Deutsche Telekom is pushing ahead into cloud services and highlighting the value of partnerships with other cloud solution providers.
The Deutsche Telekom Business Marketplace, which was launched in the summer of 2012, has now registered over 10,000 users have registered. As this year’s CeBIT starts, over 40 applications from more than 20 partners are available, including applications to facilitate collaboration, manage projects and customers, and save data securely online. This is in addition to Telekom offers that are custom-tailored to the needs of SMEs – including videoconferencing applications from the cloud such as iMeet and TelePresence, dynamic IT resources from the private cloud such as managed IT services, a mobile device management solution to help manage mobile devices and their applications, and DeutschlandLAN, the cloud-based, TÜV-certified, end-to-end package for fixed-network, mobile and PC communications.
“Products and services from the cloud for large companies, SMEs and consumers are a major part of Telekom’s future strategy,” says Dirk Backofen, who is responsible for cloud business at Deutsche Telekom. “We use the cloud to connect people, both in their personal lives and at work. We don’t only supply the applications, but also give customers all cloud-related services from a single source: bandwidth, storage and computing capacity, applications, partner expertise, independence of a specific operating system, and high security. No other market player can make such an offer.”
Telekom’s subsidiary T-Systems plans to achieve revenues of roughly one billion euros, or one seventh of its total revenue, with cloud business in 2015. Multi-year cloud orders worth two billion euros were received alone in 2012.
On the cybersecurity front, Deutsche Telekom is now offering a dashboard for tracking the rising number of attacks. The website has a digital map of the world which shows the origin of cyber attacks recorded around the clock by more than 90 honeypot sensors around the world.
The portal was developed in association with BITKOM and Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
