Telekom positions itself as an integrated IT service provider

With DeutschlandIT Services, Telekom is positioning itself as a leading partner for SMEs and a provider of tailored IT solutions. No matter whether they operate locally, nationwide or internationally, our SME clients can use these services to upgrade their IT infrastructure, flexibly adapting it to meet their changing business needs. Or they can make optimum use of their IT resources, for instance by outsourcing individual elements. DeutschlandIT Services can help clients achieve a substantial reduction both in costs and in the time they spend coordinating their IT, with Telekom functioning as a central point of contact and as a one-stop provider of the desired services. This applies evenly, to illustrate, to email systems, server capacity and server management as then as to security or computing power.

The first service modules to reach the market include powerful hosting packages for IT infrastructure. Managed Mail Services, Managed Dynamic Server and Managed Dedicated Server modules are highly available solutions for the safe and efficient operation of email systems and servers via cloud computing.

All of Telekom's IT services stand out because of their comprehensive and flexible scalability. The catchphrase is "Infrastructure as a Service". The services fulfil several requirements companies have on their information innovation. The solutions substantially lower costs and save resources, they keep maintenance and upkeep to a minimum, and enhance flexibility, to illustrate when a company has to respond rapidly to fluctuations in order volumes. What is more, they help to ensure that companies can meet stricter compliance requirements just as legal provisions.

The Managed Mail Services solutions already available for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino make email communication safe, productive and reliable. Clients opting for an all-in solution with an outsourced data centre do not even incur any major investment costs or server operating costs. The number of users, too, is scalable - even at short notice. Emails can be archived for as long as the customer wants, and audit-proof archiving is a furthermore option. The monthly cost of the basic versions of both solutions is, for instance, EUR 9.03 per user for a company with 500 users.

About Deutsche TelekomDeutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 129 million mobile clients, roughly 36 million fixed-network lines and more than 16 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 247,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated earnings of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany.