F5 and MinIO team up to drive data pipelines for AI manufacturing, emphasizing speed, security, and scalability.
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping modern data infrastructures, organizations are grappling with the need to reliably scale data storage while maintaining control over costs, security, and governance. To address this challenge, F5 and MinIO have partnered to create a hybrid multicloud solution designed for industries with data-intensive AI needs.
The collaboration integrates F5's Application Delivery and Security Platform with MinIO's AIStor Enterprise Edition, resulting in a seamless, secure, and scalable management system for massive, globally distributed datasets required for AI training, inference, and deployment.
This joint solution, optimized, secured, and accelerated the flow of data from distributed endpoints like IoT devices or sensors to centralized AI factories, ensuring enterprises can handle exascale data workloads and real-time AI applications efficiently.
Key features of the solution include a hybrid multicloud architecture that supports data movement and processing across edge, cloud, and on-premises environments, high performance for demanding AI/ML workloads, enterprise-grade security, reliability and resiliency, cost efficiency, data repatriation and replication, and AI/ML pipeline management.
The solution is targeted at industries such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, retail, IoT and telecommunications, finance, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and cloud service providers.
F5 and MinIO's technology alliance provides a scalable, secure solution for AI model training and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The partnership aims to address needs in these industries by delivering high-throughput, secure ingestion pipelines for data training and inference, eliminating pipeline bottlenecks and hotspots.
The solution ensures rapid processing, high availability, and dynamic scalability and is already deployed by organizations across various industries. A global automotive manufacturer, for example, is using F5 and MinIO to securely deliver data from vehicles worldwide to AI factories for AI model improvement.
John Maddison, the chief product and corporate marketing officer at F5, stated that the partnership between F5 and MinIO showcases the power of two leading platforms coming together to improve data management, transportation, and security at exascale.
For more information on this solution, visit www.f5.com/partners/technology-alliances/minio. The combined solution ensures data integrity and performance from the edge to the AI factory.
Data-and-cloud-computing technology plays a significant role in the collaboration between F5 and MinIO, as their hybrid multicloud solution, optimized for data-intensive AI needs, aims to provide a seamless, secure, and scalable management system. This technology alliance also focuses on addressing pipeline bottlenecks and hotspots for high-throughput, secure data ingestion pipelines in various industries.
