F5 and MinIO collaborate to accelerate data pipeline performance, focus on security, and support scalability for AI manufacturing facilities
In a groundbreaking move, F5 and MinIO have joined forces to create a solution that aims to revolutionize AI/ML data pipelines across hybrid environments, including edge, cloud, and on-premises platforms. This partnership is designed to accelerate AI factories by providing resilient data delivery and intelligent traffic management for AI workloads such as model training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
The collaboration offers several key benefits for AI/ML data pipelines, particularly AI factories. High-throughput, secure data ingestion pipelines eliminate bottlenecks and hotspots during batch and real-time AI data ingestion. Secure, resilient load balancing intelligently routes AI data from diverse sources to AI factory environments, enabling accelerated inference and training.
Moreover, the solution supports data repatriation from public clouds to on-premises or hybrid setups to reduce costs and ensure regulatory compliance. Data replication, secure multicloud backup, and disaster recovery ensure data availability, reliability, and security across geographies. Integrated scalable object storage (MinIO AIStor) combined with F5's secure traffic management delivers secure end-to-end data handling in AI workflows.
This joint solution is already serving industries such as automotive, manufacturing, IoT, finance, and healthcare. It is designed to simplify deployment, reduce total cost of ownership, and provide a secure, globally interconnected infrastructure for AI systems. By aligning with F5’s AI Reference Architecture, the partnership helps organizations efficiently manage and scale complex AI workloads with enhanced security and performance.
Garima Kapoor, Vice President of Products at MinIO, commented, "Rapid AI adoption is reshaping modern data infrastructures, requiring organizations to reliably scale data storage, while maintaining more control over costs, security, and governance. The partnership between MinIO and F5 provides enterprises with a scalable, secure solution that delivers confidence when deploying and managing their AI initiatives, ensuring data integrity and performance from the edge to the AI factory."
John Maddison, Co-Founder and EVP of Products and Technologies at F5, added, "This technology alliance partnership between F5 and MinIO showcases the power of two leading platforms coming together to improve how data is managed, transported, and secured at exascale."
For more information on this solution, readers are encouraged to visit the companion blog at www.f5.com/partners/technology-alliances/minio.
This partnership addresses high public cloud costs, latency bottlenecks in AI workflows, and the demand for secure data access, redundancy, and scalability. It is aimed at industries like autonomous vehicles, healthcare, retail, IoT, telecommunications, finance, media, and entertainment.
The combined solution addresses load imbalances, unsecured endpoints, and other factors that impact performance and reliability across the network. It ensures rapid processing, high availability, and dynamic scalability, with prominent use cases including AI/ML workflows, fine-tuning, training, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
In conclusion, the F5 and MinIO partnership offers a powerful solution for organizations seeking to meet the demands of AI and data-intensive applications. By providing secure, high-performance, scalable AI/ML data pipelines, this collaboration is set to reshape the future of AI adoption.
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The collaboration between F5 and MinIO, rooted in data-and-cloud-computing technology, aims to accelerate AI factories by providing resilient data delivery and intelligent traffic management for AI workloads such as model training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This partnership showcases the power of two leading platforms coming together to improve how data is managed, transported, and secured at exascale, further highlighting its impact on data-intensive applications.
