F5 and MinIO deepen collaboration to deliver top-tier, secure, and expandable data streams for AI production facilities
F5 and MinIO Partner to Streamline AI Data Management
In an exciting development, F5 and MinIO have joined forces to create a hybrid multicloud solution designed for data-intensive AI workloads, particularly AI factories requiring advanced inference and training. This partnership aims to address critical challenges such as high public cloud costs, latency bottlenecks, secure data access, redundancy, and scalability.
The combined solution, which merges F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with MinIO’s AIStor Enterprise Edition, offers several key benefits:
- Cost Reduction: By enabling data repatriation and hybrid multicloud storage, the solution allows organizations to store and process large AI datasets on-premises or across clouds without excessive cloud dependency, thereby reducing public cloud spending.
- Latency Mitigation: The solution differentiates between high-latency WAN and low-latency LAN traffic and manages load balancing across data clusters for optimized data ingestion and real-time AI processing.
- Secure Access and Protection: F5’s security and traffic management infrastructure ensures secure AI data in transit and at rest, addressing unsecured endpoints and providing secure multicloud backup.
- Scalability and Redundancy: MinIO’s high-performance, exascale object storage and F5’s intelligent load balancing enable dynamic scaling and high availability of AI workloads.
This integrated solution is already being used by leading enterprises, including a global automotive manufacturer, to collect, transport, and process large volumes of data for AI model training and inference. It accelerates AI pipeline performance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
The solution also supports fine-tuning, training, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, making it suitable for various industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, IoT, and manufacturing.
In summary, the F5-MinIO joint solution creates a secure, scalable, high-performance infrastructure addressing the key obstacles in managing modern AI data pipelines and enabling efficient AI factory deployment with advanced inference and training capabilities.
For more information on this solution, readers can visit the companion blog at www.f5.com/partners/technology-alliances/minio.
John Maddison, the chief product and corporate marketing officer at F5, stated that the partnership simplifies deployment and reduces TCO while maintaining security and a globally interconnected framework. Garima Kapoor, the co-CEO and co-founder of MinIO, mentioned that the partnership provides enterprises with a scalable, secure solution that ensures data integrity and performance from the edge to the AI factory.
This technology alliance between F5 and MinIO aims to improve data management, transportation, and security for exascale AI applications.
- The partnership between F5 and MinIO has resulted in a data-and-cloud-computing technology solution that addresses critical challenges in AI data management, offering reduced costs, latency mitigation, secure access and protection, scalability, and redundancy.
- By uniting F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with MinIO’s AIStor Enterprise Edition, this technology provides a scalable, secure solution suitable for various industries, including automotive, healthcare, finance, IoT, and manufacturing, enabling efficient AI factory deployment with advanced inference and training capabilities.
