F5 and Scality announced an expanded partnership to help organizations securely scale AI, analytics, and data-heavy workloads. By combining the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with Scality’s scalable, S3-compatible object storage, the collaboration enables enterprises to provide faster, more resilient, and secure access to data across on-premises, cloud-native, and hybrid environments.
Meeting the data demands of enterprise AI
As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, organizations are facing mounting pressure to move and protect massive volumes of data while maintaining performance, availability, and compliance. Industry analysts project enterprise use of AI APIs and generative models to surge over the next several years, with S3 object storage emerging as one of the foundational protocols supporting these workloads.
To fully realize the value of AI, organizations require infrastructure that can eliminate performance bottlenecks, scale seamlessly, and safeguard sensitive data across distributed environments. Together, F5 and Scality address these challenges with an integrated data delivery architecture purpose-built for AI and analytics at scale.
“AI workloads place unprecedented demands on infrastructure, particularly when it comes to moving, protecting, and accessing data at scale,” said John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer at F5. “By combining F5’s application delivery, traffic management, and security capabilities—all within the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform—with Scality’s proven object storage platform, we’re giving customers a powerful foundation for building AI-ready environments that deliver consistent performance, high availability, and strong security, wherever their data and applications reside.”
A unified architecture for secure AI data delivery
AI training, inference, and analytics workflows often require high-throughput access to object storage, predictable latency, and resilient multi-site connectivity. At the same time, these environments must meet stringent requirements for security, governance, and uptime, especially as organizations expand across hybrid and multicloud architectures.
The joint solution integrates F5 BIG-IP with Scality RING object storage to create a resilient, secure, and high-performance S3 environment.
- F5 intelligently routes and load-balances S3 traffic across storage nodes and sites, using precise DNS control and advanced traffic management to eliminate single points of failure.
- Scality RING CORE5 cyber-resiliency is strengthened with F5 built-in security services, including web application firewall, DDoS protection, and policy-driven access controls, to help protect data in transit, while TLS offload and hardware-accelerated cryptography optimize performance.
- RING complements this with petabyte-scale, durable storage featuring self-healing capabilities and enterprise-grade data protection.
“Enterprises adopting AI need data infrastructure that grows seamlessly without compromising cyber resilience, data protection, or uptime,” said Paul Speciale, Chief Marketing Officer at Scality. “With this validated architecture, F5 and Scality provide customers a practical, high-performance path to secure S3 access across distributed environments, accelerating AI and analytics while simplifying how teams deliver, protect, and operate data at scale.”
Together, F5 and Scality support a wide range of use cases, including AI and machine learning training and inference, multi-site data protection and disaster recovery, hybrid and multicloud storage architectures, and secure long-term data retention. The combined solution is designed to improve operational efficiency through simplified management and flexible deployment options, while helping organizations reduce complexity and total cost of ownership as they scale data-driven initiatives.
To learn more about the F5 and Scality partnership, read the blog Validated Design: Integrating F5 BIG-IP with Scality RING for Enterprise-Grade S3 here.
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