{"id":291811,"date":"2025-11-18T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291811\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:21:10","slug":"harbor-solutions-and-zadara-launch-sovereign-ai-cloud-platform-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291811\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbor Solutions and Zadara launch sovereign AI cloud platform in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Partners can offer sovereign, scalable services for AI and traditional workloads.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\".\/media_10b28f550bcebea06e71bad856291b76ce8dc5d68.jpg?width=750&amp;format=jpg&amp;optimize=medium\" width=\"1403\" height=\"881\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n<p>James Harris, CEO, Harbor Solutions<\/p>\n<p>UK-based MSP Harbor Solutions and cloud platform Zadara have extended their partnership into Australia, offering local partners access to the sovereign AI cloud platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis enables MSPs and partners to localise and customise their offerings for specific markets, providing storage, compute, GPUs, data protection and cyber recovery,\u201d said James Harris, CEO, Harbor Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The platform runs Nvidia GPUs and applications and is designed to meet local data residency and compliance requirements for Australian organisations.<\/p>\n<p>It opens the door for partners to offer AI deployments, sovereign cloud data residency storage and cyber recovery and data protection solutions.<\/p>\n<p>It can be deployed within an existing colocation or data centre, and built-in headroom and scaleable capacity means it is flexible, allowing partners to respond to changing customer needs and market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs more powerful or different services become available, MSPs and partners can take advantage immediately, without costly refresh cycles,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n<p>It includes built-in backup and disaster recovery services, tuned for partner use cases and underpinned by Harbor\u2019s ability to deliver Rubrik-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Harbor\u2019s ANZ operation provides regional support and consumption-based pricing allows partners to scale services without capital investment of acquiring their own hardware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtility pricing and a simple consumption model, allows MSPs and partners to pay for what they need and use, rather than invest upfront in a \u2018build it and hope they come model,\u201d said James Harris, CEO, Harbor Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Harris said this offers a replacement for VMware deployments, providing an alternative and migration path with enterprise-grade performance and operational continuity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScalable infrastructure with a reduced risk baseline moves clients away from legacy, expensive platforms such as VMware,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zadara has more than 500 edge cloud locations around the world, is compatible with AWS environments and can support sovereign cloud and AI inference at the edge. Harbor Solutions provides data protection services including backup, cyber and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Harbor and Zadara have jointly delivered infrastructure for channel partners across the UK, supporting hybrid workloads and multi-tenancy arrangements. This marks their entry into the local market where they see a need for these services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChannel partners today need more than just traditional IT; they need multi-tenant AI clouds that are tailored to their businesses,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partners can offer sovereign, scalable services for AI and traditional workloads. 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