1. A system suitable for transferring data images, comprising: an image cache suitable for being accessed locally, the image cache suitable for storing at least one data image; and an image storage connected to the image cache over a network, the image storage including a plurality of data images, wherein a query is received by the image cache for a data image not included in the image cache, a data image corresponding to the queried data image is transferred from the image storage to the image cache over the network.