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Lucanet establishes presence in Japan
Lucanet, a leading SaaS platform for the office of the CFO, has announced its expansion into Japan. The move marks a significant step in the company’ s international growth strategy and strengthens Lucanet’ s presence in Asia-Pacific alongside its Singapore and China operations. and accounting software environments, Lucanet provides a cloud-based platform that unifies consolidation and planning capabilities. Lucanet’ s software allows its customers to achieve superior time to value via fast and easy implementations and provides the trust layer for AI adoption while remaining compliant.
Lucanet’ s expansion into Japan follows the company’ s growth and momentum driven by continued customer acquisition across all regions, investments in cloud technologies and expansion into new markets as well as development of international growth hubs.
The company is seeing strong adoption of its cloud-native CFO Solution Platform, with existing customers expanding their use across multiple solutions and a growing number of new customers choosing several platform capabilities to automate businesscritical finance, tax and compliance workflows end-to-end.
“ This step is our response to an increasing demand for standardised and easy to use consolidation and planning solutions,” said Elias Apel, CEO of Lucanet.“ We already serve customers in Japan and together with our local partners, we are now committed to bring cloud and AI innovation to the office of the CFO in Japan.”
Japan represents one of the world’ s largest and most sophisticated corporate markets, yet many finance teams still rely on spreadsheets, fragmented system landscapes and localised tools for consolidation and reporting processes.
As Japanese organisations continue to modernise finance processes, demand is growing for integrated technologies that improve transparency, efficiency and scalability across group structures. Seamlessly integrating with existing ERP
Sharon AI and VAST Data expand partnership to power AI factories across APAC
SharonAI Holdings, a leading Australian
Neocloud, and VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, have announced an expanded strategic partnership under which Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure.
The commitment makes the VAST AI Operating System the foundational data layer for Sharon AI’ s sovereign AI infrastructure, serving government, enterprise, research and AI-native customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
This deployment represents one of the largest and most advanced Sovereign AI data foundations in the Asia-Pacific region. It positions Sharon AI at the forefront of Australia’ s push to build independent, high-performance AI capability – keeping the nation’ s most sensitive workloads, intellectual property and strategic data firmly onshore while delivering the raw power needed for nextgeneration training, inference and Agentic AI systems.
The 600PB VAST AI OS deployment delivers the key capabilities
Sharon AI’ s sovereign cloud demands: massive concurrent throughput for training and inference workloads, native multi-tenancy with strong isolation and per-customer SLAs, built-in resilience and uptime guarantees and integrated data services like KV cache optimisation and observability essential for managing data at this scale. Sharon AI can now scale GPU capacity without data bottlenecks while meeting the governance and performance requirements sovereign customers demand.
Using a proven benchmark of approximately 6PB of optimised AI storage per 1,000 GPUs for demanding largescale workloads, the new 600PB VAST deployment provides the scalable data backbone equivalent to supporting the data needs of ~ 100,000 GPUs. This is a transformative leap that cements Sharon AI’ s AI Cloud platform as one of the most substantial Sovereign AI clouds in Australia and Asia-Pacific. www. intelligentcio. com
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