Californian based MapR Technologies today announced that T-Systems has become its latest global solutions partner offering a portfolio across system integration and managed services engagements.

With a footprint in more than 20 countries, 37,900 employees, and external revenue of €6.9 billion (in 2017), T-Systems is one of the world’s leading vendor independent providers of digital services headquartered in Europe.

The appointment of T-Systems as a Global Solutions Partner will help customers benefit from advances in AI, reduce costs through modernizing their environments, and take advantage of innovations in IoT, Edge and Cloud, the company claims.

“We have built a close relationship with MapR through several major customer projects and we are happy to announce a strengthening of our relationship by becoming a MapR Global Solutions Partner,” said Stefan Zosel, head of sales, managed cloud services platform for T-Systems.

T-Systems offers a variety of services including the secure operation of legacy systems and classical ICT services, the transition to cloud-based services (including international networks, tailored infrastructure, platforms and software) as well as new business models and innovation projects in the Internet of Things.

The MapR Data Platform is an all-software data platform for AI and analytics that runs on commodity hardware across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments. MapR users store, manage, process, and analyse all kinds of data with mission-critical reliability while meeting production SLAs.

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