Deutsche Telekom will add Cloudflare’s security tools to its enterprise portfolio and interconnect its networks with Cloudflare’s.
Deutsche Telekom AG and Cloudflare Inc., a connectivity cloud company, announced a strategic partnership to strengthen the security and resilience of digital infrastructure for enterprises across Europe.
As part of the collaboration, Deutsche Telekom will add Cloudflare’s security and connectivity solutions to its enterprise portfolio. The two companies are directly interconnecting their networks, giving European organizations access to Cloudflare’s global cloud platform, one of the largest in the world, combined with the expertise and services of Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s leading telecommunications provider.
Through the partnership, Cloudflare will expand its reach in the European market, while Deutsche Telekom’s enterprise arm, T-Systems, will add Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud solutions for performance, reliability and security to its portfolio. Through the technical and infrastructure collaboration, Cloudflare can use Deutsche Telekom’s established sales and service organization to serve enterprise customers across Europe.
“Today we are aligning two platforms that are deeply important to how businesses operate and grow in Europe,” said Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s chief strategy officer. “By combining Cloudflare’s global connectivity and security platform with Deutsche Telekom’s infrastructure expertise and customer reach, we are helping organizations secure their networks, strengthen their resilience and accelerate transformations at a global scale. Through this partnership, we’re providing businesses with a highly innovative foundation for the next generation of the internet.”
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“With Cloudflare, we are entering a strategic partnership that lays the foundation for reliable and high-performance networks across Europe,” said Kerstin Baumgart, director of wholesale and a member of the management board of Telekom Deutschland. “What unites us is a clear ambition: to help our customers across Europe advance their digital infrastructure and manage their services with a very high degree of security and resilience. By connecting Cloudflare’s platform directly with our networks and combining our respective technological capabilities, our customers will benefit from the synergies of two highly complementary infrastructures.”
Joining forces for greater security and resilience
Enterprises face growing pressure to secure increasingly distributed, cloud-based and AI-powered IT environments. At the same time, requirements for performance and resilience continue to rise.
Deutsche Telekom and Cloudflare are bringing together complementary strengths to address these challenges. Deutsche Telekom contributes its leading European telecommunications infrastructure and longstanding relationships with enterprise customers. Its subsidiary T-Systems will add extensive expertise in consulting, integration and managed services. Cloudflare brings its global connectivity cloud and a comprehensive portfolio of network and security solutions.
The technical collaboration will provide an important foundation for the companies’ joint offerings. By directly interconnecting their networks, the partners aim to deliver high-quality end-to-end network performance and greater resilience. The network cooperation is part of a broader strategic collaboration to deliver secure digital services, from network and application security to the protection of modern cloud and AI environments.
Bringing Cloudflare security to Deutsche Telekom enterprise customers
As part of the partnership, Deutsche Telekom will add Cloudflare security solutions to its enterprise portfolio, including solutions designed to protect applications, networks and data, as well as increasingly critical AI workloads.
To ensure smooth implementation and operation, Deutsche Telekom will train and certify its professionals on the Cloudflare platform. This will enable customers to receive comprehensive support from a single provider, from consulting and implementation through ongoing operations and managed security services.
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Driving innovation for security and digital sovereignty
Beyond the planned portfolio and channel partnership, Deutsche Telekom and Cloudflare intend to collaborate on new approaches to the evolving security and digital sovereignty requirements of European enterprises. They also intend to combine their capabilities to offer solutions designed to meet European customers’ requirements for security and resilience. This includes helping to protect critical data and infrastructure against today’s threats and future security challenges using scalable, advanced post-quantum cryptography.
