Today at the European Data Summit of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud, and StorPool Storage unveil Europe’s first fully sovereign disaster recovery pack.
The system is designed to guarantee business continuity for organisations in the face of uncontrollable, catastrophic external events, including a potential foreign vendor kill-switch. It also safeguards European enterprises’ data and operations while protecting them from dependencies on foreign technology infrastructure.
The initiative gives European organisations a fast, concrete answer to an increasingly urgent question: which critical workloads should move to a fully sovereign European IT software stack — and how companies can start doing so immediately, without disruption.
The initiative addresses a growing gap in Europe’s digital infrastructure market, where sovereign digital solutions still face both demand- and supply-side challenges. Demand is rising, driven by geopolitical uncertainty, stricter regulation, and the need for greater control over critical data and services.
Many organisations still face the same issue: credible European solutions exist across the stack, but they are not always available as one integrated option ready to deploy.
Focused on addressing the specific need to handle disaster scenarios, this pack also represents a practical first step towards data repatriation and regaining control of workloads from foreign vendors.
Addressing IT managers’ concerns about the maturity of European alternatives and the risks of shifting operational workloads, the package approach bundles existing market products with established, proven quality to offer a credible, fast, and focused solution for the most critical business use cases.
In the spirit of the EuroStack concept, the Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack is designed to help close that gap. It combines complementary technologies spanning from storage and multi-cloud orchestration to network, identity, observability, and management, bringing together European open-source and proprietary components in a single deployable stack designed to reduce fragmentation and accelerate adoption.
In a few hours, the Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack enables organisations to implement a practical approach to reducing reliance on non-European cloud infrastructure without replacing everything at once. Additional integrations are expected to follow as further integrated use cases are made public.
Disaster recovery is a natural starting point. If a critical cloud dependency puts services or data at risk of becoming unavailable, inaccessible, or strategically unsustainable — for example, in a kill-switch scenario that disrupts access overnight — the recovery path matters as much as the production environment itself.
The Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack enables organisations to identify critical services, build and validate a sovereign recovery setup, and progressively extend it across other workloads through synchronisation and migration. It also provides a practical route to support compliance with stringent frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, GDPR, and regional laws, while preserving full European sovereignty across the technology stack.
In this way, disaster recovery becomes not only a resilience measure, but also a practical first step towards a broader sovereign cloud strategy.
The technologies combined come from companies born in and based across Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and Bulgaria, marking a successful collaboration among European companies listed in the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue , in the spirit of the EuroStack manifesto and vision.
The Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack has already been deployed by an Italian IT service provider and, thanks to its open architecture, can be integrated by any organisation, including through direct deployment on customer premises across Europe. Over the coming weeks, additional partners of Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud, and StorPool Storage are aiming to integrate the solution into their operations.
According to Alessandro Cillario, co-CEO and co-founder of Cubbit, European digital sovereignty will only scale when it becomes practical to adopt.
“The Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack starts from a concrete operational need already being raised by some of Europe’s largest enterprises — disaster recovery — and turns it into one deployable solution. It gives organisations a realistic way to strengthen resilience, retain control over critical data and services, and begin building a sovereign alternative over time.”
Andreas Prins, Global Head Sovereign Solutions at SUSE, said:
“By integrating SUSE’s enterprise-grade open-source foundations with the specialised expertise of our partners, we are proving that Europe doesn’t just have the components, we have the complete, mission-critical stack.”
Gabriele Fronzé, CEO and co-founder of Elemento Cloud, said:
“This initiative turns sovereignty into an operational reality, enabling a concrete exit from dependency on non-European infrastructure. Elemento empowers this through the first vendor-neutral control plane, Electros, and our hypervisor, AtomOS, unifying fragmented environments into a single, resilient system.”
Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool Storage, said:
“The existing alternatives are few and sparse, and we are now improving that with the introduction of the Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack initiative.”
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