Everything Everywhere starts cloud migration

Everything Everywhere has transferred around 200 of its IT staff and contractors to Deutsche Telekom's corporate infrastructure business, T-Systems, as part of a drive to shift the company's IT systems to a cloud-based platform.

Everything Everywhere represents the merged operations of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, so the outsourcing keeps the employees and contractors within the France Telecom-Deutsche Telekom axis. All the affected staff will stay in their current locations, with the majority being in Bristol and the rest in Hatfield, Darlington and Leeds.

Announcing the move on Friday, Everything everywhere chief information officer Fotis Karonis said the seven-year outsourcing deal would see 40 percent of the company's IT estate move to T-Systems' cloud-based dynamic services platform over the next three years.

"The move to cloud computing will accelerate the transformation of Everything Everywhere's IT capability, enabling it to flex its IT requirements up and down in line with business volumes," Karonis said in a statement.

T-Systems has offered cloud services under the Dynamic Services brand since 2004, and has more than 500 customers.