F5, a US-based application security company, has announced an expanded strategic partnership with MinIO, a leader in high-performance object storage for AI workloads. This collaboration aims to deliver robust solutions tailored for modern, data-intensive AI environments, especially AI factories that support advanced inference and training by aggregating data from distributed endpoints, edge devices, data centers, and cloud infrastructures.
Together, F5 and MinIO provide scalable, high-performance, secure, and reliable technologies across key sectors such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, retail, IoT, telecommunications, finance, media, and entertainment.
The integration of F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with MinIO’s AIStor Enterprise Edition creates a seamless hybrid multicloud solution supporting AI/ML data pipelines, data repatriation, replication, and exascale storage.
This partnership addresses major enterprise challenges, including high public cloud costs, latency in AI workflows, and increasing needs for secure data access, redundancy, and scalability.
