Together for digital sovereignty.

Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH claims no partner or reseller status: it names DTS, Palo Alto Networks, Thomas-Krenn, Hetzner and q.beyond solely to describe the products and services it uses. Naming them implies no partnership, cooperation or mutual endorsement, and all brand names, trademarks and logos remain the property of their respective owners. We work vendor-independently and select each component on technical grounds.

Each product maps to one discipline in the Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH group: Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls and Zero Trust sit behind nokkela.network, Thomas-Krenn servers and storage systems behind nokkela.host with its VMs, containers, CEPH block storage and GPU acceleration, and the managed and hosted services of DTS, Hetzner and q.beyond behind nokkela.systems. Storage services such as S3 object storage and Nextcloud run on nokkela.cloud.

Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH deploys Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls and Zero Trust security as the network-security technology behind nokkela.network. Where the appliance physically sits depends on the setup: in an on-premise project it runs in the client's own rack, in a hosted setup in infrastructure we operate in Europe. The product, its licences and its software updates come from the vendor; we plan, configure and operate the deployment.

Thomas-Krenn supplies custom-configured server and storage systems manufactured in Germany, which Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH sources for the infrastructure behind nokkela.host. Configuring each machine rather than buying a fixed model keeps CPU, RAM, disks and GPU acceleration matched to the workload. Ownership follows the model: in an on-premise project the hardware belongs to and stands with the client, in a hosted setup it stays in racks we operate in Europe.

DTS, Hetzner and q.beyond are the service providers Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH draws on, and each covers a different need. DTS provides IT security, managed services and cloud from its own German data centres for secure, sovereign operation; Hetzner provides dedicated servers, cloud and colocation in its own data centres where powerful, cost-efficient capacity is wanted; q.beyond, a listed provider from Cologne, adds cloud, SAP, managed services and cybersecurity when a project calls for it.

Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH selects established products and services against three criteria: independence, openness and European sovereignty. Independence means no vendor dictates the architecture, openness means open interfaces and formats so a component can be exchanged later, and European sovereignty means the provider or the hardware keeps the data on infrastructure in Europe. Where an established product is technically the best fit, we use it instead of building our own.

The providers Nokkela-IT-Concept GmbH sources services from operate their own data centres in Germany: DTS, Hetzner and q.beyond. Palo Alto Networks and Thomas-Krenn supply products rather than hosting – firewalls and servers that run in racks operated either by the client or by us in Europe. Data processed on that infrastructure is handled to GDPR standard. Where a component would move data outside Europe, we say so before it is used.