DigitalOcean, known for its comprehensive agentic cloud platform, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Persistent Systems, a global leader in digital engineering and enterprise modernization. This collaboration, valued at an eight-figure average annual commitment, aims to make artificial intelligence more affordable, scalable, and secure for digital-native enterprises and developers worldwide. By combining infrastructure innovation with deep AI engineering expertise, the partnership seeks to remove long-standing barriers to enterprise-grade AI adoption.
Through this agreement, Persistent has chosen DigitalOcean as its exclusive cloud and AI infrastructure provider for SASVA, its AI-powered platform designed to unify code, documentation, architecture, and executive summaries across diverse workflows. Notably, SASVA runs its AI workloads and customer deployments on DigitalOcean Gradient AI Agentic Cloud, ensuring reliability while maintaining cost efficiency. In addition, Persistent is leveraging DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI Platform to support the full agent development lifecycle, along with high-performance GPUs from Gradient AI Infrastructure offerings.
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As enterprises accelerate their AI strategies, they increasingly encounter challenges such as escalating GPU costs, fragmented agent development ecosystems, and heightened security and compliance requirements. Against this backdrop, the partnership between DigitalOcean and Persistent directly addresses these concerns. By integrating Persistent’s AI platform innovation with DigitalOcean’s robust agentic cloud and AI infrastructure, both companies aim to simplify how organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions. Importantly, the two organizations have committed to running SASVA and inference workloads on Gradient AI Agentic Cloud over multiple years, reinforcing their focus on secure, enterprise-ready, and cost-effective AI deployments.
Moreover, by extending these capabilities through DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud, Persistent plans to help clients achieve measurable business outcomes from AI adoption. This approach is expected to reduce AI infrastructure and operational costs by more than 50%, allowing organizations to scale faster while maintaining predictable economics. At the same time, Persistent will use SASVA and its engineering expertise to develop modern AI solutions that enhance the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of DigitalOcean’s next-generation AI cloud offerings.
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This partnership also highlights a broader trend in the technology services industry, where leading enterprises are selecting DigitalOcean to power next-generation AI workloads. Persistent’s decision to adopt Gradient AI Agentic Cloud reflects a growing demand for infrastructure that balances performance, transparency, and cost predictability. Additionally, the managed and ready-to-use environments provided through SASVA enable seamless scaling as AI technologies evolve, while offering continuous access to a wide range of AI models, frameworks, and accelerators.
Paddy Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalOcean, notes, “DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud delivers the infrastructure, platform, and services that make AI accessible, scalable, and cost-effective. Partnering with Persistent expands these capabilities to more enterprise use cases by integrating our AI foundation with SASVA’s deterministic engineering. Together, we are accelerating the use of AI solutions at scale.”
Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent Systems, said, “As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to embedding it across their core operations, success will hinge on how effectively they scale with speed, trust and measurable impact. Our partnership with Digital Ocean exemplifies this shift, combining our AI engineering expertise and SASVA platform with Digital Ocean’s agentic cloud to help clients operationalize AI with confidence. Together, we are simplifying how organizations build, deploy and scale AI, strengthening the foundation of the next wave of intelligent, platform-driven innovation.”
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