Almost no company works with just one cloud today. Sensitive data requires sovereign infrastructure, established systems run in on-premises data centers, and international hyperscalers provide specialized services. Deutsche Telekom will use Codesphere to reflect this multicloud reality in the T Cloud ecosystem. The platform provides the basis for running workloads wherever they are best suited, depending on their requirements.
Codesphere will run on T Cloud and, as a shared technical layer, connect sovereign infrastructure with existing hyperscaler and on-premises environments. This allows applications to be developed and operated across different infrastructures without requiring a fundamental overhaul of the existing IT landscape.
“Not every workload needs the same cloud. With Codesphere, we connect sovereign T Cloud, international hyperscalers and existing IT environments on a single platform. This gives our customers the flexibility to run each application where sovereignty, scalability and technological requirements are best aligned, while allowing them to adapt when requirements change,” says Lars Neumann, Senior Vice President T Cloud at Deutsche Telekom.
The most suitable infrastructure depends on the requirements of each workload. If regulatory requirements increase, for example, a workload can be moved to a sovereign environment. “Companies will need sovereign infrastructure as well as applications from hyperscalers. Codesphere gives them the flexibility to choose and means they are not permanently tied to a single cloud environment. Workloads can run where they are best suited and move as requirements change,” says Thomas Weyand, COO of Codesphere.
Organizations with stringent regulatory requirements stand to benefit particularly from this infrastructure flexibility. They include public authorities, healthcare providers, critical infrastructure operators, banks, energy suppliers, research institutions and industrial companies. They need to protect sensitive data while using modern cloud technologies for compute-intensive applications, data analytics and AI. Codesphere enables them to combine these requirements flexibly.
Public authorities face this challenge in particular. Digital government services and AI applications require significant computing power while processing highly sensitive data. With Codesphere, these workloads can be operated securely on T Cloud and supplemented with additional cloud services where required.
Deutsche Telekom and Codesphere now intend to translate their partnership into concrete customer projects. The initial focus will be on workloads that combine stringent sovereignty requirements with significant computing and storage needs. Together, the partners will identify suitable applications and test them on T Cloud.
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