• Highly secure private cloud for the university's own operations
  • Network, storage, and server capacity in minutes
  • Central, easy management of all hardware and software

Even teaching and research can no longer survive without digitization. From now on, over 80 professors and some 4,200 students at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (FUAS) will therefore have access to flexible IT resources from the cloud for their studies and research projects. Over the last five months, T-Systems reviewed the university's entire IT world, put together customized solutions for its own operations, and migrated the IT system to a highly secure private cloud.

Germany's most northern university will now benefit from having flexible access to storage resources required at short notice, central, easy management of the IT landscape, and readily available server capacity. "Science lives from findings and data. The ability to make important data available in seconds, evaluate it selectively, and, above all, store it securely are absolute prerequisites for FUAS," said President Herbert Zickfeld. "For this we need state-of-the-art, professional data processing systems - and not only in three or four years' time. With the assistance of T-Systems we created the ideal IT environment for our research needs within a few months."

FUAS is a research-oriented university of applied sciences that has a wide range of programs on offer including applied computer science, media informatics, mechanical engineering, economics, biotechnology and process engineering, international technical communication, and marine engineering.

The linchpin of the IT migration to the private cloud was the virtualization of the university servers on campus. Now, the university has flexible access to server and storage capacity in minutes, whereas in the past it often took weeks to install additional servers in order to test new software, for instance. The new IT infrastructure is an integrated system comprising the server architecture, network, and storage environment. To set up the cloud environment, T-Systems used IT modules from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware.

The Telekom cloud - versatile, easy, secure
Since 2005, Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiary T-Systems have offered secure end-to-end cloud solutions for companies of all sizes - from consulting to implementation, billing and customer service through to maintenance. Telekom's growing partner ecosystem includes solutions from SAP, Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce, VMWare, Oracle, SugarCRM and Informatica, and others. In addition to the classic network and IT infrastructure options, Telekom offers three cloud portals for all needs: Using the two public app stores Business Marketplace and Business Marketplace for Enterprise, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and corporate customers have access to a number of certified business applications from the Telekom cloud which they can test online, order and immediately use. The Cloud Integration Center gives corporate customers the ability to manage their entire IT landscape from the highly secure private cloud: Both individual IT components and booked applications and services can be centrally managed and easily administered via the portal. On all cloud portals, customers only pay for what they actually use.

About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 142 million mobile customers, 31 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2013). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has approximately 229,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 60.1 billion in the 2013 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany.

About T-Systems
Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 50,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to the digitization strategies and core business of customers all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around 9.5 billion euros in the 2013 financial year.

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