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IT award in gold 2025 won as sovereign cloud

by Editorial Team
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IT-Award in Gold 2025
 

In this article, you will read

  • which clouds users rank as the best sovereign clouds,
  • how the Vogel IT Awards classification was developed
  • and how the Open Telekom Cloud performed.


Once again, T-Systems is among the most popular providers of sovereign clouds in Germany. In October, Vogel IT-Medien presented the company with the IT Award in Gold. The results reflect the votes of Vogel IT-Medien readers, who cast a total of 75,000 votes across six categories.

Vogel IT: A strong voice in the german IT world

Insider media are an essential part of the German IT press landscape. The six specialist portals for IT professionals—Big Data Insider, Cloud Computing Insider, Data Center Insider, IP Insider, Security Insider, and Storage Insider—reach an average of 1.5 million page impressions per month. They are among the most important independent sources of information in the German B2B environment. The IT Awards provide a meaningful picture of the various IT providers from the user perspective. They were presented for the eleventh time in 2025.

In 2025, the six portals invited readers to vote for the best providers in Cloud Application Security, Cloud Content Management, Cloud Management, Enterprise SaaS CRM, Enterprise SaaS ERP, and Sovereign Cloud. Editorial teams preselected up to ten providers in each category based on innovations, strategic decisions, or market positions between 2024 and 2025. Readers could also submit their own suggestions.

With the T Cloud portfolio, and especially the Open Telekom Cloud, T-Systems had a strong contender in the Sovereign Cloud category. On October 23 in Augsburg, Thomas Weber, VP Open Telekom Cloud, accepted the Gold IT Award on behalf of T-Systems. StackIT, which received the Silver IT Award last year, did not place in the top three for 2025. Alongside T-Systems, A1 Digital and IONOS were also among the award recipients.

Open Telekom Cloud receives IT award in gold

The 2025 IT Awards highlight the companies that enjoy exceptional trust among IT users and decision-makers and that help shape industry trends. The renewed recognition from readers reinforces the industry-wide reputation of the Open Telekom Cloud as an outstanding cloud offering. The IT Award joins other top rankings from independent analysts such as ISG and Forrester, as well as the analysis of European cloud providers conducted by Söldner IT and published in the trade magazine iX

“For us, the award is not only a recognition, but rather an incentive to help shape the cloud landscape in Europe,” says Thomas Weber, "and we will continue to consistently develop the Open Telekom Cloud next year in line with the requirements of our customers in order to offer a powerful European cloud alternative on the market.”


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