AI Data Delivery and Ingestion Solutions

F5 accelerates secure AI data pipelines, ensuring storage, networking, and data delivery keep AI clusters fully utilized across hybrid and multicloud deployments.


When data crawls, AI stalls

High-performance AI workloads demand uninterrupted, secure data movement. Bottlenecks in storage networking or data pipelines leave GPUs idle and costs soaring. F5 solves these challenges with AI storage networking, intelligent data path load balancing, and secure S3-compatible pipelines, keeping infrastructure optimized and AI/ML models on track.

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) unifies industry-leading delivery and security in one programmable platform. Leverage multiple deployment models and manage with a single policy across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Distributed Data Transport

Deliver high-performance AI data pipelines with S3-compatible object storage, enabling fast, secure transfers for training and inference while blocking malicious traffic to datasets, protecting pipeline integrity and optimizing infrastructure performance.

Loose Coupling and Endpoint Resilience

Enable resilient and flexible AI storage networking with seamless failover and storage migration. Support cost-efficiency with workload repatriation from cloud to on-prem while keeping pipelines reliable and uninterrupted.

Programmable Traffic Management

Apply policy-driven traffic steering across AI data flows. Optimize storage cluster utilization, enforce security, and scale data delivery in hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Learn about optimizing AI data pipelines

Discover how F5 BIG-IP simplifies training, fine-tuning, and RAG data ingestion. Ensure secure, high-performance data flows across your AI infrastructure in hybrid and multicloud environments.

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How F5 helps

Performant Data Transport

Efficient aggregation of distributed AI data across global sources

F5 streamlines data transport across geographic and organizational boundaries, enabling efficient aggregation for AI/ML pipelines with low latency and high reliability.

Secure Object Delivery

Reliable, secure delivery of distributed AI datasets

F5 ensures endpoint resilience, protects against data poisoning, and supports risk-managed workload repatriation. With programmable traffic management, AI data delivery remains scalable, secure, and compliant.

Optimize Object Delivery

Intelligent optimization for resilient object storage environments

F5 integrates with S3 protocol–based object stores like Dell ObjectScale, MinIO AIStor, and NetApp StorageGRID. Ensure resilient, high-throughput delivery for AI training and inference pipelines.

Storage technology alliances

F5 works with top storage vendors and AI leaders to ensure secure, efficient, and reliable AI data delivery. Together, we address challenges in storage optimization, resilience, and scalability to support robust AI pipelines and infrastructure.

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Resilient Pipelines

F5 BIG-IP abstracts S3 and other storage endpoints allowing AI applications to stay connected, even as clusters change vendors, versions, or scale. By decoupling workloads from underlying infrastructure, organizations eliminate costly rewrites and disruptions while maintaining compliance and visibility through built-in observability.

Enforce Policies

F5 BIG-IP gives enterprises precise, real-time control over AI data and S3 delivery flows. Policies and routing are dynamically enforced at the data plane, enabling granular governance, business-aligned traffic steering, and risk-managed transitions between storage environments.

Optimize Reliability

F5 BIG-IP detects early signs of node stress and rebalance S3 ingestion traffic before failures impact critical AI pipelines. By intelligently distributing workloads and preventing hot spots, BIG-IP helps enterprises scale AI training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation workloads with confidence.

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