Across Europe, organizations are modernizing analytics and AI while tightening requirements around data control, jurisdiction, and operational accountability. What customers are increasingly seeking is straightforward: the flexibility of open architectures, the speed needed for modern workloads, and the confidence that their service operations, support, and contracting align with European expectations.
Today, I’m excited to share that STACKIT Dremio is now in Public Preview, with General Availability planned for Summer 2026.
STACKIT is the cloud digital department of the Schwarz Group, a global leader that built STACKIT to power mission-critical operations at massive scale.
What makes this partnership special is how grounded it is in real production demands. At Schwarz and STACKIT, capabilities are tested internally before they are offered externally.
A strong example is Schwarz Logistics’ LogOps modernization, moving to a STACKIT Dremio and achieving 40% lower TCO and 4x faster time to insight vs their prior cloud provider solution.
Explore this interactive demo and see how Dremio's Intelligent Lakehouse enables Agentic AI
STACKIT and Dremio come together around what EU customers consistently prioritize: open standards, interoperability, and an EU-operated service experience that supports sovereignty and freedom of choice.
Customer freedom of choice
Customers can choose an EU-operated cloud and service experience while still building on open standards. That combination helps preserve long-term flexibility in how they evolve their lakehouse, connect tools, and adopt new workloads over time.
Decreased regulatory risk
For many organizations, sovereignty requirements translate into practical risk management. Clear operational ownership and jurisdictional alignment can reduce uncertainty when meeting internal governance expectations and external obligations.
Operated completely by STACKIT
STACKIT Dremio is designed for an EU-centric operational model, including the enterprise-grade practices customers care about for production usage such as security operations and resiliency.
Dremio provides an Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris based lakehouse built for enterprise grade workloads at massive scale. Delivering market leading price/performance on STACKIT’s hyperscale foundation.
1) Open lakehouse foundation with Apache Iceberg
Iceberg is becoming the default table format for modern lakehouses because it enables multiple tools and engines to access the same data. STACKIT Dremio is built on open standards, including Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow, and Apache Polaris.
2) A Polaris-based catalog that supports interoperability
A catalog is where governance, discovery, and consistent definitions come together. By aligning on a Polaris-based approach, the goal is to make it easier for customers to standardize access patterns across engines and teams, while keeping Iceberg at the center.
3) Native integration into the STACKIT ecosystem
This is not a generic deployment. The service is designed to be part of the STACKIT platform experience, supporting customers who want to build analytics and agentic AI on STACKIT’s EU-operated cloud foundation.
Getting started
Public Preview is available now, and the service is free of charge for customers until GA.
If your organization is building analytics and AI with open standards and wants an EU-operated service experience, STACKIT Dremio is worth a serious look. We are excited about what EU customers can build when sovereignty, interoperability, and performance reinforce each other.
Deploy agentic analytics directly on Apache Iceberg data with no pipelines and no added overhead.
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