Schwarz Digits and MaibornWolff Form Strategic Partnership for Sovereign Cloud Innovation

• Schwarz Digits delivers a data-sovereign cloud with STACKIT as the foundation for independent and secure IT infrastructures from Germany for Europe.
• MaibornWolff complements this with profound expertise in developing complex IT systems and data-driven solutions.
• The joint goal is the secure and future-oriented digitalization of companies based on a GDPR-compliant cloud.

 Neckarsulm, June 10, 2025 – Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, and MaibornWolff, a renowned expert in developing complex IT systems, announce a strategic partnership. The goal of this collaboration is to offer companies in Germany and Europe comprehensive sovereign and secure digitalization solutions based on the STACKIT Cloud.

A key focus of the collaboration is the joint development and implementation of customized platform solutions, analytical workloads and AI applications, all fully operated on STACKIT's cloud services. These solutions enable companies to securely migrate even highly critical workloads to the cloud – without compromising on compliance, performance or data sovereignty.

Focus on Data Sovereignty

"The demand for independent and secure IT infrastructures and for expertise in implementing complex digitalization projects is continuously increasing," says Bernie Wagner, Executive Vice President Sales Schwarz Digits and CEO STACKIT. "With MaibornWolff, we have found a partner who shares our vision of digital sovereignty and whose profound expertise in software development and cloud transformation perfectly complements our sovereign cloud offering STACKIT. Together we can support companies in shaping their digital processes to be future-proof and self-determined based on a cloud hosted in Germany, while meeting the highest requirements for data security and control."

"We are very pleased about this new partnership. The chemistry between the people at STACKIT and MaibornWolff was right from the start. This partnership brings our expertise in developing complex IT systems together with an innovative European cloud platform," says Alexander Hofmann, CTO at MaibornWolff. "This consistently follows our customers' desire for more sovereignty and multi-cloud strategies. The benefits for our customers are clear: maximum data sovereignty through a cloud operated in Germany and Austria that meets the strictest European standards. Together with STACKIT's top team, we can accelerate our customers' digitalization projects and align their systems for the future on a modern cloud architecture."