NEW YORK, NY and OSLO, NORWAY — (Marketwired) — 06/01/15 — Varnish Software announced today that its Enterprise offering, Varnish Plus, now offers full SSL/TLS support on both the HTTP backend and client side. This means Varnish Plus allows customers to improve their website security without having to rely on third-party solutions. As a consequence, customers can simplify their web architectures and ultimately save time and money.
By enabling SSL/TLS in Varnish Plus, customers will enable encrypted and secure communication on both the front and backend as Varnish acts as both HTTP server and client. On the client side, the HTTP server intercepts web requests before they reach a web server. The SSL/TLS support on this side enables traffic encryption between the client and Varnish.
On the backend, the HTTP client fetches content missing in the cache from the web server. This enables content to be fetched over the encrypted SSL/TLS, which particularly benefits customers who run a fully encrypted data center or have web servers that reside in a different location to their Varnish Plus servers.
“We have seen considerable market demand for SSL/TLS from the most advanced Varnish users,” commented Per Buer, CTO and founder, Varnish Software. “Until now our customers had to rely on third-party products for SSL/TLS. With the new SSL/TLS support they can get access to a highly performant SSL/TLS server bundled with Varnish Plus.”
Varnish Software will present its SSL/TLS solution for the first time on June 2nd at the Varnish Summit in Silicon Valley, then at the June 4th Varnish Summit in New York City, both themed “Scaling the Heights.” For more information please visit
SSL/TLS support is currently only available for Varnish Plus subscribers. For more information please contact .
Varnish Software delivers the world–s most widely used HTTP accelerator based on open source. Originally developed in 2006, Varnish has since spread to more than 2.3 million websites worldwide. It is currently used by some of the world–s most influential websites such as The New York Times, gov.uk, Pinterest, The BBC, The White House, Transport for London, Vimeo and many more. Varnish Software–s business model is to provide an enhanced and supported version of Varnish with enterprise features developed for the 10% most advanced users.
Varnish Software has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Oslo and Paris. For more information, please visit:
For further information please contact:
Per Buer
Founder & CTO of Varnish Software
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cell: +47 958 39 117
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