1. A method of operating a cache service to interface between a virtual machine cluster and job data associated with a job executed by the virtual machine cluster, the method comprising: in the cache service, identifying a request initiated by the virtual machine cluster to access at least a portion of the job data in accordance with a first distributed object access protocol; in the cache service, in response to the request, accessing at least the portion of the job data in accordance with a second distributed object access protocol; and in the cache service, presenting at least the portion of the job data to the virtual machine cluster in accordance with the first distributed object access protocol.