F5 and Red Hat Expand AI Collaboration for Secure, Scalable Applications

On May 19, F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) announced an enhanced partnership with Red Hat, the leading provider of open-source solutions, aimed at helping enterprises securely deploy and scale high-performance AI applications. The collaboration enables businesses to accelerate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model serving, and scalable data ingestion, fostering AI adoption without compromising security.

AI deployment is surging, with F5’s 2025 State of Application Strategy Report showing that 96% of organizations are deploying AI models, a sharp increase from 25% in 2023. To meet this growing demand, F5 and Red Hat are prioritizing essential AI infrastructure, enabling businesses to enhance data pipeline security, improve inference performance, and efficiently scale AI solutions.

The partnership focuses on enabling secure data flow, high GPU utilization, and fast response times for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and model serving at scale, accelerating extensive dataset processing for AI training and inference through MinIO and F5 on OpenShift AI, and strengthening AI security with an API-first approach to protect against threats like prompt injection, model theft, and data leakage using F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP and BIG-IP solutions.

The collaboration highlights F5’s commitment to open-source innovation, allowing businesses to adopt AI infrastructure flexibly. The initiative will be showcased at Red Hat Summit 2025 (May 19–22 in Boston), where experts will highlight real-world AI use cases, including secure model serving and scalable RAG workloads.

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