Strategic Partnership for Cloud Computing: T-Systems to Offer Customers VMware vCloud Datacenter Services

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --



• Cost reduction and business agility through standardized cloud services.
• Customers can quickly increase their IT capacities in T-Systems' high-security data centers.
• Data privacy and compliance in line with German legislation.

T-Systems join forces with VMware to provide customers with easier, quicker and more manageable access to cloud computing. The companies announced their strategic partnership today at the VMware vForum 2012 in Frankfurt.

On average enterprises have virtualized more than 50 percent of their servers, leading to sizable gains in efficiency and manageability over the past few years. That enterprises are increasingly choosing VMware's virtualization and cloud solutions to realize these benefits speaks to the trust that customers place in VMware cloud infrastructure. Yet the promise of cloud to access IT capacity on-demand without a fixed investment is better fulfilled when a service provider offers the same quality of IT infrastructure in the cloud that enterprises are used to on-premise. The VMware vCloud Datacenter Service to be provided by T-Systems delivers on the hybrid cloud promise, to provide IT infrastructure out of the cloud that has undergone a demanding certification process by VMware. This gives enterprises the confidence to move IT capacity into the cloud easily and without any surprises in terms of portability, compatibility, security, manageability and control.  Thus when a customer's data center has reached its capacity limit, or resources for new projects are needed within minutes, T-Systems provides a familiar solution in a hybrid cloud model. T-Systems plans to deliver its VMware vCloud Datacenter Service this fall. It will be based on VMware's award-winning cloud infrastructure suite, including VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director.

Into the cloud at the push of a button

"Put simply, enterprises will be able to move the contents of their servers to the T-Systems cloud at the push of a button," said Jürgen Urbanski, Cloud expert at T-Systems and a member of Deutsche Telekom's Cloud Leadership Team. "Internally, we have been using proven VMware technologies for many years. Therefore, we are delighted to announce that we plan to deliver VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. This will help ensure that our joint customers can move seamlessly between on-premise and cloud deployments, with the high standards of security and compliance expected of a German provider," he added.

Deutsche Telekom aims to strengthen its growth with cloud services over the next few years. Closer partnerships with top-tier technology providers like VMware play a crucial part in achieving this aspiration. "Our goals are to make innovations from our community of strategic partners available to customers more quickly, to empower customers through self-service, and to offer customers choice and flexibility by embracing industry-leading standards and cloud APIs," says Urbanski.  "Our new VMware vCloud Datacenter Service will be a great example of that."

"We have a long-standing strategic partnership with T-Systems. Starting with the virtualization of the server and client infrastructure, through business-critical applications to setting up a highly automated data center environment, we are delighted that T-Systems is now also expanding the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services network," said Thomas Kühlewein, Vice President for VMware CEMEA. "T-Systems understands how a whole mix of factors are changing the nature of IT and running a business: more mobile employees, a host of new devices, applications and data, as well as an increased need for greater flexibility - all while continuing to control costs. T-Systems cloud services help IT organizations master these new challenges, and delivering VMware vCloud Datacenter Services can enable them to successfully become key innovation drivers for their organizations," Kühlewein continued.

About Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with more than 129 million mobile customers, almost 34 million fixed-network lines and 17-million broadband lines (as of March 31, 2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 235,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR-58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year - over half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011).

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 customer arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 48,200 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 EUR-9.2 billion in the 2011 financial year.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at http://www.vmware.com. Its German branch office is located in Unterschleissheim, Munich.

VMware, VMware vCloud and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective organizations. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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