Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems serves up a free trial of VMware's private cloud service

T-Systems, the IT and digital services division of Deutsche Telekom, is letting customers kick the tires on private cloud usage via a free trial.The free trial, which uses VMware's cloud-based service, is slated to start Dec. 1 with a maximum length of six weeks. At next week's Digital X conference, T-Systems will be launching its "Multi & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Management Framework," which it said was well-suited for large corporations and small-to-medium-sized enterprises. At Digital X, which takes place next Monday and Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, companies can sign up for the free trial. The trial with VMware will allow customers to flexibly use private cloud capacity from a T-Systems data center that will have the same look and feel as public cloud services. T-Systems said similar services for Microsoft Azure Stack and OpenStack will be forthcoming based on the same model.