Sharon AI sought a partnership with a leading organization in the enterprise market to deliver a fully integrated, sovereign-ready AI infrastructure stack.
Delivering Sovereign AI infrastructure
Sharon AI
Sharon AI is a leading Australian neocloud, delivering sovereign cloud infrastructure for AI, machine learning, and HPC workloads to enterprise, AI natives, hyperscalers, government, and research customers.
Challenge
As a fast-growing AI infrastructure provider, Sharon AI faced a hyper-competitive market:
- Establish the enterprise-market credibility and capital investment needed to grow rapidly and break into Australian and APAC accounts
- Build a 1,024-GPU cluster capable of supporting hyperscale and enterprise AI workloads with ultra-low latency and high reliability
- Accelerate AI fabric deployment, replacing slow manual design, ordering, and implementation cycles with a repeatable, predictable workflow
Solution
Sharon AI built Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, combining Cisco networking, compute, security, observability, and management with NVIDIA GPUs, VAST Data storage and Sharon AI’s orchestration and execution expertise:
- Cisco UCS C880A servers with NVIDIA B300 GPUs deliver the accelerated compute performance essential for AI training, real-time inference, and high-performance computing workloads.
- Cisco Intersight provides unified, cloud-native lifecycle management, automation, and visibility across compute infrastructure from core data centers to the distributed edge.
- Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric delivers the Cisco Nexus One cloud operating model with intelligent design, automated validation, and monitoring for streamlined operations and rapid time to value.
- Cisco AI Defense provides end-to-end AI security, discovering AI workloads, validating models against adversarial threats, and protecting AI applications at runtime.
- Rafay provides platform integration with multi-tenant GPU orchestration and a customer self-service portal.
- VAST Data delivers a unified, high-performance storage platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance computing workloads at petabyte scale.
Outcomes
Established global leadership in sovereign AI
By deploying the first Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA in Australia, Sharon AI became the world’s first fully Cisco-powered neocloud.
Unlocked enterprise revenue pipeline
Go-to-market partnership with Cisco gave Sharon AI the credibility to break into Australian and APAC enterprise markets.
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