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Self-hosted / open sourceVirtualisation & ContainersHeadquarters: CH

Virtuozzo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Virtuozzo develops virtualization and cloud infrastructure software for cloud, managed-service and hosting providers. Its products include Virtuozzo Infrastructure, an OpenStack-based cloud platform; Virtuozzo Application Management, a platform-as-a-service with DevOps tooling; Virtuozzo Storage for software-defined storage; and Virtuozzo Server for selling VPS and shared hosting. The company also operates Virtuozzo Cloud, a managed multi-tenant cloud platform. Providers install the software on their own hardware, while the managed variant is run by Virtuozzo.

Virtuozzo is a privately held company headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, independent since its December 2015 spin-off from Parallels. Switzerland is outside the EU but within EFTA. The company maintains open-source projects such as OpenVZ, VzLinux and CRIU, while the commercial platform itself is licensed software. Where data resides is decided by the provider running the software; for Virtuozzo Cloud, the sources consulted name no regions.

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Sovereignty score
80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • 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-680
    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 September 20, 2026
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryVirtualisation & Containers
TypeProduct
Websitevirtuozzo.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 Virtuozzo

The European alternatives to Virtuozzo 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 Virtuozzo

Virtuozzo is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Virtuozzo 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.

Virtuozzo 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 Virtuozzo 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 Virtuozzo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Virtuozzo include APPUiO (VSHN), Gardener and Giant Swarm. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Virtuozzo?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Virtuozzo include Gardener, Giant Swarm, Harvester, IncludeOS, K3s, Kamaji and Kubermatic. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Virtuozzo GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Virtuozzo is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Virtuozzo 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 September 20, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 20, 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Supported versions
virtuozzo.com/server-docs/product-lifecycle-policy/

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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