Wikimedia to set up servers in green data center in Amsterdam

Wikimedia announced recently that it is to move into the European data-centre, run and owned by Dutch environmentally-sustainable infrastructure specialist EvoSwitch. Evoswitch's Amsterdam site will become the Wikimedia Foundation's main internet hub for Europe. Under the deal, EvoSwitch will donate more than 300,000 euros-worth of in-kind support, including bandwidth and hosting services. “We will be using the Amsterdam site for caching in particular, aiming to reduce the response time of our project websites in Europe," stated BrionVibber, chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. "EvoSwitch is also a good location for backing-up content that is stored at our Florida data centre. We will also be relocating European free knowledge projects to EvoSwitch, such as Toolserver.org; a project from the German Wikimedia chapter."
Further information:

• www.evoswitch.com