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Strengthen the resilience of your critical infrastructure with a sovereign, highly available cloud platform from STACKIT. This reliably safeguards grid operations, market communication, and your business-critical applications even in crisis situations.

The Challenge: Critical Infrastructure Is Under Pressure

Energy utilities are the backbone of public services—yet regulatory pressure, cyber risks, and the complexity of energy generation are all on the rise. Many IT and OT landscapes have evolved over time, are difficult to maintain, and offer only limited preparedness for disruptions. As a result, utilities face increasing structural challenges in ensuring stable and resilient operations:

Increasing cyberattacks

A lack of network segmentation and the increasing connectivity of devices create additional entry points for cyberattacks.

NIS2 requirements

New regulatory requirements are increasing the pressure on availability, monitoring, and incident response.

Dependence on legacy systems

Monolithic systems and data silos make redundancy and rapid recovery difficult.

Complex IT/OT integration

IT and OT systems are becoming increasingly intertwined. As a result, IT disruptions have a direct impact on grid operations, plant control, and customer communication.

Staff shortages and high operating costs

Specialists are bogged down in day-to-day operations rather than building resilience. As a result, there is a lack of resources to strategically strengthen the infrastructure’s resilience.

Dependence on non-European hyperscalers

Extraterritorial access rights can jeopardize compliance requirements and data sovereignty.

Measurable added value: Greater reliability, less risk

Resilience is a measurable business factor for energy providers: Those who operate their critical applications stably and confidently reduce risks and create a robust foundation for digital transformation. With a confident, standardized cloud infrastructure on STACKIT, you strengthen the resilience of your IT landscape and increase your planning reliability—with a measurable impact on stability, security, and operations:

  • Higher availability of critical applications: Redundant setups reduce downtime for customer portals, market communication systems, and analytics and reporting services.
  • Shorter recovery times: Standardized backup and DR concepts reduce RTO and RPO to hours or minutes.
  • Fewer security and compliance risks: An infrastructure designed for high security standards and GDPR compliance that supports NIS2-compliant architectures reduces audit and liability risks.
  • Relief for IT teams: Platform services reduce operational overhead and free up resources for architecture and security.
  • Stable foundation for new use cases: Cloud-native structures facilitate AI analytics and automated reporting.

The Solution: A Resilient Cloud Architecture for Critical Energy Workloads

The secure operation of critical energy applications requires a highly available and clearly structured IT architecture. With STACKIT, you can gradually migrate your business-critical applications to a standardized and sovereign cloud environment.

You separate production, test, and security environments within a segmented multi-tenant architecture, thereby reducing risks during ongoing operations. Automated backup and disaster recovery strategies reliably protect core systems using snapshots, geographic replication, and tested recovery processes.

Dedicated connections, access controls, and zero-trust principles protect communication between control centers, OT systems, and applications. Centralized monitoring oversees infrastructure, applications, and security events, thereby supporting an architecture that addresses NIS2, KRITIS, and GDPR requirements from the outset.
 

The Competitive Advantage: Confident, Secure, and Scalable

For energy providers, resilience has long been a strategic competitive factor: customers, regulators, and partners expect stable services, transparent processes, and confident data handling.

Your advantage with STACKIT:

European data sovereignty

Your data is subject exclusively to European law, is processed in compliance with the GDPR, and is protected against extraterritorial access rights.

KRITIS-certified infrastructure

Highly available data centers and a BSI C5 certification provide a robust foundation for critical energy applications and support the implementation of NIS2 requirements.

Scalable for future requirements

Whether it’s the expansion of renewable energy, smart meter rollout, or new market regulations—the cloud-native architecture grows with your needs.

Partner ecosystem for energy use cases

ISV partners in the fields of grid analytics, energy management, and compliance can be integrated directly into STACKIT—without compromising on security and resilience.

The Foundation: Technological Building Blocks for Greater Resilience

This use case is based on proven STACKIT services specifically designed for highly critical applications and sensitive data streams in the energy sector:

Hero Image Compute Engine

STACKIT Compute Engine

Elastic computing platform for data processing, real-time analytics, and AI models.

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STACKIT Kubernetes Engine

Orchestration of containerized microservices—from connectivity and data enrichment to APIs and dashboards.

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STACKIT Object Storage

Secure, cost-effective storage of historical production data, log files, and event streams.
 

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STACKIT PostgreSQL Flex

Managed database service for metadata, configurations, and reporting.
 

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ISV Partner Ecosystem

Seamless integration of Industrial IoT solutions as a data orchestration layer for the unified namespace and complex rule engines 

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