As recently reported, Deutsche Telekom is now bundling its cloud offerings for companies of all sizes in a single portal under the name of TelekomCLOUD together with the corporate customer T-Systems .
In an Executive Summary of the Cloud Vendor Benchmark 2015, Heiko Henkes, Director Advisor of the Experton Group, rates the strategic decision of Deutsche Telekom very positively: The Group supports its customers strategically and tactically in the transformation of business models, especially by the portfolio tailored to midsize requirements with an end-to-end approach. In addition, Telekom has a "powerful" building block with cloud solutions that are available at the push of a button and, if required, managed service expertise to securely deploy complex infrastructures.
Philosophy finds confirmation
After the European Court of Justice overturned the Safe Harbor Agreement on data exchange between the EU and the USA in October, the US authorities and thus also the US cloud providers are not only in a real crisis of confidence, but also have an additional tangible, legal problem. Any customer who wants to go to the cloud today or already has to incorporate this current legal uncertainty into his risk assessment.Customers of Telekom Deutschland can therefore benefit above all from the proximity in terms of data management and support, the security and performance , which are always in the foreground . Therefore, Deutsche Telekom also expects its new cloud platform to have a decisive advantage in terms of security: if the new cloud portal meets the strict German data protection standards, it hosts numerous of the applications in the highly secure ISO 27001: 2013 and ISO 9001: 2001 and TÜV certified T-Systems data center in Germany. In times of the tilted Safe Harbor agreement this is a serious factor, which also the US-American software company Microsoft recognized, which immediately hosts all cloud services for Germany in the telecom data center.Microsoft cloud services with T-Systems as a data trustee. read
According to Experton, Telekom Deutschland occupies a strong position in the German cloud market against this background. By keeping the data of Telekom customers on German soil, absolute legal certainty is guaranteed. Thus, according to the summary Henkes, Telekom Deutschland offers all the basic requirements for future-oriented and business-critical business models.
