Insights

T‑Systems and IPOINT have launched an end‑to‑end solution that enables automotive manufacturers and suppliers to track product carbon footprints across global supply chains. By combining IPOINT’s sustainability software with T‑Systems’ access to the Catena‑X data ecosystem, the solution supports transparent emissions reporting in line with EU CSRD requirements and provides actionable insights for reducing environmental impact.

When our CMS became the target of a large-scale DDoS attack, it triggered a real-world stress test of our cloud infrastructure. From saturated load balancers and 100% CPU utilization to emergency mitigation measures, this incident challenged our resilience. By rapidly implementing AWS CloudFront, AWS WAF, and a secure edge-based protection model, we successfully stabilized the system and prevented further disruption. A follow-up attack confirmed the effectiveness of the new architecture, demonstrating how proactive security design and strong collaboration ensure service continuity and long-term resilience.

During the 2026 Carnival season, the Telekom mobile network in the strongholds of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Mainz, and Aachen recorded a new data peak of 2 million gigabytes — an increase of more than 30 percent. Cologne clearly topped the city ranking. The mobile data shows strong visitor flows into Cologne, high 5G usage, and noticeable demographic differences depending on the carnival hotspot. The AI-powered RAN Guardian Agent optimized the network during more than 130 major events. Instagram was the most popular app. Additionally, anonymized Motion Data analyses support planning and safety at large-scale events.

The article explores how T‑Systems’ Motion Data leverages anonymized mobile network information to reveal real‑world fan behavior in the 2024/25 Bundesliga season. It highlights how supporters travel to home and away matches, the demographic composition of stadium audiences, and which clubs attract the largest crowds—including surprising cross‑border dynamics. By transforming assumptions into measurable insights, Motion Data enables clubs, cities, and event organizers to improve mobility planning, enhance stadium operations, and design more targeted fan engagement strategies.

Flex partnered with T-Systems to migrate ECU data exchange to Catena-X, enabling secure, multiregional, real-time validation across global production sites. Using T-Systems’ Connect & Integrate solution, Flex achieved end-to-end integration, API and Cofinity-X interface testing, and a fully validated production setup. This scalable dataspace foundation now supports future use cases including Product Carbon Footprint, Certificate Management, Battery Pass, and global traceability, while maintaining full data sovereignty.

Sovereign connectivity in dataspaces requires automating network access to ensure security, compliance, and operational scale. In the Data Intelligence Hub, we replace manual firewall updates with a declarative, Kubernetes-native model using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Customers define their allowed IP ranges through a self-service portal, which generates an IpAccessPolicy object representing the desired state. A controller then reconciles this state with the underlying infrastructure, automatically updating Kubernetes Ingress configurations and preventing drift. This architecture ensures auditability, validates inputs before enforcement, and keeps network access aligned with the principles of data sovereignty across multi-tenant environments.

At CES 2026, industry leaders demonstrated how data readiness, digital twins, and dataspace ecosystems are turning Industrial and Physical AI from experimentation into production. Through PwC’s West Hall panel, an invitation-only C-suite roundtable, open showfloor engagements, and Catena-X supplier onboarding, executives from automotive, mobility, and technology aligned on a shared message: AI success now depends on “truthful” data and governed cross-company sharing. With Web3-inspired dataspace technology already live in ecosystems like Catena-X, CES underscored a decisive shift—from product innovation to production ecosystems—where interoperable, sovereign data flows enable scalable digital twins, resilient supply chains, and measurable business outcomes.

Flex leverages Catena-X to build a reusable, standards-based automotive data ecosystem. By starting small and scaling through economies of scope, Flex delivers multiregional data solutions for ECU management, certificate compliance, and supply-chain traceability, enabling sovereign data sharing, faster innovation, and cost-efficient reuse across multiple OEMs and use cases.

Sovereign observability is now essential as organizations operate Kubernetes across fragmented multi-cloud environments. Traditional monitoring approaches fail when logs and metrics cannot leave their originating region due to compliance and data-residency constraints. This architecture solves the challenge by decoupling storage from querying: each cloud environment writes logs and metrics to its own sovereign object storage while a central observer cluster queries them on demand. Leveraging Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, and Promtail, the system provides global visibility, secure mTLS communication, isolated buckets, and a unified Grafana experience — all without violating sovereignty rules.