diff --git a/C4/Auth.pm b/C4/Auth.pm
index a855818aa1..ccb2c15000 100644
--- a/C4/Auth.pm
+++ b/C4/Auth.pm
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ use POSIX qw/strftime/;
 use List::MoreUtils qw/ any /;
 
 # use utf8;
-use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $debug $ldap $cas $caslogout $servers $memcached);
+use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $debug $ldap $cas $caslogout);
 
 BEGIN {
     sub psgi_env { any { /^psgi\./ } keys %ENV }
@@ -59,16 +59,7 @@ BEGIN {
     if ($cas) {
         import  C4::Auth_with_cas qw(check_api_auth_cas checkpw_cas login_cas logout_cas login_cas_url);
     }
-    $servers = C4::Context->config('memcached_servers');
-    if ($servers) {
-	require Cache::Memcached;
-        $memcached = Cache::Memcached->new({
-					       servers => [ $servers ],
-					       debug   => 0,
-					       compress_threshold => 10_000,
-					       namespace => C4::Context->config('memcached_namespace') || 'koha',
-					   });
-    }
+
 }
 
 =head1 NAME
@@ -1424,8 +1415,8 @@ sub get_session {
     elsif ($storage_method eq 'Pg') {
         $session = new CGI::Session("driver:PostgreSQL;serializer:yaml;id:md5", $sessionID, {Handle=>$dbh});
     }
-    elsif ($storage_method eq 'memcached' && $servers){
-	$session = new CGI::Session("driver:memcached;serializer:yaml;id:md5", $sessionID, { Memcached => $memcached } );
+    elsif ($storage_method eq 'memcached' && C4::Context->ismemcached){
+	$session = new CGI::Session("driver:memcached;serializer:yaml;id:md5", $sessionID, { Memcached => C4::Context->memcached } );
     }
     else {
         # catch all defaults to tmp should work on all systems
diff --git a/C4/Biblio.pm b/C4/Biblio.pm
index eafb67bdf9..b3a95b898c 100644
--- a/C4/Biblio.pm
+++ b/C4/Biblio.pm
@@ -132,17 +132,12 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 eval {
-    my $servers = C4::Context->config('memcached_servers');
-    if ($servers) {
+    if (C4::Context->ismemcached) {
         require Memoize::Memcached;
         import Memoize::Memcached qw(memoize_memcached);
 
-        my $memcached = {
-            servers     => [$servers],
-            key_prefix  => C4::Context->config('memcached_namespace') || 'koha',
-            expire_time => 600
-        }; # cache for 10 mins, if you want to cache for different make a different memcached hash
-        memoize_memcached( 'GetMarcStructure', memcached => $memcached );
+        memoize_memcached( 'GetMarcStructure',
+                            memcached => C4::Context->memcached);
     }
 };
 
diff --git a/C4/Context.pm b/C4/Context.pm
index 770973fd1a..53246ec580 100644
--- a/C4/Context.pm
+++ b/C4/Context.pm
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ BEGIN {
 		      servers => [ $servers ],
 		      debug   => 0,
 		      compress_threshold => 10_000,
+              expire_time => 600,
 		      namespace => $ENV{'MEMCACHED_NAMESPACE'} || 'koha'
 		  });
         # Verify memcached available (set a variable and test the output)
@@ -253,6 +254,31 @@ sub read_config_file {		# Pass argument naming config file to read
     return $koha;			# Return value: ref-to-hash holding the configuration
 }
 
+=head2 ismemcached
+
+Returns the value of the $ismemcached variable (0/1)
+
+=cut
+
+sub ismemcached {
+    return $ismemcached;
+}
+
+=head2 memcached
+
+If $ismemcached is true, returns the $memcache variable.
+Returns undef otherwise
+
+=cut
+
+sub memcached {
+    if ($ismemcached) {
+      return $memcached;
+    } else {
+      return undef;
+    }
+}
+
 # db_scheme2dbi
 # Translates the full text name of a database into de appropiate dbi name
 # 
diff --git a/C4/Languages.pm b/C4/Languages.pm
index ac5ea551f8..6f269ace46 100644
--- a/C4/Languages.pm
+++ b/C4/Languages.pm
@@ -26,20 +26,13 @@ use C4::Context;
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $DEBUG);
 
 eval {
-    my $servers = C4::Context->config('memcached_servers');
-    if ($servers) {
+    if (C4::Context->ismemcached) {
         require Memoize::Memcached;
         import Memoize::Memcached qw(memoize_memcached);
 
-        my $memcached = {
-            servers     => [$servers],
-            key_prefix  => C4::Context->config('memcached_namespace') || 'koha',
-            expire_time => 600
-        };    # cache for 10 mins
-
-        memoize_memcached( 'getTranslatedLanguages', memcached => $memcached );
-        memoize_memcached( 'getFrameworkLanguages',  memcached => $memcached );
-        memoize_memcached( 'getAllLanguages',        memcached => $memcached );
+        memoize_memcached('getTranslatedLanguages', memcached => C4::Context->memcached);
+        memoize_memcached('getFrameworkLanguages' , memcached => C4::Context->memcached);
+        memoize_memcached('getAllLanguages',        memcached => C4::Context->memcached);
     }
 };
 
diff --git a/etc/koha-conf.xml b/etc/koha-conf.xml
index 686a15b701..f5e2c0ffd6 100644
--- a/etc/koha-conf.xml
+++ b/etc/koha-conf.xml
@@ -275,7 +275,5 @@ __PAZPAR2_TOGGLE_XML_POST__
  <pazpar2url>http://__PAZPAR2_HOST__:__PAZPAR2_PORT__/search.pz2</pazpar2url>
  <install_log>__MISC_DIR__/koha-install-log</install_log>
  <useldapserver>0</useldapserver><!-- see C4::Auth_with_ldap for extra configs you must add if you want to turn this on -->
- <memcached_servers>__MEMCACHED_SERVERS__</memcached_servers>
- <memcached_namespace>__MEMCACHED_NAMESPACE__</memcached_namespace>
 </config>
 </yazgfs>