Deutsche Telekom Group and Microsoft announced an expansion of their partnership that will help customers of all sizes accelerate their cloud transformation initiatives.
By combining Microsoft’s cloud and AI capabilities with Telekom’s Cloud Migration Framework and telecommunications services, the companies will enable customers to increase their productivity, build more agile and resilient operations, and deliver new cloud offerings faster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jean-Philippe Courtois, EVP 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.
