NEW YORK, NY, June 22, 2026 – Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System (OS) as the foundational data layer for its AI cloud infrastructure under a partnership with VAST Data. The deployment will support government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
The deployment is designed for sovereign AI workloads by keeping sensitive workloads, intellectual property, and data onshore while providing storage infrastructure for AI training, inference, and agentic AI systems.
Based on a benchmark of about 6PB of AI storage per 1,000 GPUs for large-scale workloads, the 600PB VAST deployment corresponds to the data requirements of about 100,000 GPUs. Sharon AI said the deployment will be part of its AI Cloud platform for sovereign AI services in Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Data location, movement, and access controls are key requirements in sovereign and regulated environments. The VAST AI OS uses VAST Data’s DASE architecture, a parallel system designed to reduce data bottlenecks. The platform also provides a single global namespace, allowing processors to access shared data without copying or moving data sets. Built-in multi-tenancy supports tenant isolation, performance SLAs, and separate controls for customers using shared infrastructure.
“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. “Standardizing 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.”
Source: Sharon AI
About Sharon AI
Sharon AI is a high-performance computing company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company provides cloud GPU services, AI computing infrastructure, and data storage systems for organizations that run compute-heavy workloads. Sharon AI offers virtual machines, GPU-as-a-service options, and cloud capacity designed for AI training, machine learning development, and high-performance computing tasks. The company supports customers that work with generative AI, large-language models, and scientific or engineering simulations. Sharon AI serves businesses, research institutions, and government agencies that require flexible access to GPU clusters and sovereign cloud environments. The company designs its systems to support resource-intensive projects and to handle datasets in production or research settings. Sharon AI operates its services through an Australian data center and maintains infrastructure to support high-bandwidth networking, distributed training, and data lifecycle management. The company also provides workload management tools that help users deploy applications, manage storage, and allocate GPU resources for specific tasks.
About VAST Data
VAST Data develops software for organizations that store, manage and process large data sets. Its products include VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase, VAST DataEngine and VAST DataSpace. The software supports file and object storage, database services, data processing and access across multiple sites. VAST Data serves customers in AI, cloud services, financial services, government, research, media and enterprise IT. VAST Data was founded in 2016 and operates as a remote-first company. Its headquarters city is New York City, NY. VAST Data has about 1,200 global employees. Its software runs in customer data centers, cloud environments and GPU computing systems.