NetApp and Emma Technologies Collaborate to Deliver Sovereign AI to European Enterprises

NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, announced its strategic collaboration with Luxembourg-based Emma Technologies (emma) to jointly deliver sovereign AI for European organizations.The joint solution brings together a single sovereign AI stack: NetApp provides the data layer, while emma provides GPU capacity in its own European datacenters and the cloud operations platform for distributed infrastructure.

“The conversation with European customers has changed. They no longer ask whether to run AI, but where they can run it without losing control of their data,” said Dmitry Panenkov, founder and CEO, emma. “With NetApp, we can give them a clear answer.”

Sovereignty and Freedom of Choice for Enterprise AI
European organizations must run high-performance, data-intensive AI workloads while meeting stringent data sovereignty goals. emma’s cloud-agnostic platform addresses this challenge, giving enterprises the freedom to deploy anywhere – across hyperscaler cloud providers, emma’s European datacenters, or private infrastructure – without sacrificing control or performance.

In the joint offering, the NetApp Platform, including high-performance AI storage powered by NetApp ONTAP software, delivers both file and object storage within a single, unified architecture which is critical for emma’s multi-tenant AI environment. NetApp systems deliver the power, scalability, cyber resilience, and data protection needed for a future-proof foundation, while NetApp’s ability to deliver unified storage across hybrid multicloud environments enables true workload portability in full alignment with emma’s “deploy anywhere” strategy.

“European enterprises should never have to choose between AI innovation and data sovereignty,” said Willem Hendrickx, SVP & GM, EMEA & LATAM. NetApp. “emma is building exactly the kind of next-generation sovereign cloud infrastructure that the European market needs. With the NetApp Platform at its core, we are helping emma build the Intelligent Data Infrastructure it needs to make its vision a reality.”