Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean have announced a strategic partnership to advance accessible, scalable, and secure AI solutions. The collaboration aims to accelerate AI adoption by providing cost-effective infrastructure. Persistent has selected DigitalOcean as its cloud and AI infrastructure provider for SASVA™, its AI-powered platform. This partnership will reduce AI infrastructure and operational costs by over 50%, enabling faster adoption and more predictable scaling of AI across industries.
Strategic AI Alliance
Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean are collaborating to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) more accessible, scalable, and secure for enterprises and developers. The partnership, announced on December 16, 2025, focuses on providing cost-effective infrastructure to accelerate AI adoption and innovation.
Key Partnership Elements
Persistent has chosen DigitalOcean as its cloud and AI infrastructure provider for SASVA™, its AI-powered platform, which seamlessly integrates code, documentation, architecture and executive summaries. DigitalOcean’s Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud will be used to run AI workloads and customer deployments. This includes utilizing the DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform for agent development and high-powered GPUs from DigitalOcean Gradient AI Infrastructure.
Addressing AI Challenges
The collaboration aims to tackle challenges such as rising GPU and infrastructure costs, fragmented agent development ecosystems, and increasing security and compliance concerns. By combining Persistent’s AI engineering expertise and platform innovation with DigitalOcean’s cloud infrastructure and AI platform, the partnership seeks to lower barriers to AI adoption. Persistent and DigitalOcean will collaborate on SASVA and inference workloads on Gradient AI Agentic Cloud.
Expected Outcomes
Through DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud, Persistent will help clients achieve tangible outcomes from cost-efficient AI adoption, potentially reducing AI infrastructure and operational costs by over 50%. Persistent will leverage SASVA to build modern AI stacks and enhance DigitalOcean’s next-generation cloud platform for AI workloads.
Leadership Perspectives
Sandeep Kalra, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Persistent, stated the partnership exemplifies a shift to embedding AI across core operations and scaling with speed, trust and measurable impact.
Paddy Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalOcean, noted that DigitalOcean’s agentic cloud delivers accessible, scalable, and cost-effective AI infrastructure, and this partnership expands these capabilities to more enterprise use cases.
Source: BSE