Store this angel in big sizeAmsterdam, June 22, 2009 – The Wikimedia Foundation, the abettor and buyer of Wikipedia – one of the world’s 5 better websites – has active a arrangement with EvoSwitch, the carrier-neutral abstracts centermost in Amsterdam that operates absolutely CO2-neutral. As allotment of the contract, Evoswitch is accouterment over 300,000 euros of in-kind abutment in the anatomy of bandwidth and hosting services. Wikimedia will use the Amsterdam website as its HUB for Europe.
The Wikimedia Foundation manages eight distinct, open, wiki based publishing projects, including the chargeless online album Wikipedia. Wikipedia is consistently ranked one of the top 5 a lot of visited websites in the apple by comScore MediaMetrix, confined billions of page angle every month. All Wikimedia’s publishing projects are hosted on a axial abstracts basement based in Florida, USA. The commutual allotment of the basement will now be based in Amsterdam at the EvoSwitch abstracts center.
Hosting Europe
“We're actual admiring with EvoSwitch's able and able-bodied anchored abstracts centermost environment, which includes a awful cost-efficient basement in a area that is of abundant cardinal accent to us,” explains Brion Vibber, Chief Technology Officer for the Foundation. “We will be application the Amsterdam website for caching in particular, aiming to abate the acknowledgment time of our activity websites in Europe. EvoSwitch will aswell be a acceptable area for abetment up agreeable that is stored at our Florida abstracts center. Finally, we will be relocating European publishing projects to EvoSwitch, such as Toolserver.org – a activity of the German Wikimedia chapter.”
Vibber considers the environmentally affable attributes of EvoSwitch addition advantage. “As operators of one of the a lot of heavily accessed web acreage on the web, we are acquainted of the appulse that the Internet and its activity burning accept on the environment,” explains Vibber. “EvoSwitch’s energy-saving measures, accumulated with their use of blooming activity and CO2 advantage are actual adorable to us.”
Amsterdam Hosting
The Wikimedia Foundation's hosting basement in Florida encompasses over 300 servers. The Foundation will install about 50 servers at the EvoSwitch website in Amsterdam.
According to Vibber, “The Amsterdam servers will both retrieve the agreeable from the servers in Florida, as able-bodied as abundance it. Web pages can again be displayed to Internet users anon from Amsterdam, which will advance the acceleration and accessibility of the web pages in Europe significantly. I apprehend that we will added access our accommodation at EvoSwitch in the abreast approaching due to the appropriate accumulator accommodation and new European publishing projects.”
Benefactors Wikimedia
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit alignment with abstracted objectives that are in band with EvoSwitch’s accumulated objectives. “We are able supporters of Wikimedia and their Wikipedia publishing activity in particular,” confirms Eric Boonstra, EvoSwitch’s Commercial Director. “The Foundation's operations accompany with the objectives of our own organization, to accumulate the Internet 'open' and activate abandon of announcement and the manual of ability via the Internet. This affiliation is all the added appropriate to us because of Wikimedia’s acceptance in EvoSwitch.”
The Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit alignment which operates Wikipedia, the chargeless encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the added projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation accept added than 300 actor different visitors per month, authoritative them the 4th a lot of accepted web acreage world-wide. Available in added than 265 languages, Wikipedia contains added than 12 actor online autograph contributed by a all-around advance association of added than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) alms that is adjourned primarily through donations and grants.
www.wikimediafoundation.org
blog.wikimedia.org
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EvoSwitch
EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) is a carrier-neutral, blooming abstracts Center (CO2-neutral). The abstracts centermost is actual activity able and has a PUE of 1.6 with a near-term ambition of 1.2. EvoSwitch is amid in the Amsterdam region, has acceptable access and a ample attic across of added than 9,000 m2. EvoSwitch is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. To barter this agency that their IT basement aural EvoSwitch is adequate according to the accomplished standards. The abstracts centermost has a absolute accommodation of 20 Megawatt. This ability accommodation enables EvoSwitch to agreement barter that there is consistently abundant activity available. EvoSwitch operates absolutely climate-neutral. In cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group the abstracts centermost invests in common projects to restore the CO2 antithesis in the atmosphere (www.climateneutralgroup.com). Companies that install their accessories in the EvoSwitch abstracts centermost can use the logos of the The Green Fan Partner Programme (www.thegreenfan.com) on their web sites to appearance that they use a climate-neutral abstracts center.
Media contact:
Wikimedia Foundation
Jay Walsh
+1 415 860 8166
jwalsh@wikimedia.org
EvoSwitch
Koen Stegeman
+31 6 304 91407
press.nl@evoswitch.com
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