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A look behind the scenes at the KRZN InnoLab: Why the combination of openDesk standards, strong partnerships, and local line-of-business application integration is the key to digital sovereignty for our municipalities. The digital sovereignty of public administration is not a theoretical luxury problem, but a tangible strategic necessity. For the Municipal Data Processing Centre Niederrhein [...]

A social services organization in Tyrol, 24 locations, and the conviction that our data belongs in our own network: Here's how we put that principle into practice with Nubus and Ubuntu. Since 2014, I have been heading the IT department at pro mente tirol, a non-profit organization providing social psychiatric services for people with mental [...]

If you know Univention, you know the App Center. For years, it has been the go-to place for selecting and installing applications on Nubus for virtual machines (UCS). It has served its purpose well and that is exactly the point: our integration ecosystem has long outgrown installable apps. Identity connectors, groupware integrations, ISV applications via [...]

The first alpha release of UCS 5.3 is now available, making the next version of the operating environment for Nubus tangible. The focus of this release is on updating the Debian base. At the same time, an important organizational milestone is being prepared: the entry into force of the separate maintenance cycles for Nubus and [...]

The latest release of Nubus for Kubernetes puts operational stability front and center: The Provisioning Service now delivers changes from the directory service to downstream systems significantly faster. Many liveness and readiness probes have been reworked so that Kubernetes can assess the state of components more accurately. Additionally, the portal now prevents content from being [...]

With UCS 5.3, we are introducing an important structural change to our maintenance concept: We are following our product structure and splitting the previously shared maintenance commitment for the combination of Nubus as an Identity & Access Management solution (IAM) and UCS as the operating environment into two independent commitments. What may initially sound like [...]

The latest patch-level release of Univention Corporate Server bundles all new features and improvements from the past three months onto new installation media. UCS 5.2-6 brings highlights from Univention Nubus such as a new metrics endpoint for improved observability and technical details for directory objects in the Management UI and additions to the mail stack [...]

Yesterday, the US government ordered Anthropic to stop providing its latest AI models – Mythos 5 and Fable 5 – to people without US citizenship. Anthropic then blocked access completely. The explanation: at present, the company cannot reliably determine which users hold which citizenship. Let that sink in for a moment. Access to a key [...]

The debate around Digital Sovereignty is often framed as a contest between the United States and Europe, yet the underlying issue resonates far beyond these regions. Around the world, countries seek measurable control over government IT systems and data infrastructures while safeguarding citizens’ privacy and civil society. Their shared goal is to reclaim autonomy in [...]

Europe is engaged in an intensive debate about digital sovereignty and technological dependencies. Yet one of the most powerful instruments is already on the table: public procurement. New figures show just how urgent this issue has become. The lever is enormous – and largely unused Public IT spending in Europe is probably already above €100 [...]