Yorizon enters into a partnership with Bechtle Rheinland

Strengthening the Commitment to Sustainable Digital Sovereignty with Yorizon Cloud

Berlin, September 25, 2025: Yorizon, a pioneer in sustainable edge cloud solutions, and Bechtle Rheinland have agreed on a partnership. Bechtle Rheinland is thereby complementing its existing IT infrastructure services with sovereign open-source cloud solutions from Yorizon. Yorizon’s standardized open-source cloud platform is to be provided via scalable, geo-redundant YEXIO data centers at more than 15 locations in Germany.

“With Yorizon, we are expanding our portfolio with another European partner with whom we can meet customer requirements for digital sovereignty in the cloud,” says Thomas Stachorra, Managing Director, Bechtle Rheinland, with locations in Aachen, Essen, Cologne and Solingen. The YEXIO data centers distributed across Germany enable public-sector clients and industrial customers of Bechtle Rheinland to process and store their data locally. “We also see advantages for our automation and AI solutions, in order to ensure minimal latency, maximum data protection and compliance with strict regulatory requirements,” adds Stachorra.

“With our range of end-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions from a single source, we ensure for Bechtle Rheinland that its customers’ data and software remain in Germany and are therefore consistently subject to German and/or EU law,” says Gernot Hofstetter, Co-CEO of Yorizon.

Following the motto “Sovereign-by-Design,” Yorizon makes it easier for its partners to achieve customer goals for greater independence and sustainability in IT. “On the one hand, with our enterprise-grade open-source technology, we pursue collaborative development in line with European standards,” Hofstetter explains. “In our partner ecosystem, we work together to create sovereign solutions and data sovereignty, independent of individual technology vendors. Our cloud platform enables partners to design IT architectures for businesses and municipalities with maximum freedom of action”.

The YEXIO data centers through which Yorizon delivers its cloud services are designed from architecture to power supply according to the life-cycle principle for effective environmental and resource conservation. At the heart of the data centers are the innovative water-cooled servers from Thomas.Krenn.AG. Despite their high performance density, they require no active air conditioning, and 80 percent of the energy absorbed can be fed into local district heating systems. “This enables us to achieve a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) value of around 1.1, i.e. close to the ideal value – an aspect that is certainly relevant for our partners’ customers’ ESG or CSRS reporting,” says Hofstetter. 

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 creates the prerequisites for Digital

Sovereignty in order to realize solutions for demanding enterprise IT environments with the highest security standards independently and flexibly.

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

From building architecture to the technology stack, Yorizon relies on holistic, 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 is aimed at managed service providers (MSP), value-added resellers (VAR) and systems integrators 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), linked to an innovative marketplace for integrated microservices and partner products.

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

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Ursula Koller
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About Bechtle

Bechtle is Germany’s largest IT systems house and one of the leading IT service providers in Europe. Bechtle designs future-proof IT architectures – from classic IT infrastructure through multi-cloud, modern workplace and security to artificial intelligence and managed services. In addition, the company offers its customers intelligent financing and the implementation of sustainable concepts such as Circular IT. Together with its subsidiaries, Bechtle is one of the leading specialists for business applications, above all PLM and ERP. The multichannel strategy combines personal support at more than 120 locations in 14 European countries with digital services and global collaboration. With more than 15,500 employees, Bechtle is always close to its customers – whether medium-sized businesses, corporations or the public sector. The company is listed in the MDAX and TecDAX. In 2024, revenue amounted to €6.31 billion. More at: https://www.bechtle.com/