ITK distributor MICHAEL AG relies on Yorizon Cloud

Berlin, 03 September 2025: Yorizon, a pioneer in sustainable edge cloud solutions, and MICHAEL AG announce their partnership. The broadly positioned ICT distributor is thus continuing its successful growth trajectory with cloud services. The Yorizon cloud concept is also particularly important here, combining high scalability with digital sovereignty and green IT.

MICHAEL AG is relying on Yorizon cloud infrastructures for its further growth strategy with cloud-based products and services. “As an ICT distributor, it is our aspiration to support our partners in a future-oriented way, including with cloud requirements,” says Oliver Hemann, member of the Executive Board of MICHAEL AG. “This includes cloud products as well as managed services and knowledge transfer. The partnership with Yorizon is therefore a strategic step: their highly scalable cloud infrastructures, together with the flexible open-source platform, provide an ideal basis for a high-performance partner ecosystem with innovative solution offerings.”

Yorizon's cloud infrastructures are geared holistically toward digitally sovereign solutions. Yorizon’s standardized open-source technology stack prevents vendor lock-in; the network of regional edge cloud data centers ensures secure, locally anchored data processing and storage – an aspect that is essential not least for regulated industries, real-time applications, and innovative AI solutions. “An important strategic factor for our partners is also our consistent ‘channel-only’ strategy,” explains Gernot Hofstetter, Co-CEO of Yorizon. “This includes enabling our partners to market cloud solutions under their own brand name through white-label cloud services. In addition to direct system interfaces (APIs), the provision of cloud services is simplified by an intuitive portal for cloud management, which ensures full cost transparency and automated status reports at all times.”

About Yorizon

Yorizon is a pioneer in green IT cloud computing solutions and is driving the next generation of decentralized edge cloud data centers in Germany and Europe. With open-source technologies, Yorizon is creating the prerequisites for digital

sovereignty, to realize solutions independently and flexibly for demanding enterprise IT environments with the highest security standards.

With headquarters in Berlin and Vienna, Yorizon operates as a joint-venture startup of HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions and Thomas-Krenn.AG.

From building architecture to the technology stack, Yorizon relies on holistically sustainable YEXIO edge cloud data centers that are integrated into local renewable energy supply and district heating systems. The data centers are designed and built by HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions and equipped with water-cooled servers from Thomas-Krenn.AG.

Yorizon targets Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Value Added Resellers (VARs), and system houses, as well as companies and municipalities, and supports hybrid, multi- and poly-cloud architectures. The portfolio includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), combined with an innovative marketplace for integrated microservices and partner products.

More information can be found at www.yorizon.com.

Press contact:

Yorizon GmbH & Co. KG
Ursula Koller
Head of Marketing
ursula.koller@yorizon.com

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Gisela Knabl
Phone: 089-289 74 980
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About MICHAEL AG

MICHAEL AG is an established wholesale company in IT and telecommunications and has been active in telecommunications and information technology since 1984. The company, based in Lower Saxony, offers around 8,500 retailers in Germany and abroad a professional portfolio of services focusing on IT & telecommunications distribution, goods trading and shipping, network marketing, training and consulting. As a full-range supplier, MICHAEL AG delivers more than 25,000 items from over 250 manufacturers quickly and reliably.

More information at: www.michael-ag.de