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HPE StoreOnce: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

HPE StoreOnce is a family of deduplicating backup target systems from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They are available as physical appliances and as StoreOnce VSA, a virtual appliance for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V with the same feature set. Organisations use StoreOnce as a storage target for backup software, with Catalyst integration, deduplication-optimised replication between sites, and encryption of data at rest and in flight. The optional Cloud Bank Storage writes copies to object storage in a public or private cloud. The software runs on the customer's own infrastructure.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a publicly listed US company headquartered in Spring, Texas, with no majority shareholder. Because StoreOnce runs on-premises, backup data stays on systems under the customer's control and the vendor is not a processor of that data. Organisations that use Cloud Bank Storage decide themselves in which region and with which provider the object storage sits. Remote management, support and licensing services still involve a US supplier and should be assessed.

Sovereignty score
55 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 13, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to HPE StoreOnce

The European alternatives to HPE StoreOnce come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with HPE StoreOnce

HPE StoreOnce is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

HPE StoreOnce runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

HPE StoreOnce is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs HPE StoreOnce together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to HPE StoreOnce?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to HPE StoreOnce include Acronis, Atempo and Bacula Systems. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to HPE StoreOnce?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to HPE StoreOnce include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is HPE StoreOnce GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

HPE StoreOnce is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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