INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

An information processing apparatus includes a network interface, a storage device, and a processor. The processor is configured to assign a plurality of zones in the storage device. Each of the zones is a contiguous physical address range of the storage device that is mapped to a contiguous logical address range. The processor is configured to generate zone management information for each of the plurality of zones, store content received from the origin server via the network interface, in one of writable zones and update a writable address of the zone management information for the one of the writable zones. The processor is configured to operate to transmit the received content, and control the storage device to delete data stored therein in units of a zone upon a predetermined cache clearing criteria being met.