Sharon AI Collaborates with VAST Data on the Launch of DataEnclave, Bringing Leading AI Models to Customer Controlled Infrastructure
Sharon AI will integrate VAST DataEnclave to let regulated customers run onshore, confidential AI workloads while retaining control of their data and model keys.
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Sharon AI (SHAZ) is collaborating with VAST Data to offer VAST DataEnclave confidential AI capabilities on its AI Factory platform across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Under this collaboration, Sharon AI customers can run leading AI models onshore within hardware-isolated secure runtimes using cryptographic attestation, designed so that neither data nor model weights are exposed to infrastructure operators. VAST DataEnclave supports regulated and air-gapped environments, uses CPU trusted execution and NVIDIA Confidential Compute GPUs, and records attestation, key release and enclave lifecycle events in a tamper-proof audit trail. Customers and model builders keep independent control of encryption keys via Bring Your Own KMS integrations.
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- Collaboration adds VAST DataEnclave confidential AI to Sharon AI’s AI Factory platform
- Enables onshore AI for regulated customers in Australia and Asia-Pacific, including air-gapped deployments
- Customers and model builders retain independent control of encryption keys via Bring Your Own KMS integrations
- Tamper-proof audit trail logs every attestation, key release and enclave lifecycle action for greater transparency
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Under the collaboration, Sharon AI will offer VAST DataEnclave as part of its AI Factory platform, giving customers a hardware-isolated secure runtime and cryptographic attestation service for running leading AI models onshore which is not expected to expose data or model weights. VAST's confidential AI capability is designed to let regulated organizations run advanced AI models onshore in
For organizations in highly regulated industries, some of the highest-value AI opportunities have remained out of reach because sensitive data cannot leave controlled environments, while model builders have been unable to distribute proprietary models into infrastructure they do not trust. VAST DataEnclave is designed to resolve that impasse: sensitive assets are decrypted and loaded into a secure enclave only after the runtime environment and its enforced policy have been cryptographically verified, and infrastructure operators, including Sharon AI, cannot access customer data or model weights while they are being processed.
The collaboration is expected to significantly expand the number of leading AI models available to Sharon AI customers for mission-critical work where cloud-hosted services are not an option. Customers can now run leading AI models onshore while maintaining control over cost, performance, policy management and security, addressing a longstanding barrier for banks, government agencies and other regulated organizations across the region.
"As a trusted AI infrastructure provider, Sharon AI exists to make secure, scalable and sovereign AI compute available to every organization that needs it," said James Manning, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sharon AI.
"Our customers across
VAST DataEnclave establishes a secure container runtime and attestation service directly within the VAST AI Operating System. Proprietary models execute inside confidential virtual machines built on CPU-level trusted execution environments, with NVIDIA GPUs operating in Confidential Compute mode, so guest memory, GPU memory and interconnect traffic all remain encrypted throughout processing.
Sharon AI customers and model builders retain independent control over their respective encryption keys through Bring Your Own KMS integrations, so customer data keys stay within the customer's trust domain and model keys remain within the model builder's trust domain at all times. Deployments can run connected, through the DataEnclave attestation service built on the open CNCF Trustee stack, or fully air-gapped, with VAST and Fortanix enabling on-premises attestation and key brokering for customers who cannot connect to external services.
Every attestation event, key release and enclave lifecycle action is recorded in a tamper-proof, queryable audit trail, giving Sharon AI customers visibility into what ran, where and under what verified policy, and is designed to avoid exposing the underlying data or model weights.
"The next phase of sovereign AI requires infrastructure that both enterprises and model builders can trust without having to trust the infrastructure operator itself," said Sunil Chavan, Vice President, APJ at VAST Data. "Sharon AI is building exactly the kind of regional AI infrastructure where VAST DataEnclave may be able to change what's possible, giving customers across
The collaboration should reinforce Sharon AI's role as a trusted AI infrastructure partner for regulated industries, equipped to deliver gigawatt scale AI compute securely and with sovereignty at its core, and extending its sovereign AI Factory platform to support attested, confidential AI workloads alongside its existing security, governance and compliance capabilities.
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About Sharon AI
Sharon AI (NASDAQ: SHAZ) is a leading Australian Neocloud delivering trusted sovereign AI infrastructure. Through its AI Factory platform and world-class ecosystem of technology and co-location partners, Sharon AI expands access to the scalable capabilities that organizations need to build, train and run AI, from model training through to inference and agentic AI. Serving customers globally, Sharon AI helps organizations move faster from AI potential to measurable value. For more information, visit www.sharonai.com.
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VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST's breakthrough DASE architecture – the world's first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI.
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How does VAST DataEnclave protect customer data and model weights on Sharon AI’s platform?
VAST DataEnclave establishes a secure container runtime inside the VAST AI Operating System, using CPU-level trusted execution environments and NVIDIA GPUs operating in Confidential Compute mode. Guest memory, GPU memory and interconnect traffic remain encrypted, and sensitive assets are decrypted only after the runtime and its policy are cryptographically verified. Sharon AI and other infrastructure operators are not expected to access customer data or model weights while processing.
Can Sharon AI customers use VAST DataEnclave in fully disconnected or air-gapped environments?
Yes. Deployments can run connected through the DataEnclave attestation service built on the open CNCF Trustee stack, or fully air-gapped. For air-gapped scenarios, VAST and Fortanix enable on-premises attestation and key brokering for customers that cannot connect to external services.
Who controls the encryption keys in this Sharon AI and VAST Data collaboration?
Sharon AI customers and model builders retain independent control over their own encryption keys through Bring Your Own KMS integrations. Customer data keys stay within the customer’s trust domain, and model keys remain within the model builder’s trust domain at all times.
What visibility do Sharon AI customers get into confidential workloads running with VAST DataEnclave?
Every attestation event, key release and enclave lifecycle action is recorded in a tamper-proof, queryable audit trail. This gives Sharon AI customers visibility into what ran, where it ran and under which verified policy, while aiming to avoid exposing underlying data or model weights.