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Sovereign Disaster Recovery for European SMEs: Building a Truly Open Source Alternative
The announcement of Europe’s first Sovereign Disaster Recovery Pack by Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud and StorPool Storage at the European Data Summit in Berlin marks an important milestone. It validates what many of us in the European infrastructure space have been saying for years: organisations need a concrete, deployable answer to the question of what…
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Linux Desktop Privacy Risks: What European Businesses Need to Know
Switching your company’s desktops from Windows to Linux is one of the smartest moves a European business can make. You reduce licensing costs, eliminate forced telemetry to US servers and gain full control over your IT environment. But here is the part that most organisations overlook: a default Linux installation is not private out of…
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Why We Build Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure with Incus
European businesses face a strategic decision that goes far beyond choosing a hosting provider. Every time an organization places its data and applications on a third-party cloud or SaaS platform, it accepts a dependency: on someone else’s jurisdiction, on opaque pricing models, on a vendor’s roadmap it cannot influence and on that vendor’s ability or…
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Why We Choose Debian Over Ubuntu for Business Infrastructure
When businesses evaluate Linux for their server infrastructure, Ubuntu often comes up first. It has strong brand recognition, extensive documentation and a large community. For years, we recommended and deployed Ubuntu ourselves. We don’t anymore. After more than two decades of building and managing Linux infrastructure for European businesses, we have made Debian our default…
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Copy Fail: What European Businesses Need to Know About CVE-2026-31431
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed on April 29, 2026. CVE-2026-31431, nicknamed “Copy Fail,” allows any local user on a Linux system to escalate their privileges to root. It affects every major Linux distribution shipping kernels built since 2017, and a working exploit was published within hours of the disclosure. This…
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Why European Businesses Are Returning to Self-Hosted Email
Not so long ago, most companies ran their own email servers, often Microsoft Exchange, on hardware sitting in their own building. Messages were stored locally. There was no third-party scanning content, no data harvested for commercial purposes, and no foreign government with a legal route to your inbox. The shift to the cloud changed that.…
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Digital Sovereignty: A Practical Guide for European IT Leaders
The past year has been eventful for anyone following the relationship between European regulators and American technology companies. Visa bans on former EU officials, tariff threats tied to tech regulation, US diplomats lobbying European capitals against the Digital Services Act. The headlines have been hard to miss. But this article isn’t about politics. It’s about…
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Decentralizing Tech: The Open Source Movement’s Impact
In today’s digital landscape, open source software forms the backbone of much of our technological infrastructure. From the devices in our pockets to the servers powering the internet, open source solutions are ubiquitous, driving innovation and enabling countless individuals and organizations to build, learn, and create. Open source is more than just a development methodology;…
