F5 Introduces AI Gateway to Manage and Secure Surging AI Traffic and Application Demands
November 12 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
- Manages security for both users and providers of AI services,
overseeing authentication and zero trust capabilities
- Prioritizes the consumption of AI services across teams,
applications, and APIs
- Enables integrated automation with AI services and models from
OpenAI, cloud providers, open source, and more
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced early access of F5 AI Gateway to
streamline interactions between applications, APIs, and large
language models (LLMs) driving enterprise AI adoption. This
powerful containerized solution optimizes performance,
observability, and protection capabilities—all leading to reduced
costs. Integrated with F5’s portfolio, AI Gateway gives security
and operations teams a seamless path to adopting AI services
through significantly improved data output quality and a superior
user experience.
According to F5’s State of AI Application Strategy Report, 75%
of enterprises are implementing AI. Like countless modern
applications, AI services are largely delivered and consumed via
APIs. However, enterprises face many additional challenges in
architecting and scaling AI-fluent apps and services. As an
example, efficient operations require close monitoring of
increasingly relevant metrics such as GPU compute costs and system
responsiveness, as well as emerging regulatory compliance
concerns.
“LLMs are unlocking new levels of productivity and enhanced user
experiences for customers, but they also require oversight, deep
inspection at inference-time, and defense against new types of
threats,” said Kunal Anand, Chief Innovation Officer at F5. “By
addressing these new requirements and integrating with F5’s trusted
solutions for API traffic management, we’re enabling customers to
confidently and efficiently deploy AI-powered applications in a
massively larger threat landscape.”
Real-world AI solutions require optimized request, response, and
prompt interactions across an entire data ecosystem. F5 AI Gateway
observes, optimizes, and secures a vast number of user and
automated variables to offer cost reductions, mitigate malicious
threats, and ensure regulatory compliance.
F5 AI Gateway is designed to meet customers—and their apps—at
the ideal place in their AI journey. It can be deployed in any
cloud or data center and will natively integrate with F5’s NGINX
and BIG-IP platforms to take advantage of F5’s leading app security
and delivery services in traditional, multicloud, or edge
deployments. In addition, the solution’s open extensibility enables
organizations to develop and customize programmable security and
controls enforced by F5 AI Gateway. These processes can be easily
updated and applied dynamically to drive instant adherence to
security policies and compliance mandates.
“AI-powered applications will become a cornerstone for nearly
every business and organization in the coming years,” said Shari
Lava, Senior Director, AI and Automation at IDC. “F5’s introduction
of an AI gateway to its application stack of services enables its
customers to have greater flexibility in how they build their AI
application structure, but still have enhanced protection and model
optimization.”
F5 AI Gateway:
- Delivers security and compliance policy enforcement with
automated detection and remediation against the risks identified in
the OWASP Top Ten for LLM Applications.
- Offloads duplicate tasks from LLMs with semantic caching,
enhancing the user experience and reducing operations costs.
- Streamlines integration processes, allowing developers to focus
on building out AI-powered applications rather than managing
complex infrastructures.
- Optimizes load balancing, traffic routing, and rate limiting
for local and third-party LLMs to maintain service availability and
enhance performance.
- Provides a single API interface that developers can use to
access their AI model of choice.
“F5’s AI Gateway is an integral part of our AI strategy,” said
Austin Geraci, CTO of WorldTech IT. “With this technology, our
customers are able to develop both internal and external-facing AI
applications capable of handling a surge in queries without
degradation to site and application performance. F5 brings leading
app security and delivery capabilities to accelerate AI experiences
at scale. With F5 AI Gateway, semantic caching and intelligent
traffic routing alone represent significant cost savings, and the
unification of F5 services will save customers hundreds of hours of
integration work.”
Supporting Resources
- F5 AI Gateway product page
- F5 AI Gateway overview
- F5 AI Gateway blog post
About F5
F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company
committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners
with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure
every app—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables
businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while delivering
exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers. For
more information, go to f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
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owners.
Source: F5, Inc.
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