Cisco and SharonAI Holdings Inc. and SharonAI Holdings Inc. announced the launch of Australia's first Cisco Secure AI Factory in partnership with NVIDIA. This initiative marks a significant leap forward in providing Australia with secure, scalable and high-performance sovereign AI capabilities with all data and AI processing kept within the country. By delivering robust national digital infrastructure and upholding data sovereignty, the Cisco Secure AI Factorypowers an AI-enabled economy, supporting the development, adoption, and responsible use of AI in alignment with Australia's new National AI Plan.
Sharon AI will offer a variety of solutions tailored to different customer needs and industries. Customers will also have access to a sandbox environment to experiment with proof-of-concepts. At the foundation of these offers is the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, powered by: Cisco's UCS servers, together with Cisco security and networking portfolio delivering accelerated AI capabilities, and Nexus Hyperfabric as part of the Nexus One unified management plane.
1024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, delivering breakthrough performance and flexibility for complex AI and machine learning tasks. VAST Data's cutting-edge storage systems provide the fast, reliable, and scalable data access to support demanding AI workloads.
