SharonAI Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Sharon AI”), a prominent Australian Neocloud provider, has announced a strategic investment and partnership with Digital Alpha, a digital infrastructure investment firm known for building advanced digital platforms through its exclusive technology partnership with Cisco. This move marks a significant step forward for the expansion of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence infrastructure in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Through this equity and revenue-sharing investment, Sharon AI plans to substantially grow its AI and high-performance cloud computing footprint. As a result, the company will be better positioned to meet increasing customer demand for NVIDIA-accelerated computing and Cisco networking technologies. These capabilities are particularly critical for research institutions, government bodies, and enterprise customers that require secure, scalable, and high-performance AI environments.
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Notably, Sharon AI is positioning itself as a leader in the Australian enterprise AI market by enabling advanced use cases such as real-time inference and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). With AI adoption accelerating across industries, organizations are actively seeking infrastructure partners capable of supporting complex workloads at scale.
“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.”
At the core of Sharon AI’s offering is an enterprise-grade high-performance computing (HPC) platform purpose-built for AI workloads. These include large language model training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference. In addition, the Sharon AI Cloud features a proprietary orchestration and automation layer that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of GPU-powered infrastructure, even for the most demanding AI use cases.
James Manning, Co-Founder and Chairman of Sharon AI, emphasized the strategic importance of the collaboration, stating, “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.”
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Furthermore, the three-way partnership between Sharon AI, Digital Alpha, and Cisco is expected to unlock multiple growth initiatives. These include faster AI infrastructure rollouts, deeper regional expansion, and full-stack integration across compute, networking, and storage. Together, these capabilities are designed to meet the evolving needs of enterprise, research, and government customers seeking reliable and sovereign AI platforms.
“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.”
Overall, this collaboration underscores Digital Alpha’s continued focus on investing in next-generation AI infrastructure. Leveraging its deep strategic relationship with Cisco and prior investments in companies such as Massed Compute, PacketFabric, and Cloudian, Digital Alpha aims to support scalable, enterprise-ready AI compute, networking, and data platforms that can drive long-term digital transformation.
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