Deutsche Telekom Ties Up With Huawei In Growing Amazon/Google Cloud Rivalry
June 15, 2015
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Ingrid Lunden.
Are we headed for yet more price wars in the world of cloud computing? Amazon and Google have made huge inroads into the market on the back of deep discounts and generous storage allowances, and as a measure of their competitive threat, today one of the bigger and older incumbents out of Europe announced a partnership that it hopes will help it fight back.
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile, today announced that it would tie up closer with China’s Huawei to sell enterprise cloud services, specifically, as it notes, “to pit itself more strongly against the Internet corporations Google and Amazon in future.” The news today also signals a shift in how DT approaches its place in the cloud services market…
To date, a lot of the work that T-Systems has done has been around so-called private cloud services using dedicated VPNs and closed off-net networks. The company notes that last year, “revenue from cloud solutions, in particular in the highly secure private cloud, increased by double-figure percentage points at T-Systems alone.”…
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