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The English version of ARRv2 was Released To Web (RTW) in November 2009 and today, we are announcing that ARRv2 is being released in following languages:

As you know, ARRv2 RC was released a few weeks ago.  (To learn more about ARRv2, click here.  Download x64 or x86.)  With ARRv2 RC, ARR now has two cache tiers, kernel memory cache and disk cache.  I think people in general understand the benefits of caching (reduced latency, reduction in bandwidth consumption, etc) but recently, a customer who has deployed ARRv2 RC in production sent me the following data.  The customer is using ARR as a reverse proxy to load balance the requests to several content servers.

Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 RC for IIS7 has been released.

As you may know, Application Request Routing (ARR) has a host name affinity feature that is designed specifically for hosters to use to maximize the available resources across their environment.  More info on host name affinity and hosting can be found here and here.

Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 includes support for disk caching capabilities which effectively allows ARR to be used as a cache proxy.  ARRv2 also includes management of cache hierarchy so that it can be used to build a network of cache servers, as in Content Delivery Network (CDN) or Edge Caching Network (ECN). 

As you know, in Application Request Routing Version 2, the focus is around enabling ARR as a cache proxy in CDN/ECN environment.  We had our first beta release in March 09 and the currently available release for supporting this scenario is ARRv2 Beta 2 (Released in July 09 and more info can be found here.)

Ahead of HostingCon 2009 next week, I wanted to show how ARR can be used in hosting environment to offer elastic scalability.  This feature has been highlighted in other walkthroughs and blogs, but here is the video version.