Uwe Schlager: T-Systems is part of Deutsche Telekom, and Deutsche Telekom has generally three divisions. We have offices in 28 countries at the moment, and we are growing. We have revenue of approximately €8.8 billion ($11b) a year. We have 46,000 employees, a bit more than half in Germany. We focus on large corporations, multinational companies, and in Germany especially public sector healthcare organizations and so on. 

 

We want to be a green company. At T-systems, we see it really also as a business factor, a business matter. When we look to our global data centers, energy consumption is pretty high. Data centers already make a huge contribution to the carbon footprint. For us, it's clear we have to do something, and it's also clear we invest in these new technologies in this area, and without this investment, we will not just lose customers, we will not just lose support from our customers or our image, we will also lose a main source of business here.

 

When you look globally, not just at T-systems, but at all data centers, the power bill for data centers is more than $12 billion a year. So if you can increase efficiency by 10%, you have a saving of more than $1 billion. It’s a huge amount of money for us as a service provider, and also for our customers.

 

In Asia we have made huge investments in the data center and also in the network infrastructure.

 

Everybody's talking about cloud computing, virtualizations, machine-to-machine, green ICT, and this goes as the same directions as we go with our core beliefs. We believe that cloud computing will be a game changer in our industry. It will be a consolidation, [leading to] bigger data centers.

 

People will go into shared environments, and this will help also to reduce the energy consumption, to utilize everything in a he better way. We will reduce the total bill for electricity and also for the carbon footprint.

 

You see dynamic net-centric sourcing. That's in principle—cloud computing, collaboration, mobile enterprise, security in governance, and sustainability in corporate responsibilities. These are now the four, the five core beliefs that we have, and every investment has to be classified towards these core beliefs.

 

Looking to the overall strategy for T-Systems, that's part of our strategy in 2012, to be one of the top four or top five of ICT service providers globally. To achieve this, we have to grow, especially in Asia. We have to increase our footprint in Asia, therefore we have an important role in this overall strategy from T-Systems.

 

We already implement new technologies in the very early phase. We have data centers all over the world, especially in Europe. We have data center facilities, these are pretty stable. In Asia, we invest, I would say, every year in additional data center facilities. And with this we also implement new technologies—green technologies—into our data centers. And there we are a little bit ahead than the traditional data centers in Europe just because at the moment we are investing more in the future.