1 University of Helsinki Case Study: The University of Helsinki uses Varnish Enterprise to secure speed, performance and redundancy for its Drupal-based public website Background The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest university in Finland, providing education to more than 30,000 students across 12 faculties and 11 research institutes. Within the IT department, a smaller solutions architecture team manages the backend and performance of the university’s public web presence at helsinki.fi, which generates more than 40 million page loads per year, ensur- ing speed and availability for the many users of the university’s website. The challenge: When the university was developing a new website about seven years ago, their external development consult- ant suggested add

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