client and web browser, giving you even better performance.

EBS Size filter

With NCachePoint 2.0, you are now able to set a minimum BLOB size for externalization.

File Shredding

File System adapter now supports file shredding.

Schedule job on Specific Server

EBS jobs can be scheduled on specific servers in the SharePoint farm.

NCachePoint Monitoring Tool

NCachePoint Monitoring Tool allows you to monitor the performance counters published by NCache and NCachePoint for the entire farm. It also allows you to view SharePoint logs of all the WFEs of the farm on a single farm node.

It greatly simplifies monitoring of your Cache, BLOBs, List and Jobs activity.

Additional Tools
  • BLOBInfo:
    This tool allows you to find actual document name with a BLOB GUID you will provide.
  • BLOBStressTool:
    With this tool you can test BLOB caching under heavy load.
  • NCache Monitoring Tool:
    It is a powerful graphical tool designed to simplify monitoring NCachePoint performance. It allows you monitor BLOB, List and ViewState Caching in real time and see how NCachePoint is improving SharePoint performance.
External Binary Store

EBS allows you to store all your content (documents/images/e.t.c) in an external storage. NCachePoint allows you to save your files on

  • File System, SAN Storage, NAS Storage
  • Amazon Cloud Storage Service
  • Azure Cloud Blob Storage Service

Our EBS has following features

  • Save each site collection data in separate folder or storage (FS, Azure, Amazon)
  • Gzip Compression
  • Encryption (TrippleDES 128bit, TrippleDES 192bit, AES 128bit, AES 256bit, DES 64bit, RC2 128bit)
  • Migrate / Revert content from/to EBS without any downtime and get Email notification on Failure or Success
  • Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management
  • Performance Counters for monitoring
Content Optimization

Content Optimization feature allows us to reduce the payload that gets transferred over the wire in form of ASP.NET ViewState, Javascript and CSS.

Following are the features of Content Optimization.

  • Cache ASP.NET ViewState on the server preventing it to travel back and forth between client and server allowing optimal use of bandwidth and faster download of the page.
  • Combine and minify multiple Javascript and CSS files into a single css file and cache it for reducing the number of requests the browser makes on per page visit.
    This reduces page rendering time and reduced server traffic.
    Minification removes redundant white space from JavaScript and CSS and obfuscated JS code to reduce the file size and allow faster download of the files
  • Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
  • Performance Counters for monitoring
Session Caching

Cache ASP.NET session and reduce the load on SQL Server (Which is used by default for sessions in SharePoint).

  • Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
List Caching

This feature allows you to save the output of different lists displayed in Calander View, Gantt View, Data Sheet View or HtmlView and prevent database query that retrieves the data of list from Sql Server.

  • We can select different type of expiration for different lists.
  • Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
  • Performance Counters for monitoring.