- Easy access and flexible management of subscribed applications from the private cloud
- Support for hybrid cloud scenarios
- Software development now possible with new Platform as a Service offer
T-Systems is extending its Enterprise Marketplace to build a Cloud Integration Center. The optimized IT architecture now enables corporate customers to manage their entire cloud landscape, provision and manage complex applications, migrate applications from the public to the private cloud with no fuss, and integrate their present solutions. T-Systems experts are presenting the extended service for the first time at this year's CeBIT fair.
"We now offer our key accounts a portal that allows them to manage all their cloud services with maximum efficiency; this cuts their IT costs and reduces the security risks that could arise, for example, when employees make use of shadow IT," explains Frank Strecker, who is responsible for cloud business at T-Systems. "According to a recent study, 32 percent of specialist departments in big firms already obtain applications to suit their specific needs from the cloud - without their IT officer's knowledge. This so-called shadow IT is difficult for companies to control, not merely from a security standpoint. CIOs now have the chance to counter this trend by provisioning applications in the Cloud Integration Center, thereby offering their specialist units better service as well as protecting the company overall from security risks when external software is smuggled into the company.
The Cloud Integration Center from T-Systems manages entire cloud infrastructures for its customers, and even fully integrates standard approval and order processes.
Alongside infrastructure from the cloud (IaaS), it is now also possible to provision software appliances, application services managed by T-Systems, and SaaS solutions via the Cloud Integration Center. Costs are calculated on the basis of actual usage. A new feature of the Cloud Integration Center is the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offering, which has been jointly built by T-Systems and Red Hat over the past four months. The PaaS solution is OpenShift by Red Hat, which supports software development based on various programming languages, frameworks and runtimes. The software allows users to rapidly set up flexible development environments and use integrated tools and interfaces to deliver applications without accruing investment costs for the infrastructure or software environment.
T-Systems is presenting the Cloud Integration Center with various different solutions at CeBIT in Hanover, on March 10 to 14, 2014, in hall 4.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with 140 million mobile customers, over 31 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2013). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has 230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 58.2 billion in the 2012 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2012).
About T-Systems
Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customers unit provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 52,700 employees at T Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around € 10 billion in the 2012 financial year.