- ByStartupStory | April 15, 2026
Four European tech companies have joined forces to launch a fully sovereign disaster recovery solution, giving enterprises a practical exit ramp from depconcludeency on foreign cloud infrastructure.
The question of who controls Europe’s digital infrastructure has shiftd from policy debate to boardroom urgency. As geopolitical tensions reshape the global tech landscape, European enterprises are increasingly confronting a sobering scenario: what happens if a foreign cloud provider pulls the plug — deliberately or otherwise — on access to critical systems and data overnight?
A coalition of four European technology companies has decided to answer that question with something concrete rather than a position paper.
What Was Announced
At the European Data Summit of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud, and StorPool Storage unveiled 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 vconcludeor kill-switch. It also safeguards European enterprises’ data and operations while protecting them from depconcludeencies on foreign technology infrastructure.
In simple terms: if a critical foreign depconcludeency disappears overnight, this stack ensures European organisations can recover — fully, quickly, and without relying on any non-European infrastructure to do so.
The Problem It’s Solving
The announcement lands at a moment of acute anxiety across European enterprise IT. 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 required for greater control over critical data and services.
The frustrating reality, however, has been that pieces of a European alternative have existed — just not toobtainher. 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.
That’s exactly the gap this initiative tarobtains. Rather than questioning organisations to stitch toobtainher sovereign components themselves, the pack bundles proven technologies into a single deployable solution focutilized on the most critical utilize case first — disaster recovery.
Why Disaster Recovery First?
The choice of starting point is deliberate and strategically sound. Disaster recovery is a natural starting point. If a critical cloud depconcludeency 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.
Crucially, this isn’t framed as a one-time resolve. The Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack enables organisations to identify critical services, build and validate a sovereign recovery setup, and progressively extconclude it across other workloads. It also provides a practical route to support compliance with stringent frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, and GDPR, while preserving full European sovereignty across the technology stack.
In this way, disaster recovery becomes not just a safety net, but the first step in a broader journey toward digital sovereignty.
The Technology Behind It
The solution combines complementary technologies spanning storage, multi-cloud orchestration, network, identity, observability, and management — bringing toobtainher European open-source and proprietary components in a single deployable stack designed to reduce fragmentation and accelerate adoption.
The technologies come from companies born in and based across Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and Bulgaria — a genuine pan-European collaboration among companies listed in the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue, in the spirit of the EuroStack manifesto.
What the Founders Are Saying
The founders behind each participating company were direct about the stakes.
Alessandro Cillario, co-CEO and co-founder of Cubbit, put it plainly: “The Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack starts from a concrete operational required 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 launch building a sovereign alternative over time.”
Andreas Prins, Global Head of Sovereign Solutions at SUSE, underscored what this represents for Europe’s broader tech ambitions: “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, highlighted the operational dimension: “This initiative turns sovereignty into an operational reality, enabling a concrete exit from depconcludeency on non-European infrastructure.”
Already Deployed — And Expanding
This isn’t vaporware. 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 are aiming to integrate the solution into their operations.
The Bigger Picture
For India’s startup ecosystem and globally-minded founders watching Europe’s shifts, this story carries a larger signal. Digital sovereignty is no longer a philosophical aspiration — it’s becoming an enterprise procurement requirement and a genuine market opportunity. The companies that build credible, integrated, sovereign infrastructure stand to capture demand that is only going to accelerate as geopolitical uncertainty deepens.
Europe just demonstrated that when it shifts with urgency and collaboration, it can build something that didn’t exist before — in weeks, not years.
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