The European Union’s looming General Data Protection Regulation may make running single applications on hybrid information technology — a tricky business to begin with — even trickier, according to Roland Voelskow (pictured, right), portfolio executive of IT hosting and cloud services at T-Systems International GmbH (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG.

This is one reason T-Systems has increased its focus on virtualization and Infrastructure as a Service. “We want to cover the application needs and have the rest automated,” Voelskow told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.)

Voelskow joined Dinesh Nirmal (pictured, left), vice president of IBM Analytics development at IBM Corp., at the IBM Fast Track Your Data event in Germany to discuss their companies’ collaboration. 

T-Systems is tackling the hybrid challenge with containers to move applications among different cloud or on-premise environments, Voelskow explained. “Everything which is related to the right place to run the application will be managed automatically by our intelligent platform,” he said.

It’s also possible to use containers to infuse new products into its platform, Nirmal added. “Our goal is to make every product a container, a containerized way to deliver,” he said.

The platform uses IBM’s data analytics, as well as its new Information Governance Catalog, to select appropriate infrastructure for diverse applications. “The key piece of all of this would be the unified data governance catalog which is … you have one place to go govern the data as the CDO [chief data officer],” Nirmal said.

IBM runs amok in open-source

Much of this application technology comes from IBM’s partnering with open-source projects. And there is more on the way, Nirmal stated, including Project EventStore, an in-memory database for ingesting data into an object store for fast analytics.

“We can do more than 1 million inserts per second — more than 1 million — and our closest competition is at 30,000 inserts per second,” Nirmal concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of the IBM Fast Track Your Data event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for IBM Fast Track Your Data. Neither IBM nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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