German telecos are rolling out new cloud services this week to compete with those from the big U.S. providers. Their selling point is location -- though their “home grown” infrastructure is still dependent on technology from U.S. and Chinese suppliers.
Deutsche Telekom switched on its Open Telekom Cloud at the Cebit trade show in Hannover on Monday, promising to keep data in German data centers. The day before, Vodafone Germany took the wraps off a virtual private cloud service for small and midsize businesses that will begin operating from data centers near Frankfurt in June. Vodafone also revealed a new infrastructure-as-a-service platform for the enterprise that respects German data sovereignty requirements.
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