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Monitoring: a pivotal role in the Cloud


Wikimedia benefits from improved uptime and transparency, while MTI powers profitable remote management and Cloud services – thanks to integrated IT monitoring from Nimsoft.


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ikimedia is a non-profit foundation with the mission


to bring knowledge to people all over the world. Wikimedia operates Wikipedia, the most popular wiki online today, and its sister projects. These projects are accessed by a global audience of more than 470 million people, in 282 languages. The company has grown from a base of volunteers to 90 employees and an active community of more than 90,000 volunteer editors, developers and infrastructure support staff. The organization’s loyal community makes regular, free contributions of content to Wikimedia projects.


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Challenge With almost half a billion unique visitors, providing continuous, reliable service is extremely important to earning the trust of Wikimedia’s community of users and contributors. “We want to reach as many users as possible, all over the globe,” said CT Woo, Director of Technical Operations at Wikimedia. “Serving a global audience is challenging - we have a very complex infrastructure with many moving parts that must be up and running at all times.”


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