F5 Unveils Converged Application Delivery and Security Platform for AI Era

F5 Unveils Industry's First Converged Application Delivery and Security Platform for the Hybrid Multicloud Infrastructures of the AI Era

F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform converges high-performance traffic management and advanced security capabilities. New solutions further enhance F5 platform with capabilities that reduce complexity, simplify operations, and strengthen security for every app. F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, the industry's first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution that fully converges high-performance load balancing and traffic management with advanced app and API security capabilities into a single platform. With this platform, F5 is delivering on the promise of a new generation of ADCs -- ADC 3.0 -- purpose-built to meet the extraordinary demands of modern and AI-powered applications. "AI is accelerating innovation, but also intensifying the high costs, crushing complexity, and escalating cyber risks that have IT and security teams in crisis," said François Locoh-Donou, President and CEO of F5. "F5 stands alone in its ability to address the challenges of hybrid multicloud architectures. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform represents a giant leap forward for organizations, enabling them to overcome complexity and unlock the full potential of AI." F5's upcoming 2025 State of Application Strategy Report found that 96% of organizations are deploying AI models. F5 further estimates that, within three years, 80% of all apps will be AI enabled. AI is here, but most enterprises are ill-equipped to handle the massive amounts of data, complex traffic patterns, and new attack vectors that are inherent in AI applications. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform has been built to address these challenges and is the most complete ADC offering for enterprises operating hybrid multicloud infrastructures. It delivers: Complete delivery and security for every app in a single platform that simplifies management for IT and security teams. Deployment anywhere in any form factor to run seamlessly across today's diverse IT environments. Single policy, unified management across all locations to reduce complexity and improve efficiency. Rich analytics and insights that are relevant and actionable to improve performance and strengthen the security of today's complex applications. Fully programmable data planes that enable automated deployment and custom functionality so organizations can effectively adapt to changing needs. Full lifecycle automation that allows teams to focus on delivering innovation and stop drowning in maintenance tasks. The platform is API-driven and enables consistent policies for every app, in every environment, across all form factors. The product of years of investment and innovation, the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform operates seamlessly across high-performance hardware in on-premises data centers, next-generation software in virtualized and hybrid environments, and SaaS for cloud-native environments. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform converges what are currently point solutions to address critical needs such as high-performance load balancing, multicloud networking, full web app and API security, and AI gateway capabilities. "AI is driving innovation while exposing businesses to unprecedented levels of complexity and risk," said Christopher Rodriguez, Research Director, Cybersecurity and Trust at IDC. "The convergence of application delivery and security capabilities will be indispensable for companies striving to stay ahead in this rapidly evolving landscape." Learn more about the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform at f5.com. Unveiling New Platform Solutions and Innovation F5 also announced several new solutions and capabilities as part of a commitment to continued innovation in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform. These solutions enable F5 customers to leverage the power of AI to reduce complexity, simplify operations, and strengthen security postures for every app. These innovations include: F5 AI Gateway: F5 AI Gateway is now generally available for organizations looking to streamline interactions between applications, APIs, and large language models (LLMs) and drive wider enterprise AI adoption. This powerful containerized solution optimizes performance, observability, and protection capabilities -- all leading to reduced costs. AI Gateway gives operations and security teams a seamless path to adopting AI services through significantly improved data output quality and a superior user experience. AI assistant for F5 NGINX One: Following last year's release of an AI assistant for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, F5 is bringing this capability to NGINX One starting today. The tool is powered by the F5 AI Data Fabric and serves as an intelligent partner to stretched NetOps, SecOps, DevOps, and platform ops teams. The AI assistant for NGINX One uses a natural language interface to streamline operations and improve ROI by helping teams configure and optimize application delivery, preemptively address threats, and identify anomalies before they impact production. AI assistant for F5 BIG-IP and iRules code generation and explanation: Later this year, F5 will also release an AI assistant for BIG-IP to bring a new level of automation and intelligence to iRules. Customers will be able to automate the creation, maintenance, and optimization of iRules while reducing the time and resources required to effectively manage traffic and securely deliver apps. By leveraging AI, the system generates optimized, validated iRules that adhere to best practices. This improves accuracy while reducing errors, ensuring a reliable and consistent experience for organizations. F5 VELOS CX1610 chassis and BX520 blade: F5 is introducing powerful new additions to its VELOS product line, giving service providers and large enterprises a unified and customizable solution to optimize data-intensive workloads of AI and other modern apps. The new VELOS CX1610 chassis and BX520 400-Gbps blade scale to multi-terabits of throughput, suitable for the highest performance NEBS-compliance standards and supporting the most demanding 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services. The F5 VELOS product line provides optimized data packet routing, granular security, load balancing, and low latency, enabling the data ingest and real-time data needs that AI solutions require. Supporting Resources Resource: Introducing the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform Resource: The Application Delivery Top 10 Resource: F5 AI Gateway Press Release: F5's Multi-terabit VELOS Hardware Powers AI Workloads for Service Providers and Large Enterprises Blog: Introducing the AI Assistant for F5 NGINX One Blog: A New Generation of ADCs for the AI Era About F5 F5 is a multicloud application delivery and security 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)

