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.
MemCache is a key-value store that can be used by websites to store and retrieve information with an emphasis on speed. By key-value store, we mean that the chunks of data (whether that be pieces of website content, image data or whole pages!), are stored with a unique name on the MemCached server and are retrieved by the same name when you want to fetch it back.