NeoNephos expands its open source cloud ecosystem with new members to accelerate interoperable, sovereign EU infrastructure across cloud-to-edge environments.
NeoNephos Foundation has expanded its pan-European open-source cloud coalition with the addition of BWI GmbH as a Premier Member, SUSE LLC as a General Member, and Fraunhofer ISST as an Associate Member. The move strengthens efforts to build an open, interoperable, federated cloud infrastructure aligned with Europe’s digital sovereignty goals.
The expansion reinforces NeoNephos as a critical building block in the EU’s sovereign digital and security architecture, advancing open-source technologies for a federated cloud-to-edge continuum. The initiative supports the EU’s IPCEI-CIS programme, enabling seamless cloud and edge service usage across providers while reducing vendor lock-in.
“Open source collaboration is essential for building the next generation of trusted cloud infrastructure,” said Christian Neu, Governing Board Chair, NeoNephos Foundation. “The addition of BWI GmbH, SUSE LLC and Fraunhofer ISST to the NeoNephos member community demonstrates strong momentum behind open, interoperable cloud technologies that give organizations greater choice, flexibility and control over their infrastructure.”
The new members bring combined expertise across industry, public sector, and research, accelerating innovation across cloud infrastructure, SaaS, platform services, and public systems.
“As its primary partner for digitalization we contribute to the continuous improvement of the command, control and operational capabilities of the Bundeswehr,” said Dr. Christian Marwitz, Chief Digital Officer, Management Board, BWI GmbH. “By building a private multi-cloud for the German Armed Forces, we aim to move towards agile, modular, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud-based architectures that meet the requirements regarding resilience, sovereignty, interoperability, and security of their IT systems. We base that multi-cloud platform on core technologies derived from reliable partners and a healthy European open-source ecosystem. That is why we engage in the NeoNephos Foundation and become a significant part of this ecosystem.”
“NeoNephos offers us an exciting partner network with which we want to advance lifecycle management in an edge-cloud continuum,” said Heinrich Pettenpohl, Head of Department IT Service Providers, Fraunhofer ISST. “Our goal is to shift and reduce resource consumption and adapt it to the required environments and use cases. We also look forward to collaborating on infrastructure assistants for optimization and error analysis.”
“For over 30 years, SUSE has pioneered open source solutions to deliver unparalleled choice and innovation to our customers,” said Diego Akechi, General Manager, SAP Business Unit, SUSE. “Alongside partners like SAP, we take pride in making open source a reliable, trusted foundation for the world’s most critical enterprises. Joining NeoNephos reinforces our commitment to open source and our core beliefs around collaboration and trust as the way to accelerate innovation for the EU open source community.”
