DigitalOcean Announces a Strategic Partnership with Persistent to Advance Accessible, Scalable, and Secure AI

Combining engineering expertise and cloud innovation to accelerate AI adoption

BROOMFIELD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN), the comprehensive agentic cloud, today announced a multi-year, eight-figure average per annum strategic partnership with Persistent Systems (BSE: 533179 and NSE: PERSISTENT), a global Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization leader, to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) more affordable, scalable, and secure for Digital Native Enterprises and developers worldwide. The collaboration will accelerate AI adoption by providing accessible and cost-effective infrastructure designed for growth and innovation.

As part of this partnership, Persistent has selected DigitalOcean as its exclusive cloud and AI infrastructure provider for SASVA™, Persistent’s AI-powered platform, which seamlessly integrates code, documentation, architecture, and executive summaries, adapting fluidly across a spectrum of workflows and roles. SASVA is leveraging DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud to run its AI workloads and customer deployments reliably and cost-efficiently, including using DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform for the full agent development lifecycle, and high-powered GPUs from DigitalOcean Gradient AI Infrastructure offerings.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, they face mounting challenges such as rising GPU and infrastructure costs, fragmented agent development ecosystems, and increasing security and compliance concerns. This partnership between Persistent and DigitalOcean aims to address these barriers by combining Persistent’s AI engineering expertise and platform innovation with DigitalOcean’s robust agentic cloud infrastructure and AI platform. Persistent and DigitalOcean have made a multi-year commitment for SASVA™ and inference workloads on Gradient AI Agentic Cloud to offer secure, cost-effective and enterprise-ready AI solutions that aim to drive meaningful impact and adoption across organizations of all sizes.

Extending these capabilities through DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud, Persistent will help clients achieve tangible outcomes from cost-efficient AI adoption and business acceleration. This approach will reduce AI infrastructure and operational costs by over 50%, enabling faster adoption and more predictable scaling of AI across industries. Persistent will leverage SASVA™ along with its deep engineering expertise to build modern AI solutions designed to accelerate DigitalOcean’s AI offering roadmap by enhancing the capabilities, performance, and efficiency of DigitalOcean’s next-generation cloud platform for AI workloads.

This partnership underscores how leading technology services companies such as Persistent are choosing DigitalOcean to power next-generation AI workloads. Persistent selected Gradient AI Agentic Cloud to deliver best-in-class infrastructure for Digital Native Enterprises and AI-native customers alike by combining performance, transparency, and predictable economics. It also enables seamless scaling as AI technologies evolve, while reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs through managed, ready-to-use environments and provides continuous access to an evolving catalog of diverse models, frameworks and AI accelerators within SASVA™.

Paddy Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalOcean, notes, “DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud delivers the infrastructure, platform, and services that make AI accessible, scalable, and cost-effective. Partnering with Persistent expands these capabilities to more enterprise use cases by integrating our AI foundation with SASVA’s deterministic engineering. Together, we are accelerating the use of AI solutions at scale.”

Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent Systems, said, “As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to embedding it across their core operations, success will hinge on how effectively they scale with speed, trust and measurable impact. Our partnership with Digital Ocean exemplifies this shift, combining our AI engineering expertise and SASVA platform with Digital Ocean's agentic cloud to help clients operationalize AI with confidence. Together, we are simplifying how organizations build, deploy and scale AI, strengthening the foundation of the next wave of intelligent, platform-driven innovation.”

About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the comprehensive agentic cloud, empowering developers at AI-native businesses and Digital Native Enterprises to build full-stack AI applications with straightforward tools. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI to allow builders to spend more time creating software that changes the world. More than 640,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to deliver the cloud, AI, and ML infrastructure they need to build and scale their organizations. To learn more about DigitalOcean, visit www.digitalocean.com.