T-Systems, leader among European cloud services providers

According to IDC, the German-based ICT service provider is in the lead particularly in private cloud services for enterprises, and in bringing cloud services into large outsourcing projects. T-Systems provides a large number of solutions that enable companies to outsource business applications to the cloud and use them on demand.

IDC as well stated that T-Systems has strong experience and integration expertise for private cloud services in Europe, based on having offered cloud computing services as its Dynamic Services offering since 2004.

More than 500 clients already use these services and some of them have been doing so for as long as seven years. IDC notes that through more than 160 "plugs", T-Systems can migrate and operate a wide range of applications as a cloud computing service. That includes operations that are based on strict German security regulations and that fulfil comprehensive compliance requirements.

The European market for private clouds

IDC expects the European market for private clouds and infrastructure as a service in secure environments to experience rapid growth in the straightway few years. According to IDC, during some service providers held back with offering cloud services in order to protect the outsourcing projects they were involved in then, T-Systems used cloud computing as a growth engine.

In its analysis, IDC as well emphasised that the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary launched interesting initiatives with cloud solutions for intelligent networks. These include the connected car, online healthcare solutions and smart power grids.

IDC considers T-Systems' competence when it comes to providing secure IT and network services from one source to be an additional advantage. The company's comprehensive ICT management services comprise a significant unparalleled selling proposition on the market.

T-Systems in South Africa recently announced its plans to enter the cloud computing market with its dynamic service solutions. With its dynamic IT services, T-Systems will meet the business demands of their clients for scalability, agility and usage-based computing.

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 128 million mobile clients, 36 million fixed-network lines and in broad outline 17 million broadband lines. The group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business clients and corporate clients. Deutsche Telekom is present in over 50 countries and has around 244 000 employees worldwide. The group generated revenue of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany.

Global infrastructure of data centres

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centres and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication research systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's 47 600 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to clients' core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 9.1 billion in the 2010 financial year.