German Edge Cloud (GEC; symbolic image), a company of the Friedhelm Loh Group, specializes in innovative edge and cloud solutions. GEC's solutions make data available quickly, easily and securely in networked environments, support process optimization in the manufacturing industry, for example, via data analytics and guarantee customers full data sovereignty when connected to the public or private cloud. GEC is a developer and service integrator for turnkey solutions and offers both its own and industry-specific systems. The company is already using its solutions in the Industry 4.0 plant of its sister company Rittal in Haiger. German Edge Cloud integrates and operates hybrid private edge cloud infrastructures ranging from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to industry-specific applications in the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. As a co-founder of the Gaia-X Foundation, German Edge Cloud pursues the goal of interoperable platform solutions with lock-in minimization from the customer's perspective. German Edge Cloud is part of the owner-managed Friedhelm Loh Group. The group of companies is internationally successful with 12 production sites and 94 subsidiaries. It employs 11,600 people and achieved a turnover of 2.6 billion euros in the 2019 financial year.