Varnish Software Joining NetApp Alliance Partner Program

Varnish Software AB, in content delivery, has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program to deliver value to customers as they scale their data.

It will extend the capabilities of NetApp StorageGRID, a software-defined, object storage solution, by using edge computing to increase download speeds by 5,000% – delivering local performance for specific workloads and instant ROI to organizations.

Varnish will deliver powerful caching technology to StorageGRID by combining flexibility and enterprise robustness. The technology will be used to federate S3 queries across a multi-site StorageGRID architecture. In testing, an average download speed increased by 50x, ensuring increased efficiencies for organizations managing massive amounts of data in any environment, across the globe. This increase in local performance will benefit the rendering required by M&E customers.

“As an Alliance Partner, the positive results we have already seen from integrating our solution with StorageGRID are quite promising,” said Lars Larsson, CEO, Varnish. “By combining our technical expertise to bring increased speed to customers, they, in turn, will be able to accelerate productivity across globally-dispersed teams and bolster bottom-line results.“

Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) allows Varnish to add edge logic to StorageGRID in order to expand its functionality for organizations without modifying the user experience for existing customers. Varnish will self-discover each StorageGRID site along with its contents, unify the content index, and then route client traffic back to any site based on the S3 bucket being used. This edge-logic layer will be used for Varnish’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) which allows customers to inspect their HTTP traffic and detect malicious requests at the edge before they reach the web application. Edge-logic will also be used for service integration, traffic auditing, download error correction, and enhanced content security.

“Customers have been able to deliver the performance of StorageGRID to the most remote edge sites through this collaboration with Varnish Software,” said Duncan Moore, senior director of product management, NetApp. “We’re excited to see how customers utilize the solution to bring extreme performance to their next-gen object workloads wherever it’s required to gain a competitive advantage.“

Founded in 2010, Varnish has offices in Oslo, Norway, Stockholm, Sweden, London, UK, New York, Los Angeles, CA, and Paris, France.