Deutsche Telekom launched a new independent cloud offering as part of a push around European sovereignty. The operator said its T Cloud service would provide different services to customers at different levels of sovereignty.
The company pointed to the findings from the Draghi report from 2024, which found the EU is dependent on technologies from abroad for digital products, services, and infrastructure. “This poses financial operational and strategic risks for companies and governments: unpredictable cost explosions, interruptions to critical processes or supply chains, and threats to intellectual property and sensitive data,” DT stated.
Through T Cloud, the provider noted that, instead of closed systems, it would pursue a multi-cloud approach and integrate a wide variety of platforms into a seamless partner ecosystem. These include a public and private cloud offering and a cloud service that offers customers support based on workflows and differing types of data. It will also incorporate an AI cloud play in partnership with Nvidia for data centres, operations, sales, and security.
Ferri Abolhassan, CEO of T-Systems, said T Cloud is the answer to Europe’s call for greater digital self-determination. Head of T Cloud Lars Neumann added that the offering combines digital sovereignty with investment security and sustainable benefits – locally anchored, globally connectable, tailored to the needs of the customer.
Burra was created as a platform for consolidating IT services companies in Southeast Europe, with a commercial focus on Western Europe and the United States. Its first members, Devōt, Tacta and CoreLine, continue to run their existing businesses while integration is planned gradually, primarily through new projects. Sven Marušić says the aim is not to turn founders into corporate employees, but to build a larger organisation in which they remain shareholders and drivers of growth.
Telecom operators are no longer using AI only for network optimisation and routine operations. They are applying it to faster product development and customer conversations. Matija Ražem says AI enables prototypes in hours, quicker market testing, and automation of many standard support questions. The next step may be a world where personal digital agents interact with agents from telecoms, banks and other large organisations.
ReversingLabs is developing agent-based approaches to security operations, while warning that the expertise needed to manage such systems will become even more critical.
