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SharonAI Holdings has expanded its partnership with VAST Data. Under the agreement, Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure.
The deployment establishes the VAST AI Operating System as the data layer for Sharon AI's platform. The infrastructure serves government agencies, enterprises, research institutions, and AI-focused organisations across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
The deployment supports Sharon AI's sovereign AI infrastructure strategy, enabling data, intellectual property, and other information to remain within Australia while providing computing resources for AI workloads.
The 600PB VAST AI OS deployment provides capabilities including concurrent throughput for AI training and inference workloads, multi-tenancy with customer isolation and service-level agreements (SLAs), resilience features, and integrated data services such as KV cache optimisation and observability. These features are designed to support the expansion of GPU capacity while managing data traffic demands and governance requirements.
According to benchmark data, approximately 6PB of optimised AI storage is required per 1,000 GPUs for large-scale AI operations. Based on this estimate, the deployment could support the data requirements of approximately 100,000 GPUs. The expansion increases the scale of Sharon AI's sovereign AI cloud infrastructure in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
For regulated environments, data location and access controls are important operational requirements. VAST AI OS uses a Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture, a distributed system architecture designed to reduce traditional infrastructure bottlenecks. The platform provides a single global namespace that enables data access across processors without requiring data movement between systems. Its multi-tenancy capabilities provide customer isolation and support performance SLAs for multiple tenants operating on the same cloud platform.
“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. “Standardising 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.”
“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 two companies plan to continue their engineering collaboration as Sharon AI expands its customer base and infrastructure capabilities.
As the partnership develops, Sharon AI will continue expanding its AI infrastructure offerings across the region, with a focus on supporting sovereign data and AI workloads.
