Parent company Lidl starts offering cloud services to companies and governments

Schwarz Gruppe, the parent company of Lidl, among others, has started offering various cloud services to companies and governments. For example, Stackit allows customers to store backups on the cloud servers or rent network security.

All servers from stackit are located in Germany and they say they meet ‘the highest European safety standards’, it writes company in a press release. The service must safeguard the ‘digital sovereignty and competitiveness of’ [de Europese] promote the economy.

Companies and governments can use Stackit’s servers for data protection and cloud computing. In addition, the company offers a package in which the cloud service is adapted to the existing infrastructure of a customer.

Stackit has been in use within the Schwarz Gruppe since 2019 and will eventually have to compete with the cloud services of Amazon, Google and Microsoft, among others. Schwarz Gruppe is the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland. The umbrella retail group is the largest in Europe with a turnover of more than 125 billion euros in 2020.