MinIO, the leader in high-performance, Kubernetes-native object storage, announced a strategic partnership with F5, the global leader in multicloud application security and delivery. This collaboration unites MinIO’s cutting-edge, scalable storage solutions with F5’s high-performance traffic management and security technologies to enhance AI workloads, especially at exascale levels. Together, MinIO and F5 will address unique challenges of large-scale AI deployments by providing optimized data flow, robust security, and seamless hybrid and multicloud networking.
MinIO’s recently launched AIStor was built for AI and ML workloads and works out of the box with every major AI/ML technology. It is the world’s fastest object store with GETs/PUTs benchmark results that exceed 2.2 TiB/sec and 1.0 TiB/sec on 260 nodes of NVMe drives and a 100GbE network. From predictive models to GenAI, MinIO delivers the performance and scalability to power the AI enterprise.
“In partnering with MinIO on massive AI-centric workloads, we have seen first-hand their ability to deliver performance at scale at hundreds of petabytes,” said Mike Rau, SVP of Technical Enterprise Strategy and Business Development at F5. “The ability to create reference architectures and product integrations to solve customer problems at this scale with F5’s exceptional high-performing traffic management and security solutions offers a robust and comprehensive answer to the challenges facing organizations building large-scale S3 object stores.”
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F5 BIG-IP, F5 Distributed Cloud Services, and F5 NGINX offerings provide the security, network connectivity, deployment flexibility, and traffic management needed to connect, secure, and manage AI/ML apps and workloads in the cloud, at the edge, or in the F5 Global Network. Highly scalable, high-performance traffic load balancing can deliver layer 4/7 throughput of 3+ Tbps on 32 blades of F5 VELOS. F5 also recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deploy BIG-IP on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs to help optimize large-scale AI infrastructure while also freeing up CPU resources.
“The scale associated with modern AI workloads is orders of magnitude larger than what we saw even 24 months ago,” said Manjusha Gangadharan, Head of Sales and Partnerships at MinIO. “Working with F5 gives our joint customers the opportunity to leverage best in class networking, unparalleled security and cutting-edge traffic management. MinIO and F5 are cornerstones of large-scale data infrastructure and are mission critical for successful private cloud AI deployments, as we have seen in production.”
SOURCE: PRNewswire