SharonAI Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Sharon AI”), a leading Australian Neocloud , announced a strategic investment partnership with Digital Alpha, a digital infrastructure investment firm focused on building premium digital platforms through an exclusive technology partnership with Cisco.
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Sharon AI is poised to lead the Australian enterprise AI space, delivering critical use cases like inference and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
The equity and revenue share investment will enable Sharon AI to significantly expand its AI and high-performance cloud compute infrastructure footprint, as well as support customer demand for NVIDIA accelerated computing and Cisco networking technology in Australia and Asia Pacific for research, government, and enterprise customers.
“Sharon AI represents the next generation of cloud infrastructure providers delivering AI workloads and high-performance compute to enterprise and public sector customers,” said Rick Shrotri, Managing Partner at Digital Alpha. “We are excited to partner with the Sharon AI team to scale the Company across the Australia and Asia-Pacific region.”
Sharon AI provides an enterprise-grade high-performance computing (“HPC”) infrastructure platform specifically engineered for AI workloads, including large language model training, fine-tuning, and real-time inference. The Sharon AI Cloud is a proprietary orchestration and automation platform designed to simplify the deployment and management of high-performance GPU resources for complex workloads.
James Manning, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sharon AI, said, “This partnership with Digital Alpha and Cisco enables us to further accelerate customer deployments and expand our cloud infrastructure for enterprise AI and high-performance compute in Australia and Asia Pacific.”
The three-way partnership between Cisco, Digital Alpha, and Sharon AI is expected to support several growth initiatives including expanded and accelerated AI infrastructure deployments in Australia and Asia Pacific, as well as full stack compute, network and storage integration to meet the needs of research, enterprise, and government customers.
“Sharon AI is poised to lead the Australian enterprise AI space, delivering critical use cases like inference and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Powered by Cisco’s UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric switching, security, and observability stack, Sharon AI provides a sovereign, high-performance infrastructure for Australian businesses,” said Will Eatherton, SVP, Head of Networking Engineering, Cisco. “Cisco is thrilled to partner with Sharon AI to bring these advanced AI platforms to market.”
The collaboration reflects Digital Alpha’s focus on investing in next-generation AI infrastructure platforms, informed by its strategic relationship with Cisco and its investment experience across portfolio companies including Massed Compute, PacketFabric, and Cloudian, in support of scalable, enterprise-grade AI compute, networking, and data infrastructure.
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