F5 Partners with Intel to Simplify Security and Delivery of AI Services

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced it is bringing robust application security and delivery capabilities to AI deployments powered by Intel. This new joint solution combines the industry-leading security and traffic management of F5’s NGINX Plus offering with the advanced optimization and performance of Intel’s Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit and Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) to deliver superior protection, scalability, and performance for advanced AI inference.

As organizations increasingly embrace AI to power intelligent applications and workflows, efficient and secure AI inference becomes critical. This need is addressed by combining the OpenVINO toolkit, which optimizes and accelerates AI model inference, with F5 NGINX Plus, which provides robust traffic management and security.