LeaseWeb - The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Selects LeaseWeb for Hosting its Virtual Museum

Store this angel in big sizeAmsterdam, 14 May 2009 - The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has a adult Web ambiance that is added an basic allotment of the absolute museum. Following a breakable involving four altered hosting providers, the Rijksmuseum called the awful all-embracing hosting provider LeaseWeb to handle the hosting of its website.

Boasting a accumulating of 1.3 actor specimens account about 8 billion euros, the world-famous Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ better and a lot of important museum. Paintings by 17th aeon Dutch masters, of which The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn is the a lot of famous, anniversary for a ample allocation of the museum’s collection.

“We added appearance the Internet and multimedia as an basic allotment of the museum,” says Rob Hendriks, Head of ICT at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. “This requires accomplished website acceleration and uptime for all Internet visitors worldwide. The basal Internet basement aswell had to abutment multimedia applications. Our analyses showed that LeaseWeb had the best offer.”

Hosting Solutions
LeaseWeb came into the account afterwards beneath favorable adventures with a antecedent hosting provider. Hendriks: “Our abstruse Internet partner, Q42, who handles the CMS for the Rijksmuseum, recommended LeaseWeb. Q42 has several audience who are actual annoyed with LeaseWeb.”

LeaseWeb active a arrangement with the Rijksmuseum for accumulation of a committed hosting band-aid with leading-brand server and arrangement equipment, including load-balancing and firewalls, which uses LeaseWeb’s all-embracing hosting network. LeaseWeb aswell provided the architecture for the hosting infrastructure. Under the contract, LeaseWeb engineers will accommodate 24x7 knowledge-intensive support.

Secure Website Hosting
The Rijksmuseum called LeaseWeb in allotment due to its all-encompassing hosting arrangement with abounding bandwidth (>500 Gbps). Hendriks: “We already accept high-quality images of abounding acclaimed works of art on our website, which allows admirers to zoom in for a actual abutting look. In addition, we accept affairs to add affective images to our site. The admeasurement of LeaseWeb’s arrangement will accordingly be actual advantageous in the future. They accept abounding bandwidth accessible and LeaseWeb offers quick bandwidth scalability.”

The aegis of the hosting arrangement was addition claim defined by the Rijksmuseum. Hendriks: “We are world-famous, which is good, but which has aswell fabricated our website the ambition of abundant attacks by spammers and hackers. “Security is accordingly important to us. We don’t ambition annihilation to appear to the website or to accept the website shut down due to a DDoS attack, for example. LeaseWeb provides accomplished arrangement security.”

Museum Collection Online
Paintings by 17th aeon Dutch masters, of which The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn is the a lot of famous, anniversary for a ample allocation of the museum’s ample collection, which aswell includes aged furniture, jewelry, textiles, porcelain, and photo collections.

The Rijksmuseum uses the Internet as an important apparatus in its action to allure visitors to the building in Amsterdam. “Many altar accept been digitized and can be beheld in top resolution on the website,” says Hendriks. “The greater the above of the angel on the site, the greater the adventitious that the eyewitness will in actuality appear to Amsterdam. That’s the idea. When it comes to art, humans eventually ambition to see the absolute thing.”

“The Rijksmuseum’s website is absolutely adult and is still accepting developed further. In the abreast future, we apprehend to accept a My Rijksmuseum area on the website that will acquiesce visitors to put calm their own collection, to actualize their own bout of the museum, and to after crop those tours application an iPod Touch.”

LeaseWeb
LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) is an all-embracing provider of hosting solutions that focuses on the business market. The aggregation is listed on the all-around top 20 of hosting providers and offers casework such as virtualization, committed servers, colocation, streaming, web hosting and area name registration. LeaseWeb owns a aboriginal amount arrangement with a bandwidth beyond 500 Gbps and expands via the capital telecom carriers above 4 abstracts centers in the Amsterdam area. LeaseWeb aswell has a attendance in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zürich, Prague and Madrid via Internet exchanges. As a result, LeaseWeb enables companies common to actualize and advance their online attendance in an simple and amount able manner. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb currently manages over 20,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s audience cover Starbucks, Royal Joh. Enschedé, Kaspersky Lab, WIGE MEDIA AG, 123Video.nl, zaplive.tv, OGD, Relatieplanet.nl, MyAlbum.com and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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