The Problem
We're simply becoming too dependent on international corporations. We've forgotten how to help ourselves. We need to understand that controlling your supply chain is a good thing.
#weareayedo
Cloud-Native Engineering.
Since 2017, ayedo has been developing container solutions for companies across various industries - from startups to international enterprises. We understand the challenges of digital transformation processes and see ourselves as your strong and reliable partner in digitalization.
Our Core Business
Our core business is operating complex applications. Our mission is to provide our customers with technical advantages at fair prices. Our team has more than 15 years of experience in developing and operating performant and secure systems based on Linux and open source components. Hosting is our specialty, so to speak. When someone asks me what we do, I always answer:
“we are the comprehensive insurance for our customers' software.”
That sounds boring and that's exactly how it should be: uneventful, almost annoyingly reliable, no cause for concern. That's managed hosting as we would want it as end users.
4 Things That Matter to Us
ayedo works on various pillars of digitalization. We strive to accelerate the digitalization of processes in Europe, Germany, and our home, the Saarland region.
Germany, and the Saarland in particular, houses an enormous arsenal of IT infrastructure and IT expertise, largely hidden in the shadow of international hyperscalers and big tech companies. Excellence attracts excellence, which leads to the long-term reduction of infrastructure and expertise in our region. Our goal is to establish digital centers of excellence and competence that know how to use and potentiate the existing infrastructure and expertise - thus contributing to managing structural change.
Our work revolves around these 4 core topics:
Digital Sovereignty
ayedo develops European alternatives to services like Cloudflare, AWS, and Google.
The Problem
We're simply becoming too dependent on international corporations. We've forgotten how to help ourselves. We need to understand that controlling your supply chain is a good thing.
The Reality
Europe has access to endless infrastructure resources but largely uses the services of international corporations. Why? Because the services are better packaged and faster to deploy. Within the framework of European legislation, this leads to numerous conflicts and puts companies in a precarious situation.
Our Answer
It is absolutely possible to process European data on European infrastructure without having to sacrifice advantages or violate laws. As European service providers, we must work closer to our customers' problems instead of arbitrarily copying the hyperscalers' models.
Cybersecurity
ayedo develops solutions that think security from the data center to the end user.
The Problem
Security comes from experience and expertise. We don't even understand the threat but buy off-the-shelf solutions. We need to understand that the biggest risk is ourselves.
The Reality
With more sovereignty comes more responsibility. The risk of becoming a victim of cyber attacks is incredibly high and grows with every year we spend creating rules instead of solutions. Security has many facets and we must consider them all.
Our Answer
As European service providers, we must face the fact that a large part of the risks as well as a large part of the protective mechanisms were not conceived and developed by us. We cannot rely on others to provide our shield but must learn to deal with the attack vectors of modern IT ourselves.
IT Modernization
ayedo develops modern services that meet the basic needs of digital companies.
The Problem
We waste endless opportunities through our fear of new things. And we're being overtaken by our neighbors, whose skilled workers we so desperately need. We need to understand that we're no longer an industrial nation and stop thinking like one.
The Reality
Without functioning IT, you're paralyzed today. And if you look at the IT of an average mid-sized company, you'll find that most organizations are virtually completely paralyzed relative to their possibilities. Every company is now software-dependent.
Our Answer
As European service providers, we owe it to our customers to offer more modern services than "web hosting" or "Microsoft 365 licenses." An emancipated digital company today needs private chats, AI-powered tools, centralized password management, infrastructure for mobile work, and so much more.
Process Digitalization
ayedo develops privacy-compliant and horizontally integrated tools for process automation.
The Problem
Time is money. Instead of improving ourselves, we stick to the familiar and lose both. We need to understand that change is now the only constant.
The Reality
Paper is long outdated, but that's not enough. Countless processes in companies still don't use automation, interfaces, and artificial intelligence. We bind the valuable, creative lifetime of our fellow human beings with dull activities.
Our Answer
As European service providers, it is our task to sensitize our customers to this fact and deliver excellent consulting. This also means looking beyond our own horizons and offering pragmatic solutions instead of building rigid corridors.
We are ...
Specialized
Our focus is on the entire software delivery lifecycle: Development, Operations, and Security. Based on cloud-native methodology with containers and Kubernetes, aligned with BSI standards and compliant with current EU/DE regulations.
Customer-Oriented
Startups, SMEs, and enterprises trust our container solutions. We maintain a partnership-based and solution-oriented business relationship at eye level with all our customers and place particular emphasis on individual and personal support.
Hands-on
We make your problem our problem and roll up our sleeves. This opens up more efficient and sustainable solution paths for almost any challenge - for us and for you. When you work together, you get to know each other best. And that helps us provide you with the best possible service.
Security-Conscious
Thanks to our careful security precautions, our IT infrastructure meets the highest standards. Our systems and thus your data are without exception under ayedo's management; we do not use any offerings from large, especially non-European cloud providers to deliver our services.
Partnership-Oriented
We have a large network of software developers, infrastructure service providers, and technology partners with whom we can offer you numerous services around the topic of software.
Structured
We work according to proven methods and industry standards and place the greatest value on traceable processes and solutions.
Experienced
Our platform team combines more than 15 years of experience in operating critical infrastructure. From this experience, we know that constant training and expanding our horizons is our most important task. Only in this way can we offer technical advantages without being dependent on third-party expertise. We share our experience in the form of numerous open source contributions in the area of Infrastructure as Code.
Passionate
We live to automate ourselves away. As "Operators by heart," we understand all too well the desire for peaceful sleep and the certainty of being well cared for when it comes to operating business-critical applications. Therefore, we dedicate ourselves with passion to modern, well-established technologies that keep the promise of digitalization and make all our everyday lives more productive and efficient.
Vision & Mission
What we stand for and where we're heading
Our Vision
We dream of a modern, fully sovereign hosting platform in the spirit of Plesk and WHMCS but with the feature set and modern paradigms of public cloud platforms.
Our goal: A horizontally integrated ecosystem that enables everyone from freelancers to large corporations to meet their hosting needs in a legally secure and privacy-compliant manner.
The walled gardens of the large cloud providers are increasingly becoming golden cages. We're creating a decentralized, sovereign technology platform – pragmatic enough for exotic infrastructure, yet seamlessly integrable with public cloud resources.
Our Mission
We enable companies of all sizes to efficiently use cloud-native technology.
To do this, we develop an ecosystem of products with which our customers can: - Build their own managed service business - Expand their portfolio with horizontally integrated container and app solutions - Quickly and cost-effectively provide container systems as a service
From solo entrepreneurs to platform teams – we deliver the tools.
Our Identity