OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2012. AutoScouts24 is the first customer to benefit from the strategic partnership between VMware and T-Systems. Europe's number one car marketplace is using the new offering from the Cloud Alliance, and thus is able to upgrade its own data center simply and rapidly with flexible capacities from the cloud.

T-Systems and VMware had announced in June that together they would provide their customers with flexible data center services as required, virtually at the touch of a button. The certified offerings from the cloud (VMware vCloud Datacenter Services) allow companies to now expand their internal IT resources with the cloud capacities of T-Systems. As the leading supplier of virtualization and cloud solutions in the world, VMware is contributing the necessary software - principally VMware vSphere and vCloud Director - and the control and security packages based on that software. As a cloud pioneer, the Telekom subsidiary is bringing its expertise in operating data centers and IT services and in providing dynamic ICT services into the partnership.

“We require flexible resources, because our markets change every day,” declared Joachim Rath, head of IT Production at AutoScout24. “The joint offering from VMware and T-Systems enables us to move spare capacity between the private cloud and the hybrid cloud as required.” AutoScout24 has already had positive experience with the use of combined internal and external IT resources, the so-called hybrid cloud. The company uses the hybrid cloud for its workshop portal (www.werkstatt.autoscout24.de) whenever it is dealing with CPU-intensive additional import processes. However, the vCloud offering from T-Systems does not only help to cope with peak demand periods. If a company's internal IT drops out, vCloud could be used to continue the entire operation from the cloud.

Among the other companies who are already using the vCloud offering is Actum/G2, one of the leading digital marketing agencies in the Czech Republic. Via its New York headquarters, Actum/G2 is part of the WPP Group, which has 102,000 employees and is one of the world's largest media and communication enterprises. The Prague agency develops and operates websites, apps and web applications from the cloud for its customers. T-Systems provides Actum/G2 with the cloud infrastructure as a self-service model with high availability, security and rapid response times.

Many companies have already virtualized more than 50 percent of their own servers, thereby gaining distinct advantages in terms of efficiency and IT management. Through the use, tried and tested for years, of VMware cloud technologies, T-Systems offers cloud services to the same industrial standard as companies all over the world are already using themselves. This means that the latter benefit not only from the agility and flexibility of cloud services, but also from the portability, compatibility, security and control which are indispensable for large corporations.