Microsoft and T-Systems are intensifying their strategic cooperation and combining their cloud-services skills. The solutions come in response to corporate customer's growing demand for standardized cloud-based solutions. Companies value such services because they can draw on them as necessary and pay for them on the basis of actual use. At the same time, the attractiveness of such services depends centrally on their security. Significantly, German data privacy and data security provisions provide high security standards. Microsoft has brought its Microsoft Office, Exchange, Lync and SharePoint products into the strategic partnership. With the new services packages, companies can enhance the effectiveness with which their employees communicate and cooperate via their networks. T-Systems provides the software via its German high-security data centers and integrates it, as a "cloud", within the (Information and Communication Technology - ICT) landscape. Microsoft is also providing much of the technical basis for the new services. The architecture is based on Microsoft Dynamic Data Center with Hyper-V for virtualization and Microsoft System Center for systems administration. The new jointly provided services are aimed at a range of different industries, including banks and insurance companies, automakers and their suppliers and energy companies. As of the CeBIT 2011 fair, the services will be marketed under the name "Dynamic Services for Collaboration".
About Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 129 million mobile customers, around 37 million fixed-network lines and approximately 16 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2010). 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 250,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR 64.6 billion in the 2009 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2009). 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. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's some 45,300 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 8.8 billion in the 2009 financial year.