Geopolitical developments and increasing regulatory requirements are bringing digital sovereignty into focus for European companies. Local cloud providers in the EU are gaining importance – not as a replacement, but as a strategic complement to global platforms. TransformIT Europe brings together the relevant players and decision-makers to drive this development forward in a practical way.
By Jan Nintemann and Jochen Siegle; Photo: Ismail Enes Ayhan via Unsplash
The desire for greater digital independence is increasingly influencing the cloud strategies of European companies. A new Gartner study shows that 61 percent of CIOs and IT managers in Western Europe plan to expand the use of local or regional cloud services.
By 2030, over 75 percent of companies outside the U.S. are expected to have a formalized digital sovereignty strategy.
The focus is on data sovereignty, compliance with European regulations, and the secure processing of sensitive and business-critical data within Europe. EU-based cloud and infrastructure models are becoming increasingly important, especially in regulated industries and for critical infrastructures.
Growing market – with clear fields of application
The trend towards local cloud providers is real, but it is developing in a differentiated way. While global hyperscalers continue to play a central role in scaling and innovation, European providers are increasingly establishing themselves as important building blocks in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures – especially for sovereign, data protection-critical and industry-specific workloads.
Open source technologies are also being used more and more to promote transparency, interoperability and long-term independence.
European cloud players in focus
The TransformIT Europe trade fair & conference invites leading European cloud and infrastructure providers to present their solutions, platforms and best practices and to actively participate in the discussion, including: OVHcloud (France), IONOS Cloud (Germany), Hetzner (Germany), StackIT (Schwarz Gruppe, Germany), Scaleway (France), Aruba Cloud (Italy), Exoscale (Switzerland), Cleura (Sweden), UpCloud (Finland) and Open Telekom Cloud (Germany, Deutsche Telekom).
In addition, providers of sovereign cloud concepts, open source cloud stacks, edge and data center infrastructures, as well as European initiatives such as GAIA-X
Geopolitical developments and increasing regulatory requirements are bringing digital sovereignty into focus for European companies. Local cloud providers in the EU are gaining importance – not as a replacement, but as a strategic complement to global platforms. TransformIT Europe brings together the relevant players and decision-makers to drive this development forward in a practical way.
By Jan Nintemann and Jochen Siegle; Photo: Ismail Enes Ayhan via Unsplash
The desire for greater digital independence is increasingly influencing the cloud strategies of European companies. A new Gartner study shows that 61 percent of CIOs and IT managers in Western Europe plan to expand the use of local or regional cloud services.
By 2030, over 75 percent of companies outside the U.S. are expected to have a formalized digital sovereignty strategy.
The focus is on data sovereignty, compliance with European regulations, and the secure processing of sensitive and business-critical data within Europe. EU-based cloud and infrastructure models are becoming increasingly important, especially in regulated industries and for critical infrastructures.
Growing market – with clear fields of application
The trend towards local cloud providers is real, but it is developing in a differentiated way. While global hyperscalers continue to play a central role in scaling and innovation, European providers are increasingly establishing themselves as important building blocks in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures – especially for sovereign, data protection-critical and industry-specific workloads.
Open source technologies are also being used more and more to promote transparency, interoperability and long-term independence.
European cloud players in focus
The TransformIT Europe trade fair & conference invites leading European cloud and infrastructure providers to present their solutions, platforms and best practices and to actively participate in the discussion, including: OVHcloud (France), IONOS Cloud (Germany), Hetzner (Germany), StackIT (Schwarz Gruppe, Germany), Scaleway (France), Aruba Cloud (Italy), Exoscale (Switzerland), Cleura (Sweden), UpCloud (Finland) and Open Telekom Cloud (Germany, Deutsche Telekom).
In addition, providers of sovereign cloud concepts, open source cloud stacks, edge and data center infrastructures, as well as European initiatives such as GAIA-X are expressly invited to participate as exhibitors and conference speakers.
Central platform in Brussels
TransformIT Europe offers decision-makers, technology providers and users a central platform to promote the concrete implementation of future-proof, sovereign cloud strategies in Europe.
We look forward to the exchange – and to strong European cloud players at the TransformIT Europe trade fair & conference from May 5–8, 2026 in Brussels.
Sources & Links
- https://www.bitkom.org/Presse/Presseinformation/Europas-Weg-digitale-Souveraenitaet
- https://www.cloudcomputing-insider.de/westeuropa-cios-geopolitische-risiken-lokale-cloud-provider-a-53c13156fa6c28099489ccc27646a241/
- https://www.cio.bund.de/Webs/CIO/DE/digitale-loesungen/digitale-souveraenitaet/digitale-souveraenitaet-node.html
