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Achieve Digital Sovereignty with Secure Object Storage for Big Data
Managing big data securely in the EU presents major compliance and cost challenges. A strong majority of EU leaders now demand sovereign solutions to avoid CLOUD Act exposure and unpredictable fees. Discover a practical, enterprise-ready EU alternative built for performance and control.
Key Takeawys
True digital sovereignty requires EU-based object storage with country-level geofencing to eliminate CLOUD Act exposure and ensure GDPR compliance.
Eliminating egress fees and API call costs is critical for big data workloads, as these hidden charges can consume nearly 50% of cloud storage budgets.
An 'Always-Hot' storage model with full S3 compatibility and immutable backups (Object Lock) provides superior performance and ransomware resilience compared to complex, tiered architectures.
Enterprises leveraging big data face a critical challenge: ensuring security and compliance without sacrificing performance or budget control. The reliance on non-EU cloud providers introduces significant risks, including exposure to foreign laws like the CLOUD Act and budget overruns from opaque fees. More than 80% of industrial data in the EU remains unused, partly due to these complexities. This article outlines a strategy for deploying secure object storage for big data that is sovereign by design, offering a clear path to GDPR, NIS-2, and EU Data Act readiness while eliminating vendor lock-in through a 100% S3-compatible, zero-egress-fee model.
Establish Sovereignty to Mitigate Big Data Risk
A US court can compel providers under its jurisdiction to disclose data stored anywhere, overriding EU privacy protections. This CLOUD Act exposure creates a direct conflict with GDPR's mandate to protect EU residents' personal data. Our geofenced storage operates exclusively in certified European data centers, ensuring your data remains under EU law. This country-level geofencing is a key criterion for over 70% of EU decision-makers. This approach provides the legal certainty required for regulated workloads, directly addressing sovereignty concerns. It prepares your architecture for total EU data control.
Deploy a Resilient, High-Performance Architecture
Complex tiering models create operational fragility, leading to restore delays and API timeouts that impact big data analytics. Our “Always-Hot” object storage model ensures all data is immediately accessible, with 0 restore delays. This architecture provides the strong read/write consistency needed for mixed workloads, from millions of small files to large archives. Full S3 API compatibility protects your existing investments. It allows your teams to keep using familiar tools and scripts without any code rewrites, simplifying migration by 100%. This design guarantees both performance parity and operational simplicity.
Neutralize Ransomware Threats to Large Datasets
Ransomware attacks in Europe surged by over 80% between 2023 and 2024, with nearly 1,300 reported cases. To counter this, our platform includes Immutable Storage with Object Lock as a core feature. This function makes your backup and archive data unchangeable for a set period, creating a secure copy that ransomware cannot encrypt. This provides an audit-ready retention policy for 100% of your critical data. You can find more details in our guide to ransomware prevention. This immutability is your last line of defense, ensuring you can restore operations after an attack with zero data loss.
Future-Proof Your Compliance with EU Regulations
Forthcoming EU laws create new obligations for data handlers, and your storage must be ready for these changes. Here is how a sovereign architecture helps you prepare:
EU Data Act (Sept 2025): This regulation mandates data portability to prevent vendor lock-in, a principle our platform supports by design. It ensures you can transfer all data and metadata without obstacles.
NIS-2 Directive: This directive requires robust supply-chain security and continuous risk management, which our certified EU-only operations fulfill. It mandates measures like multi-factor authentication and encryption, which are built into our service.
By aligning with these frameworks, your data protection strategy becomes a competitive advantage.
Eliminate Unpredictable Costs and Vendor Lock-In
Hidden egress and API call fees can account for up to 47% of a European company's cloud storage budget. We eliminate these charges entirely, offering a transparent model with no egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum storage durations. This predictable-by-design approach can reduce total storage costs by over 50% for data-intensive workloads. This economic clarity allows you to scale your big data projects without fear of surprise bills. This financial predictability empowers you to focus on innovation, not cost management.
Accelerate Channel Growth with a Partner-Ready Platform
For MSPs and resellers, predictable margins are essential for building defensible Backup-as-a-Service offerings. Our zero-egress-fee model ensures the margins you set are the margins you keep, improving profitability by at least 25%. The platform is partner-ready with a multi-tenant console, full automation via API/CLI, and robust reporting tools. We have expanded local access for UK partners through our distributor Northamber plc. This channel focus simplifies onboarding and management, allowing you to deliver sovereign storage solutions to your clients in under 24 hours.
Demand an Enterprise-Ready Storage Standard
More Links
IT Planning Council provides a PDF document outlining Germany's strategy to strengthen digital sovereignty.
Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) offers interactive graphics on the use of Big Data analytics in German businesses.
Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) provides a glossary entry defining Big Data within the context of ICT in businesses.
FAQ
What makes your object storage 'sovereign by design'?
Our object storage is 'sovereign by design' because we operate exclusively in certified European data centers. We offer country-level geofencing to guarantee data stays within a chosen EU region, under EU law, fully compliant with GDPR and shielded from the US CLOUD Act.
Are there really no egress fees or other hidden costs?
Correct. Our pricing is transparent and predictable. We charge only for the storage you use, with no fees for data egress (outbound data transfer), no API call charges, and no minimum storage durations. This eliminates the surprise costs that inflate bills from other providers.
How does your S3 compatibility help with migration?
Our platform offers full S3 API compatibility, meaning any existing applications, scripts, or tools that use the S3 protocol will work without modification. This protects your past investments and makes migration seamless—you simply change the endpoint to point to our service.
How does Object Lock protect my data from ransomware?
Object Lock creates immutable backups. When you enable it for a specified period, your data cannot be deleted, modified, or encrypted by anyone—not even an administrator with root access. If you are hit by ransomware, you can restore your operations from this clean, unchangeable copy.
Is your platform suitable for Managed Service Providers (MSPs)?
Yes, it is designed for our partners. We provide a multi-tenant management console, full automation via API and CLI, and predictable pricing with zero egress fees, which allows MSPs to build profitable and defensible Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and archiving solutions.
How do you align with the new EU Data Act?
The EU Data Act, effective September 2025, mandates data portability to prevent vendor lock-in. Our use of the standard S3 API and our zero-egress-fee policy ensures you can always move your data to another provider or on-premises without technical or financial penalties, fully aligning with the spirit and letter of the law.