F5 launches the First Converged Application Delivery And Security Platform For Hybrid Multicloud in the AI era

Today at AppWorld, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, the industry's first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution that fully converges high-performance load balancing and traffic management with advanced app and API security capabilities into a single platform. With this platform, F5 is delivering on the promise of a new generation of ADCs -- ADC 3.0 -- purpose-built to meet the extraordinary demands of modern and AI-powered applications. "AI is accelerating innovation, but also intensifying the high costs, crushing complexity, and escalating cyber risks that have IT and security teams in crisis," said François Locoh-Donou, President and CEO of F5. "F5 stands alone in its ability to address the challenges of hybrid multicloud architectures. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform represents a giant leap forward for organisations, enabling them to overcome complexity and unlock the full potential of AI." F5's upcoming 2025 State of Application Strategy Report found that 96 per cent of organisations are deploying AI models. F5 further estimates that, within three years, 80 per cent of all apps will be AI enabled. AI is here, but most enterprises are ill-equipped to handle the massive amounts of data, complex traffic patterns, and new attack vectors that are inherent in AI applications. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform has been built to address these challenges and is the most complete ADC offering for enterprises operating hybrid multicloud infrastructures. It delivers: The platform is API-driven and enables consistent policies for every app, in every environment, across all form factors. The product of years of investment and innovation, the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform operates seamlessly across high-performance hardware in on-premises data centres, next-generation software in virtualised and hybrid environments, and SaaS for cloud-native environments. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform converges what are currently point solutions to address critical needs such as high-performance load balancing, multicloud networking, full web app and API security, and AI gateway capabilities. "AI is driving innovation while exposing businesses to unprecedented levels of complexity and risk," said Christopher Rodriguez, Research Director, Cybersecurity and Trust at IDC. "The convergence of application delivery and security capabilities will be indispensable for companies striving to stay ahead in this rapidly evolving landscape." Learn more about the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform at f5.com. Unveiling New Platform Solutions and Innovation F5 also announced several new solutions and capabilities as part of a commitment to continued innovation in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform. These solutions enable F5 customers to leverage the power of AI to reduce complexity, simplify operations, and strengthen security postures for every app. These innovations include:

F5's New App Delivery, Security Platform Built To 'Meet The Moment' Of New App, AI Security Demands

