Open Telekom Cloud

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Open Telekom Cloud
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Cloud computing
languages German , English
operator Deutsche Telekom AG
On-line March 14, 2016 (currently online)
https://cloud.telekom.de/infrastructure/open-telekom-cloud/

The Open Telekom Cloud from Deutsche Telekom AG is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering from the public cloud. It is based on OpenStack technology and is operated in the data centers of the subsidiary T-Systems International GmbH in Biere and Magdeburg in accordance with German data protection standards.

concept

The Open Telekom Cloud is a public cloud offering for business customers that was first presented by Deutsche Telekom AG on March 14, 2016 at CeBIT in Hanover . The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution is based on German data protection guidelines and offers companies individually configurable cloud services. With the Open Telekom Cloud, Deutsche Telekom AG is responding to current market and digitization trends. According to the representative survey “Cloud Monitor 2018” by Bitkom Research on behalf of KPMG AG, 97% of customers expect their cloud provider to comply with the EU GDPR. In addition, 57% of companies confirm that the use of public cloud has led to better availability and performance of IT services.

construction

Deutsche Telekom AG's public cloud product is based on the OpenStack software project , which provides an open architecture for cloud computing . The flexibly scalable IT resources from the cloud can be administered via a self-service portal or via programmable interfaces (API) and individual components such as CPU , RAM , storage and network can be selected and configured.

The Open Telekom Cloud is gradually being expanded and optimized. In addition to the IaaS offerings, the Open Telekom Cloud is continuously being expanded to include Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) features. The relational database service (RDS) and virtual desktop infrastructures with operating systems are already integrated, e.g. B. Windows 7 or Windows 10. Up to and including 2018, the Open Telekom Cloud published three releases with enhancements every year; since 2019, innovations have been published every month.

A first major project in compliance with European data protection and data processing regulations has already been completed: Together with CERN , the European organization for nuclear research in Geneva , Deutsche Telekom AG tested how scientific data can be processed and mapped using commercial cloud infrastructures. The Open Telekom Cloud is the basis for Mundi Web Services, which provide and process the data from the European satellite program Copernicus.

Services

In addition to computing power and storage, the services of the Open Telekom Cloud also include security, management and network services.

Computing power

As a virtual machine, the Elastic Cloud Server of the Open Telekom Cloud is primarily composed of the components processor (virtual CPU), main memory (virtual RAM) and operating system (OS image). The servers are optionally equipped with 1 to 60 vCPU . The main memory (RAM) holds between 1 and 940 gigabytes. This results in a total of over 60 possible combinations for different application scenarios and company sizes - e.g. B. for in-memory computing, graphics applications or virtual desktops. With dedicated hosts, the Open Telekom Cloud also offers customer-specific hardware for virtual machines. The hardware for this is provided by Intel . Bare metal servers (without virtualization) and FPGA flavors are also on offer. You can choose from the operating system groups Open Linux (including Ubuntu , CentOS ), Oracle Linux , SUSE Enterprise and Microsoft Windows . Since then, the range of available operating systems has been expanded to include Debian , Fedora and Red Hat . The servers can be automatically scaled using the Auto Scaling Service using configurable parameters.

Storage

With the Object Storage Service, the Open Telekom Cloud offers object-based data storage with support for files up to 5 terabytes in size that can be encrypted. The Elastic Volume Service provides data storage in block-level storage capacities of the three performance levels SATA, SAS and SSD. The Volume Backup Service and the Cloud Server Backup Service ensure regular restoration of local system and storage data from one or more Elastic Cloud Servers. With the Scalable File Service, a NAS-like storage solution based on OpenStack Manila is also available.

Security and Management

User data and authorizations are managed centrally via Telekom's myWorkplace system. Anti-DDoS ( Distributed Denial-of-Service ) protects the network from criminal attacks and Cloud Eye serves as a high-performance monitoring system with an alarm function that monitors the consumption and use of the services. The platform has an auditing function, messaging services, a management system for security keys, the option to encrypt data in block storage and object storage and Heat as an orchestration tool.

network

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is set up for network communication. VPCs isolate networks between different tenants. Elastic IPs (EIP), public IP addresses , can be obtained for communication in the Internet . The connection to the company network can be established via a VPN gateway on an IPsec basis. IP-VPN via Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is supported.

privacy

The public cloud services are provided by the twin data center in Biere / Magdeburg, which has extensive security systems. The two data centers are connected by a high-speed, low-latency network. As they are operated exclusively in German data centers, the public cloud services for companies meet the requirements for data security and data protection in Germany - international standards are supported by various certifications . Due to the data storage in Germany, the Open Telekom Cloud remains unaffected by the EU-US Privacy Shield . This regulates the protection of personal data when transferred from member states of the European Union to the USA .

Certifications

The Open Telekom Cloud is certified several times. TÜV TRUST IT GmbH ( TÜV Austria Group ) tested the Public IaaS product for IT security , operation and data protection in accordance with TÜV Trusted Cloud Services and certified it in March 2016. At the same time, the Open Telekom Cloud received a level 2 certification of the management system according to the requirements of the CSA STAR (Cloud Security Alliance Security, Trust & Assurance Registry), a non-profit organization for the dissemination of security standards in cloud computing. In December 2016, the public cloud offering was certified according to ISO 27017 and 27018 (data protection and data security in the cloud). In November 2017, Dekra certified the Open Telekom Cloud according to the Trusted Cloud data protection profile (TCDP 1.0).

Availability

  • On March 30, 2019, the entire Open Telekom Cloud was not available between 12:30 and 8:00 p.m. (source: Telekom email from April 4, 2019).
  • On June 11, 2019, the entire Open Telekom Cloud was not available between 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. due to a disruption in the internet connection (source: Telekom email from June 13, 2019).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  10. ↑ Jurry de la Mar: Big data from space : Satellite images for everyone via the Open Telekom Cloud. Jaxenter. September 17, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019
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  12. ↑ Mainzer, Sebastian: Public - and what else? The Open Telekom Cloud. DataCenter Insider. August 18, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  13. ↑ Open Telekom Cloud 1.1 - Description of services & additional conditions. Telecom. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  14. ↑ Open Telekom Cloud. Telecom. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  15. ↑ CeBIT 2016 T-Systems Guide. T-Systems. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  16. ↑ Ferri Abolhassan : Data safe for the cloud age. CRN. February 19, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
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  18. ↑ EU-US Privacy Shield: The successor to Safe Harbor has been adopted. Noerr. July 13, 2016, accessed August 5, 2016.
  19. ↑ TÜV TRUST IT GmbH Group TÜV Austria: Open Telekom Cloud with certified data security. TÜV TRUST IT. May 10, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  20. ↑ Safety award in gold. Telecom. March 17, 2016, accessed August 24, 2016.
  21. ↑ Open Telekom Cloud - Compliance. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
  22. ↑ TCDP certificate for the Open Telekom Cloud and DSI vCloud. T-Systems. November 9, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  23. ↑ Bernhard Gerlach: Root Cause Analysis and Improvements on OTC Outage 2019-03-30. T-Systems. May 8, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019