Data Sovereignty

At LEAP 2025, T-Systems and Detasad showcased cutting-edge dataspace solutions, driving secure data collaboration, AI innovation, and compliance in Saudi Arabia. Through strategic partnerships and cloud-agnostic platforms, we empower businesses to scale, optimize operations, and unlock new revenue opportunities in the region’s thriving digital economy.

This article outlines our experience migrating workloads from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud, culminating in the decommissioning of our last server in December 2024. The migration focused on our Motion Data product, which leverages geo-information analytics from Deutsche Telekom's mobile network to provide anonymized mass movement insights for industries such as retail, tourism, and public transport. Our transition to AWS was driven by rising colocation costs and the need to modernize our infrastructure, which faced limitations due to outdated technology constraints, high maintenance efforts, and inefficient storage and compute resource management. We selected AWS's Replatforming approach to harness managed services, improve scalability, and replace legacy Hadoop infrastructure with a more flexible Spark-on-Kubernetes and S3-based solution. The migration delivered key benefits, including 35% lower infrastructure costs, access to up-to-date technology stacks, and removal of resource constraints for compute workloads. By leveraging AWS-managed services such as Kubernetes (EKS), EMR, and RDS, we optimized performance, simplified operations, and positioned ourselves for future growth and innovation in cloud-native environments.

T-Systems and NTT Communications are pioneering global dataspace collaboration, bridging Europe and Japan with interoperable data-sharing ecosystems. This partnership leverages T-Systems’ Build & Operate testbed and NTT’s local expertise to foster innovation, trust, and secure cross-border data sharing.

At CES 2025, dataspaces take center stage in AI readiness and supply chain transformation. With pioneers like Catena-X and Ouranos, cross-organizational data sharing is unlocking high-quality datasets for AI and digital twins. Showcasing business cases from Ford-Flex+ to IAV’s internal dataspace, we explore how dataspaces fuel sustainability, efficiency, and next-gen automotive innovation.

This blog highlights how T-Systems, an AWS Sovereign Cloud Partner, addresses the growing demand for digital sovereignty. It explores the challenges businesses face in managing data security, regulatory compliance, and innovation in a cloud-first world. The post details T-Systems’ advanced solutions like Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) and dataspaces, which empower organizations to maintain control over their data, ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR, and enable trusted data collaboration across ecosystems. Tailored for industries like healthcare, finance, and the public sector, these offerings provide secure, scalable, and compliant tools for a digital-first era.

The Danish Data Space Forum and Gaia-X Hub launch showcases how businesses can securely share data using advanced dataspaces. T-Systems offers accessible, standardized solutions enabling organizations to focus on unlocking economic benefits rather than managing complex technology, supporting all industries in leveraging dataspaces effectively.

The Global Data Spaces Connect in Vienna highlighted the transition from technical exploration to practical, business-driven applications of dataspaces. With insights from experts like Wolfgang Ebner, Nina Popanton, and Sofie Verbrugge, the event showcased cross-domain innovations, sustainable business models, and real-world applications in fields such as smart cities and healthcare. Leaders emphasized the importance of collaboration, robust business cases, and scalability, underscoring dataspaces' potential to transform industries.

The Loire release of the Gaia-X Trust Framework emphasizes compliance for Cloud Services, aligning with key national and international standards. This article provides a comprehensive guide to achieving Gaia-X compliance for Cloud Services, specifically through the Digital.ID solution from T-Systems. It outlines the requirements, processes, and benefits of adopting this framework, ensuring that services meet Gaia-X's stringent trust and interoperability standards.

The GovTech Leaders event showcased how innovation is transforming the public sector, with Lithuania and the Baltics at the forefront. The event emphasized collaboration, best practices, and leveraging technology like dataspaces to drive meaningful change. Highlights included keynote speeches from government leaders and a focus on youth-driven innovation with the European Young Innovators Jury.