New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Bengaluru-based IT services firm Persistent Systems has entered into a strategic partnership with cloud services provider DigitalOcean to make artificial intelligence (AI) adoption more accessible, scalable and cost-effective for enterprises and developers, the companies said on Tuesday.
Under the partnership, Persistent has selected DigitalOcean as the cloud and AI infrastructure provider for SASVA, its AI-powered engineering and productivity platform. SASVA integrates code, documentation, architecture and executive summaries into a single workflow, and is positioned as a platform to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to production-scale deployment.
The platform will run its AI workloads and customer deployments on DigitalOcean's Gradient AI Agentic Cloud, including the Gradient AI Platform for agent development and DigitalOcean's GPU infrastructure for training and inference. The companies said this would allow Persistent to deliver AI solutions that are more predictable in cost and easier to scale as enterprise demand grows.
The tie-up comes at a time when enterprises are grappling with rising GPU costs, fragmented AI toolchains, and growing concerns around security and compliance as they look to embed AI into core business operations. Persistent and DigitalOcean said their collaboration aims to address these challenges by combining Persistent's AI engineering and platform capabilities with DigitalOcean's agentic cloud infrastructure.
According to the companies, the joint approach could help reduce AI infrastructure and operational costs by more than 50%, enabling faster adoption and more predictable scaling of AI workloads across industries. Persistent will use DigitalOcean's infrastructure to support SASVA deployments and inference workloads, while also working with DigitalOcean to enhance the latter's next-generation cloud platform for AI use cases.
In return, Persistent will leverage its engineering expertise and SASVA platform to help DigitalOcean strengthen its AI offerings, improve performance and efficiency, and accelerate its AI product roadmap, the statement said.
"Enterprises are moving rapidly from experimenting with AI to embedding it across their core operations," said Sandeep Kalra, chief executive officer and executive director at Persistent Systems. "Success will depend on how effectively they can scale with speed, trust and measurable impact. Our partnership with DigitalOcean is aimed at simplifying how organizations build, deploy and scale AI with confidence."
DigitalOcean chief executive officer Paddy Srinivasan said the partnership would help extend the cloud provider's AI infrastructure to more enterprise-grade use cases. "By integrating our agentic cloud foundation with Persistent's deterministic engineering through SASVA, we are accelerating the use of AI solutions at scale," he said.
Persistent said it chose DigitalOcean's Gradient AI Agentic Cloud for its combination of performance, transparency and predictable economics, particularly for digital-native and AI-native customers. The managed environments are also expected to reduce infrastructure management overheads while giving enterprises access to a broad and evolving catalogue of AI models, frameworks and accelerators.
The DigitalOcean partnership comes close on the heels of Persistent Systems expanding its AI-led design capabilities in India. Earlier this month, the company opened a new Experience Transformation (XT) Studio in Pune, aimed at helping enterprises design and deliver AI-enabled user experiences and accelerate product development. The tieup also underscores a broader shift among Indian IT services firms toward building platform-led AI offerings and aligning with global cloud providers to address enterprise demand for scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from TechCircle.