BONN, Germany and REDMOND,
Wash., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Deutsche Telekom Group and Microsoft Corp. announced an
expansion of their partnership that will help customers of all
sizes accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives.
For many companies, the cloud represents an opportunity to
reduce IT costs, increase flexibility and accelerate innovation.
However, to fully take advantage of cloud computing, it requires a
high-performance network that can scale to meet increasing
technology demands. By combining Microsoft's cloud and AI
capabilities with Telekom's Cloud Migration Framework and
telecommunications services, the companies enable customers to
increase their productivity, build more agile and resilient
operations, and deliver new cloud offerings faster.
"We have agreed on the framework for joint strategic growth with
our long-term partner Microsoft. We are delighted," said
Adel Al-Saleh, member of the
Deutsche Telekom Board of Management and CEO of T-Systems. "This
partnership will enable us to enhance services for our customers.
We will also be supporting each other with digitalization and
network build-out."
"The case for digital transformation has never been more urgent.
We know that the next decade of economic performance for every
business, whether large or small, will depend on the digital
investments made today," said Jean-Philippe
Courtois, executive vice president and president, Microsoft
Global Sales, Marketing and Operations. "Through this
strategic partnership, which combines the power of Deutsche
Telekom's network and Microsoft's cloud, customers will have more
opportunities to become resilient, accelerate innovation and
ultimately drive success."
Trusted cloud infrastructure to accelerate business
innovation
The delivery of secure and powerful software applications
requires a modern IT infrastructure. To accelerate business
innovation, Telekom plans to migrate the majority of its internal
IT workloads to the public cloud by 2025, and Azure is a central
part of that strategy. Through a companywide training program,
thousands of Telekom employees will learn how to maximize the
benefits of Azure.
Moving mainframe workloads to the cloud is one of the targeted
areas of the partnership. Historically, mainframes were designed as
scale-up servers to run high-volume online transactions and batch
processing. Using cloud-based mainframes, businesses can deliver
new services based on evolving customer demands without
retrofitting legacy hardware. This means companies can drive scale,
business continuity and energy efficiency while reducing
operational and hardware costs.
Telekom will also offer its customers direct access to the
Microsoft cloud through Azure ExpressRoute. By bypassing the public
internet, customers will have increased agility through faster
connectivity to better address regional compliance and data
residency needs.
Enabling digital collaboration and streamlining business
operations
To help people and businesses be more connected and productive
from anywhere, Telekom will offer Microsoft 365, including
Microsoft Teams. As part of this, the companies have started a
project for German schools to reimagine traditional approaches to
education, enabling remote learning through cloud-based IT
infrastructure, modern devices and the cloud productivity and
collaboration applications within Microsoft 365.
To leverage the benefits of cloud computing for critical
business processes, such as enterprise resource planning and supply
chain management, Telekom supports its customers with moving their
SAP environments to Azure. SAP solutions on Azure offer
enterprise-grade security, and business continuity and reduce
hardware expenses, making it easier for startups and smaller
organizations to get started.
Accelerating cloud initiatives: assessment, migration,
service
Telekom's enterprise customer unit T-Systems has migrated and
securely managed large-scale applications and critical enterprise
workloads. With Azure as a preferred cloud platform for select
solution areas, T-Systems is providing these capabilities to
companies across all industries so they can harness the global
scale, security and latest advances without needing to manage
installation and maintenance. This Cloud Migration Framework
combines automated assessment, cloud migration and services
management to help accelerate customers' cloud initiatives.
Small and medium-sized businesses will benefit from these
offerings as they can focus on their core competencies and don't
need to provide the resources and knowledge usually required to
implement a comprehensive cloud strategy.
Telekom and Microsoft will work closely together to continue to
address compliance needs and European regulatory requirements.
About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom company
profile
About T-Systems: T-Systems company profile
About Microsoft
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transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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