Varnish Software Announces New Storage Engine 4

Varnish Software, a caching, streaming and content delivery software solutions company, in a press release today unveiled Massive Storage Engine (MSE) 4, “its newest and most advanced solution for storing and managing cached objects and their metadata, and the latest addition to Varnish Enterprise 6.”

MSE 4 further improves availability, reduces latency and ensures customers can “always deliver the optimal digital experiences, under high loads or even when certain drives fail,” the statement said. “It’s ideal for video distribution and large-cache use cases, as it adds persistence and resilience to content delivery internally, externally, and at the Edge.”

These new features and capabilities complement recent enhancements to Varnish’s growing portfolio of Content Delivery Software solutions.

“Content delivery use cases are rapidly evolving, and we are seeing that live streaming and VOD are the highest growth segments,” said Adrian Herrera, CMO, Varnish Software. “The challenge for content providers, telcos and even traditional CDNs is how to support this growth and deliver the best digital experience in an economical way. A large part of this is having the ability to store, access and deliver content as efficiently and reliably as possible, even in the face of hardware failures and traffic spikes, which is what MSE 4 enables.”

Varnish Software’s MSE 3 already offered high-performance caching and persistence for 100TB+ data sets, according to the company.

“MSE 4 builds on this foundation, making storage more efficient and reducing wear and tear on drives,” the company continued. “The latest enhancements significantly improve speeds when managing metadata, often cutting the input/output operations per second by half. Additionally, new updates to dynamic configuration processes, content integrity checks and disk error handling can prevent and mitigate the impacts of downtime for cached content, leading to greater resilience and less end-user disruption.”

MSE 4 integrates with Varnish Enterprise 6, Varnish Software’s feature-rich web cache and HTTP accelerator, and further expands on its capabilities and benefits, including the newly upgraded Varnish Controller 5.1.

Varnish Controller 5.1 provides advanced tools for robust traffic routing and load balancing to ensure content is always delivered from the optimal location, said the company itself. The recent updates include a streamlined UI, which provides value from day one; and a suite of new tools to customize, modify and manage custom routing to support the needs of virtually any configuration.

To learn more about Varnish Software’s latest content delivery solutions, and how to deliver responsive and resilient digital experiences from origin to edge, please schedule a meeting with Varnish Software at their booth – West Hall #W3501 – during NAB 2023 here.