F5 has unveiled its application delivery and security platform with products that partners 'know and love:' BIG-IP, distributed cloud services, and NGINX technology combined into one software stack, the company revealed at F5's annual AppWorld 2025 event this week. Application delivery and security specialist F5 has introduced its application delivery and security platform, integrating BIG-IP, distributed cloud services, and NGINX technology into a single place for complete delivery and security for every application, according to the company. The new platform, revealed at F5's annual AppWorld 2025 event on Wednesday, converges the company's three separate point products into one to address high-performance load balancing, multi-cloud networking, full web app and API security, and AI gateway capabilities, F5 Chief Innovation Officer Kunal Anand revealed during the company's partner day. "We're thrilled to announce the application delivery and security platform to meet this moment," Anand said. "What we're describing here is more than a mere controller. A mere controller is something that's taken us so far over the last 30 years, but our needs have evolved. Our needs have fundamentally moved from a controller to a platform. What got us here will not get us there." [Related: F5 Ups Application Security With Enhanced Distributed Cloud Services Platform, AI Assistant] By converging the functionality of the three separate offerings that customers and partners "all know and love" into one platform, the company is improving functionality, especially at a time when IT environments have never been so complex with distributed, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure and new demands being placed on the network by AI, Anand said. "We're so proud of being able to bring the best of the F5 portfolio to help customers solve what we believe is some of the most important challenges that they are facing today," he added. "Complete delivery and security for every application -- this is the heart of this converged platform." The new F5 application delivery and security platform can be served up to enterprises operating premises-based hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructures. The platform gives users analytics and insights, single policy, unified management across all locations, and fully programmable data planes for automated deployment, as well as full lifecycle automation, the Seattle-based company said. Bringing together the three pieces into one platform is important right now because of how fragmented the security space has become, Chuck Herrin, F5's field CISO for API security, told CRN at the event. "I think the main message for defenders is, let's start with your app, but let's start with what you're trying to do from a business value perspective, and then we can align the right resources and tools that you need ... We have the capability to literally secure and run and deliver any app, in any API, anywhere," Herrin said. "One single dashboard where I can see all this stuff. That's all I want as a defender." The Next Generation of ADCs The application delivery and security platform announcement builds on the company's launch earlier this month of its next-generation application delivery control strategy for the AI era, or "ADC 3.0." The strategy, the company said, is focused on security, optimization and app delivery at a time in which ADCs must adapt to take on the demands of modern, AI-fueled apps. The market is starting to need next-generation ADCs, or the convergence of delivery and security functionalities in a single software stack, F5 President and CEO François Locoh-Donou told CRN. "The ability to deploy that software stack in hardware, software or software as a service, no other company has done, and so we're seeing really increased momentum at F5 with our partners, because customers are looking for the company that can deliver and secure all [their] apps. 'I don't want to have 17 vendors to do that. I don't want to have a different company because I'm in the cloud or I'm in a data center.'" he said. Many F5 customers today are using F5's three core products across different buying units. Big IP is being used by networking and data center security administrators, while NGINX is used by developers, said Todd Hathaway, global head of AI security and cyber innovation for solution provider giant and F5 partner World Wide Technology (WWT). But F5's ADC 3.0 strategy and bringing together BIG-IP, distributed cloud services, and NGINX technology into one platform will give administrators a better, simplified user experience, said Hathaway. "[Users] are able to consume F5 products the same way, regardless of the type of consumption they need to do," he said.

F5 expands application security with new platform and AI-powered automation tools - SiliconANGLE

F5 expands application security with new platform and AI-powered automation tools Application security firm F5 Inc. today announced several new solutions at its annual AppWorld 2025 confernce, including the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform and new artificial intelligence-powered solutions. The new Application Delivery and Security Platform is the industry's first converged application delivery and security platform for hybrid and multicloud infrastructures, F5 claims. It brings together high-performance load balancing and traffic management with advanced app and application programming interface security capabilities to reduce complexity, simplify operations and strengthen security for every app, according to the company. The solution seeks to address the issue of many enterprises being ill-equipped to handle the massive amounts of data, complex traffic patterns and new attack vectors that are inherent in AI applications. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform has been built to address these challenges by offering complete delivery and security for every app in a single platform that simplifies management for information technology and security teams. Features include the ability to deploy anywhere in any form factor to run seamlessly across today's diverse IT environments. The solution includes single-policy, unified management across all locations. The goal is to reduce complexity, improve efficiency and offer rich analytics and insights that are relevant and actionable to improve performance and strengthen the security of today's complex applications. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform also offers fully programmable data planes that allow for automated deployment and custom functionality so that organizations can effectively adapt to changing needs. Additionally, the solution offers full lifecycle automation that allows teams to focus on delivering innovation and stop drowning in maintenance tasks. On the AI side, F5 announced several solutions and capabilities designed to help customers leverage the power of AI to reduce complexity, simplify operations and strengthen security postures for their business apps. F5 AI Gateway, a service that helps organizations streamline applications, APIs and large language models and drive wider enterprise AI adoption, is now generally available. The containerized solution optimizes performance, observability and protection capabilities, with the results leading to reduced costs. AI Gateway also gives security and operations teams a path to adopting AI services through significantly improved data output quality and a superior user experience. The next release, AI Assistant for NGINX One, is powered by the F5 AI Data Fabric and serves as an intelligent partner to stretched NetOps, SecOps, DevOps and platform ops teams. The AI assistant uses a natural language interface to streamline operations and improve return on investment. It helps teams configure and optimize application delivery, preemptively address threats and identify anomalies before they affect production. Coming later this year, F5 also announced an AI assistant for BIG-IP and iRule code generation and explanation. With the service, customers will be able to automate the creation, maintenance and optimization of iRules while reducing the time and resources required to manage traffic effectively and securely deliver apps. The system generates optimized, validated iRules using AI that adhere to best practices and improve accuracy while reducing errors.