Engineering Deutsche Telekom's sovereign data platform
Imagine transforming a sprawling, 20-year-old telecommunications data ecosystem, laden with sensitive customer information and bound by stringent European regulations, into a nimble, cloud-native powerhouse. That's precisely the challenge Deutsche Telekom tackled head-on, explains Ashutosh Mishra. By using Google Cloud's Sovereign Cloud offerings, they've built a groundbreaking "One Data Ecosystem." When we decided to modernize our telecommunications data ecosystem at Deutsche Telekom, we faced a daunting task. Over 40 legacy systems, each an ecosystem (data warehouse or data lake), held terabytes of customer, network, and operational data. Each system had 5,000 to 10,000 users who had built their workflows around these [...]