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aiScaler Ltd
Company type	Limited company
Industry	Application Delivery Cotrol
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Dublin, Ireland
Key people	Jonathon Erington, Mericot Jennings
Products	Proxy Server, HTTP accelerator, Web cache, DDoS mitigation
Website	www.aiscaler.com

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aiScaler Ltd. is a multinational software company founded in 2008. It develops application delivery controllers designed to allow dynamic web pages to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content. A number of websites in the Alexa top 1000 use aiScaler to manage their traffic.^[1]^[2]

aiScaler software can be deployed either on public cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services^[3] or private virtual environments. aiScaler software is considered an edge device as it proxies traffic, augmenting or replacing content delivery networks endpoints.^[4]

History

aiScaler started as a project in 1994 and was initially called "Jxel", short for Java Accelerator. The technology was Java-based and intended to be run on a Java Virtual Machine sharing the same computer system as the HTTP server. It was re-written in 2009 using the C computer language, occupying its own dedicated server. It was also written to run only on Linux to take advantage of changes in the input/output model based on epoll. In July 2008, aiScaler Ltd acquired all assets and technology of WBS for $3.8 million.^{[clarification needed]}^[5]

Until 2013, aiScaler was known as "aiCache", producing a product called aiScaler. The company took over the name of its main product, phasing out the brand name aiCache.^[6]

Products

All aiScaler products can be categorized as Application Delivery Controllers

aiScaler is an HTTP accelerator that provides application delivery control, in addition to scaling and acceleration of content delivery ^[7]
aiProtect offers protection against DDoS attacks and SQL injections^[8]
aiMobile is a Mobile content management system
aiCDN is a cloud-based Application Delivery Network that allows scaling of dynamic web applications.
aiScaler and Dell offer a hardware Application Delivery Controller, which fits in a standard rack unit server rack.^[9]

aiScaler was the first HTTP accelerator based on epoll technology allowing it to employ a right-threaded (only the specified number of workers process requests, no matter how many clients are connected), non-blocking, multiplexed IO design.^[10]

In contrast to other HTTP accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache, which is primarily an origin server, aiScaler was designed as an HTTP accelerator.

References

External links

Official development web site
"aiCache Deployment CNBC", June 9, 2009 Highscalability.com article by Director of Platforms CNBC Rashid Karimov describing the implementation of the aicache software as an edge device.

[1] ttp://highscalability.com/blog/2009/4/16/serving-250m-quotesday-at-cnbccom-with-aicache.html

[2] ttp://www.foetron.com/portfolio/aicache-and-woot-com-chooses-aicache-web-accelerator-instances-running-on-the-amazon-ec2-cloud-to-manage-traffic-spikes/

[3] ttps://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B007OOIPFM/ref=mkt_ste_l2_WebApps_f3?nc1=h_l2_wa

[4] ttp://dyn.com/blog/how-to-save-money-on-your-cdn-with-dyn-aiscaler/

[5] ttp://www.crunchbase.com/company/aiscaler-com

[6] ttp://aiscaler.com/about

[7] ttp://aiscaler.com/performance-reports

[8] ttp://aiscaler.com/home/protect

[9] ttp://aiscaler.com/dell-hardware-application-delivery-controller

[10] "aiScaler Admin Guide", Jan. 14, 2011

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-'''aiScaler Ltd.''' is a [[multinational corporation|multinational]] [[software]] company founded in 2008. It develops [[application delivery controller]]s designed to allow [[Dynamic Web pages|dynamic web pages]] to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content.  A number of websites in the [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] top 1000, use aiScaler to manage their traffic<ref>http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/4/16/serving-250m-quotesday-at-cnbccom-with-aicache.html</ref><ref>http://www.foetron.com/portfolio/aicache-and-woot-com-chooses-aicache-web-accelerator-instances-running-on-the-amazon-ec2-cloud-to-manage-traffic-spikes/</ref>
+'''aiScaler Ltd.''' is a [[multinational corporation|multinational]] [[software]] company founded in 2008. It develops [[application delivery controller]]s designed to allow [[Dynamic Web pages|dynamic web pages]] to scale content by intelligently caching frequently requested content. A number of websites in the [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] top 1000 use aiScaler to manage their traffic.<ref>http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/4/16/serving-250m-quotesday-at-cnbccom-with-aicache.html</ref><ref>http://www.foetron.com/portfolio/aicache-and-woot-com-chooses-aicache-web-accelerator-instances-running-on-the-amazon-ec2-cloud-to-manage-traffic-spikes/</ref>
-aiScaler software can be deployed either on public [[cloud computing]] platforms such as Amazon Web Services<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B007OOIPFM/ref=mkt_ste_l2_WebApps_f3?nc1=h_l2_wa</ref> or private [[Virtualization|virtual]]  environments. aiScaler software is considered an [[edge device]] as it [[Proxy server|proxies]] traffic, augmenting or replacing  [[content delivery network]]s endpoints.<ref>http://dyn.com/blog/how-to-save-money-on-your-cdn-with-dyn-aiscaler/</ref>
+aiScaler software can be deployed either on public [[cloud computing]] platforms such as [[Amazon Web Services]]<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B007OOIPFM/ref=mkt_ste_l2_WebApps_f3?nc1=h_l2_wa</ref> or private [[Virtualization|virtual]] environments. aiScaler software is considered an [[edge device]] as it [[Proxy server|proxies]] traffic, augmenting or replacing [[content delivery network]]s endpoints.<ref>http://dyn.com/blog/how-to-save-money-on-your-cdn-with-dyn-aiscaler/</ref>
 ==History==
-aiScaler started as a project in 1994 and was initially called Jxel, short for Java Accelerator. The technology was Java-based and intended to be run on a Java Virtual Machine sharing the same computer system as the HTTP server.  It was re-written in 2009 using the C computer language and occupying its own dedicated server. It also was written to run only on Linux to take advantage of changes in the input/output model based on epoll. In July 2008, aiScaler Ltd acquired all assets and technology of WBS for $3.8 million<ref>http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aiscaler-com</ref>
+aiScaler started as a project in 1994 and was initially called "Jxel", short for Java Accelerator. The technology was [[Java_(programming_language|Java]]-based and intended to be run on a [[Java Virtual Machine]] sharing the same computer system as the HTTP server. It was re-written in 2009 using the C computer language, occupying its own dedicated server. It was also written to run only on Linux to take advantage of changes in the input/output model based on [[epoll]]. In July 2008, aiScaler Ltd acquired all assets and technology of WBS for $3.8 million.{{clarification needed}}<ref>http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aiscaler-com</ref>
-Until 2013, aiScaler was known as “aiCache”, producing a product called aiScaler. The company took over the name of its main product, phasing out the brand name aiCache<ref>http://aiscaler.com/about</ref>
+Until 2013, aiScaler was known as "aiCache", producing a product called aiScaler. The company took over the name of its main product, phasing out the brand name aiCache.<ref>http://aiscaler.com/about</ref>
 ==Products==