The university is one of the largest schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, which is the largest provider of higher education in Minnesota. A regional comprehensive university, St. Cloud State has more than 15,400 students and nearly 110,000 alumni.
The most basic difference between the two technologies is that Flash Cache is a PCI-e card (or cards) that sits in the NetApp controller, whereas Flash Pool are SSD drives that sits in NetApp shelves. This gives way to some important points.
The browser cache provides local storage of files previously accessed and downloaded from a web server. Faster Loading. Because files are stored locally, previously viewed pages load faster, as long as they are stored in cache. Reduces Network Congestion. Every time you access a web site, you are downloading files.