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StorPool: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

StorPool develops software-defined block storage for those building public or private clouds, such as hosting providers, service providers and enterprises. The software pools the capacity of local NVMe, SSD and HDD devices in standard GNU/Linux servers into a single shared storage pool, using a distributed, shared-nothing architecture. Integrations exist with OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula, Kubernetes and Proxmox VE, among others. Besides self-managed use, the website describes a fully managed service (STaaS) in which StorPool's own team monitors and maintains the storage.

StorPool has an office in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as an office in Wilmington, Delaware (USA), listed under the name StorPool Storage Inc. The website names no owner or parent company. The software is proprietary, not open source. Because the software runs on your own servers, you decide where the data is located, for example in a European data centre. With the managed service, it is worth establishing where the storage is located and which entity is the contracting party.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersBG (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryStorage & Backup
TypeProduct
Websitestorpool.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to StorPool

The European alternatives to StorPool come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 StorPool

StorPool is headquartered in BG and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so StorPool scores best on data residency.

StorPool is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs StorPool 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 StorPool?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to StorPool 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 StorPool?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to StorPool 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 StorPool GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

StorPool is headquartered in BG (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes StorPool an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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