At the on-going CeBIT, Deutsche Telekom and Cisco announced a number of newly developed Intercloud-based services for small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers. Intercloud is an initiative by Cisco for a globally connected network of clouds. According to Deutsche Telekom and Cisco, as part of their efforts to extend the Intercloud cloud services to businesses in Germany, both companies have set up an infrastructure for a redundant Intercloud node in Deutsche Telekom's data centers in Magdeburg and Biere near Berlin.
Under the joint initiative, Deutsche Telekom said that it will deliver sovereign and highly secure services that meet Germany's strict data protection standards to business customers throughout the European region, starting with the delivery of OpenStack-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The IaaS will allow the transition of all virtualized workloads into the cloud at the highest scalability and with significantly improved cost efficiency, while helping to ensure data sovereignty, said both companies.
According to Deutsche Telekom and Cisco, the Intercloud service will be enhanced with standardized APIs, open standards, virtualization and application policy libraries to allow true workload mobility between private enterprise clouds, virtual private clouds of Deutsche Telekom, public cloud infrastructures of different providers and the Intercloud node. In addition, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco and their strategic Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners will be jointly developing Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). .
