diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Azure/Services/Caching/Output/AzureOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Azure/Services/Caching/Output/AzureOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
index 542d4b769..1f768bce0 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Azure/Services/Caching/Output/AzureOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Azure/Services/Caching/Output/AzureOutputCacheStorageProvider.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
 using Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching;
 using Orchard.Azure.Services.Environment.Configuration;
 using Orchard.Caching;
@@ -122,12 +123,27 @@ namespace Orchard.Azure.Services.Caching.Output {
                 return function.Invoke();
             }
             catch (DataCacheException) {
-                DataCacheFactory cacheFactory;
-                Logger.Debug("Retrying cache operation");
-                if (_dataCacheFactories.TryRemove(CacheConfiguration, out cacheFactory)) {
-                    cacheFactory.Dispose();
+                // applying http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cie/archive/2014/04/29/cache-retry-fails-what-next.aspx
+                try {
+                    DataCacheFactory cacheFactory;
+                    Logger.Debug("Retrying cache operation");
+                    if (_dataCacheFactories.TryRemove(CacheConfiguration, out cacheFactory)) {
+                        lock (_dataCacheFactories) {
+                            cacheFactory.Dispose();
+                            // Clear DataCacheFactory._connectionPool
+                            var coreAssembly = typeof(DataCacheItem).Assembly;
+                            var simpleSendReceiveModulePoolType = coreAssembly.
+                                GetType("Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.SimpleSendReceiveModulePool", throwOnError: true);
+                            var connectionPoolField = typeof(DataCacheFactory).GetField("_connectionPool", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
+                            connectionPoolField.SetValue(null, Activator.CreateInstance(simpleSendReceiveModulePoolType));
+                        }
+                    }
+                    return Retry(function, times--);
+                }
+                catch (Exception e) {
+                    Logger.Error(e, "An unexpected error occured while releasing a DataCacheFactory.");
+                    return default(T);
                 }
-                return Retry(function, times--);
             }
         }