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Lenovo has announced its role in delivering a 1,000-GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster for leading Australian Neocloud Sharon AI, at NEXTDC’ s Tier IV M3 data centre in Melbourne. This is Lenovo’ s largest-ever TruScale Infrastructure-asa-Service( IaaS) engagement, marking a significant step in the expansion of sovereign AI infrastructure in Australia.
The expected deployment of the 1000-GPU cluster will provide Australian and wider APAC enterprises, government organisations and research
Lenovo supports major sovereign AI initiative with Melbourne deployment
institutions access to world-class accelerated computing.
“ Australia is well poised to be a global leader in AI and Lenovo is proud to be enabling this next phase of sovereign AI capability,” said Sumir Bhatia,
President, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Asia Pacific.“ By expanding our relationship with Sharon AI, we’ re helping Australian organisations access cuttingedge AI compute on their own terms, securely and at scale.”
James Manning, CEO & Co-founder, Sharon AI, added:“ This deployment marks a major milestone for sovereign AI capability in Australia. In partnership with Lenovo, we are bringing one of the region’ s most advanced NVIDIA Blackwell GPU clusters online in Melbourne, giving Australian enterprises, government and researchers access to world-class AI infrastructure on home soil. Beyond scale, this is about national capability, data sovereignty and accelerating innovation locally, while positioning Australia as a serious contender in the global AI economy.”
Yubico accelerates APAC growth with opening of Singapore office
Yubico, a cybersecurity company, inventor of FIDO passkeys and creator of the YubiKey, the most secure passkey, has announced the opening of its third global headquarters in Singapore. This announcement reinforces Yubico’ s long-term commitment to the Asia Pacific region and builds on its role in advancing open authentication standards, while shaping a safer digital world for all. The new office complements Yubico’ s existing global headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden and Santa Clara, USA, reflecting its strategy to serve a growing international user base by helping customers deploy YubiKeys at scale to adapt to a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape. establishing trust and preserving privacy. Yubico solutions offer organisations of all sizes the ability to leverage the power of AI securely, effectively using the YubiKey as the hardware root of trust to authorise AI delegations with a human touch. This office allows the company to scale its mission of keeping digital identities, both humans and agents, secure across the region.
“ As the digital economy grows, there’ s a decisive shift across Asia Pacific, where organisations are moving beyond legacy Multi- Factor Authentication to meet rigorous new national regulations for identity protection,” said Jerrod Chong, Acting CEO at Yubico, a Singaporean.“ The expansion of Yubico opening its third headquarters is more than just a new office; the company is committed to supporting the enterprises and public sector leaders who are defining the future of digital trust.”
In a fast-emerging era shaped by AI, autonomous agents and sophisticated cyber threats are accelerating at an unprecedented scale. The need for securing AI with‘ humanin-the-loop’ has never been so urgent and is at the centre of
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