Accelerate your AI initiatives using F5 VELOS
Demo Video High-Throughput and Concurrency for AI Data Ingestion Given the escalating data demands of AI training and inference pipelines, there is a critical need to architect object-based storage systems, such as S3, and corresponding clients in a manner that ensures high-throughput, scalability, and fault tolerance under massive parallel workloads. S3 Storage Systems increase scalability and resiliency by distributing data objects across multiple storage nodes, leveraging a unified “bucket” abstraction to streamline data organization, access, and fault tolerance. S3 Client Implementations employ highly parallelized, and multi-threaded operations to maximize data transfer rates and throughput, satisfying the low-latency, high-volume requirements of AI and other computationally intensive workloads. Performance and Security for AI Workloads F5 BIG-IP delivers multi-layer load balancing reinforced by robust in-flight security services and performance thresholds engineered to meet or exceed the most demanding enterprise-scale capacity requirements. F5 VELOS Chassis & Blades have advanced FPGA accelerators, high-performance CPU architectures, and cryptographic offload engines. They are all combined with scaling to multi-terabit throughput to meet or exceed the most demanding enterprise capacity requirements. F5 BIG-IP and VELOS enable high-performance data mobility and security for AI workloads anywhere. Load Balancing for S3 AI Training Data Replication Data Replication for Training AI model training and retraining often requires the replication of data from web-service-based object storage tiers to high-performance clustered filesystems. Market Constraints Tier-1 storage systems command high costs, and the ecosystem of certified providers for AI-specific architectures remains comparatively narrow. High-Performance Requirements Effective model training demands access to Tier-1 storage that supports hardware-accelerated data transfers, ensuring rapid delivery of input to GPU memory. S3 Based Migration Replication from cost-efficient, lower-performance storage repositories to Tier 1 infrastructure is commonly orchestrated via the S3 protocol to maintain both scalability and performance. Tiered Storage S3 AI Training Data Replication F5 BIG-IP and F5 Systems, rSeries and VELOS Distributed, high-volume, high-concurrency, and low-latency load balancing solutions engineered to optimize S3 AI training data replication. BIG-IP Best-In-Class Traffic Management & Security: SPEED Smart Load Balancing & Security Directs traffic to the optimal storage for performance, security, and availability. Seamless Data Flow BIG-IP LTM ensures efficient, secure routing from external sources to local storage. Optimized S3 Routing BIG-IP DNS directs client connections to highly available storage nodes for smooth data ingestion. BIG-IP Best-In-Class Traffic Management & Security: SCALE High-Throughput Traffic Management Optimize TCP and HTTPS flows for seamless object storage access. Accelerated Packet Processing Leverage embedded eVPA in FPGA for high-performance L4 IPv4 throughput. Crypto Offload for Speed BIG-IP LTM offloads encryption to best-in-class hardware on rSeries and VELOS, boosting performance. BIG-IP Best-In-Class Traffic Management & Security: Security Robust DDoS Protection BIG-IP’s AFM defends against volumetric and targeted attacks. Secure Traffic Management BIG-IP LTM ensures efficient, secure routing from external sources to local storage. End-to-End Data Protection Safeguards AI workloads with policy-driven security and threat mitigation. F5 Systems Enables Accelerated AI Application Delivery F5 VELOS, rSeries, and BIG-IP Enable distributed, high-volume, high-concurrency, low-latency application delivery for S3. The All-New VELOS CX1610 Provides the multi-terabit throughput necessary for high-performance traffic orchestration. F5 BIG-IP App Services Suite Simplify and secure application delivery for the most demanding high-throughput AI infrastructure needs. Conclusion Unleash Massive Throughput The All-New VELOS BX520 Blade The All-New VELOS CX1610 Chassis Related Articles F5 VELOS: A Next-Generation Fully Automatable Platform F5 rSeries: Next-Generation Fully Automatable Hardware Realtime DoS mitigation with VELOS BX520 Blade
Copenhagen, Cisco, Korea, Cybercrime, and Criminals
It's all just a little bit of history repeating - and MegaZone is back in control again. This time we're looking at news from June 29th through July 5th, 2025. For my fellow USians, I hope you had a happy Fourth of July. And I hope you still have all your fingers. It is a bit light this week, as I was out of the office for a few days last week and this week, dealing with a family health crisis, so my time to read and digest the news, and then compile this issue, is a bit compressed. But the show must go on! Anyway, let's jump into it...Mitigating OWASP Web Application Risk: Vulnerable and Outdated Components using F5 BIG-IP
This article provides information on the Struts 2 vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) , one of the dangers posed by vulnerable and outdated components. It highlights how a single unpatched vulnerability in a widely used framework can lead to catastrophic consequences, including data breaches, server compromise, and damage to an organisation's reputation and how we can protect it using F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF.
