T-Systems and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to deliver 'sovereign cloud' services in Germany. These services target businesses, the public sector, healthcare organizations and other bodies that want to keep data stored in Germany and in compliance with local data protection legislation.
The new services will allow customers to host their sensitive workloads on a sovereign cloud, whilst continuing to leverage the scalability of public cloud services. Service management and operation of the sovereign cloud will be supervised by T-Systems, which already provides many related services to the public sector in Germany.
T-Systems started working with Google Cloud earlier this year as a certified managed services provider targeting multiple industries. Under the new offering, it will offer various levels of sovereignty control and handle the encryption and identity management for the cloud services. In addition, T-Systems will exercise a control function over relevant parts of the German Google Cloud infrastructure. Any physical or virtual access to facilities in Germany (such as routine maintenance and upgrades) will be under the supervision of T-Systems and Google Cloud.
The joint offering should be available by mid-2022. The companies also plan to set up a joint training and innovation centre in Munich.
T-Systems said they would look at extending the services also to Austria and Switzerland.
