SharonAI Holdings Inc., a leading Australian Neocloud, and VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership under which Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure. The commitment makes the VAST AI Operating System the foundational data layer for Sharon AI's sovereign AI infrastructure, serving government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Sharon AI deploys 600PB of VAST AI Operating System across AI cloud infrastructure.
600PB deployment supports data needs equivalent to ~100,000 GPUs (benchmark of ~6PB per 1,000 GPUs).
VAST DASE architecture creates parallel distributed system with single global namespace.
Built-in multi-tenancy delivers strong isolation and guaranteed performance SLAs.
Sharon AI is a certified NVIDIA Cloud Partner with existing infrastructure in Australian data centers.
Partnership serves government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers.
This deployment represents one of the largest and most advanced sovereign AI data foundations in the Asia-Pacific region. It positions Sharon AI at the forefront of Australia's push to build independent, high-performance AI capability – keeping the nation's most sensitive workloads, intellectual property, and strategic data firmly onshore while delivering the raw power needed for next-generation training, inference, and agentic AI systems.
Using a proven benchmark of approximately 6PB of optimized AI storage per 1,000 GPUs for demanding large-scale workloads, the new 600PB VAST deployment provides the scalable data backbone equivalent to supporting the data needs of ~100,000 GPUs. This is a transformative leap that cements Sharon AI's AI Cloud platform as one of the most substantial sovereign AI clouds in Australia and Asia-Pacific.
"Our customers refuse to choose between keeping their data sovereign and running AI at full speed – they need both at the highest level," said James Manning, Co-Founder and CEO of Sharon AI. "Standardizing on the VAST AI Operating System at this unprecedented 600PB scale gives us exactly that: a rock-solid, high-performance foundation we can scale confidently as demand for sovereign AI across Australia and Asia-Pacific accelerates. This is how we build Australia's AI future – powerful, secure, and proudly local."
For sovereign and regulated environments, control over data location, movement, and access is non-negotiable – and performance cannot be sacrificed. The VAST AI OS was engineered precisely for this challenge. Its breakthrough DASE architecture creates a true parallel distributed system that eliminates traditional bottlenecks. A single global namespace means every processor can reach all data instantly, without copying or moving petabytes around. Built-in multi-tenancy delivers strong isolation, guaranteed performance SLAs, and separate controls per customer – ideal for a cloud provider serving multiple sovereign tenants on shared infrastructure.
"Every breakthrough Sharon AI enables – in research, medicine, industry, or national capability – runs on data, and it only moves as fast and safely as the foundation beneath it," said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. "As the data foundation for Sharon AI's sovereign cloud, we are proud to partner with them to support Australia's hardest and most strategic AI ambitions. The VAST AI OS turns massive data estates into real-time intelligence assets, all while respecting sovereign boundaries. This is the future of AI infrastructure."
The companies will continue close engineering collaboration to optimize the platform as Sharon AI's customer workloads and AI factory ambitions scale rapidly.
About Sharon AI
SharonAI Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Sharon AI"), a leading Australian Neocloud, is a High-Performance Computing company focused on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud GPU/CPU Compute Infrastructure. Our AI Cloud platform and compute infrastructure is accelerating the build of AI factories and sovereign AI solutions, powering the next wave of accelerated computing adoption.
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST's breakthrough DASE architecture – the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI.
