F5 and Scality Deepen Alliance to Bolster AI Data Infrastructure
Event summary
- F5 and Scality expanded their partnership on February 18, 2026, to enhance secure, high-performance data infrastructure for AI workloads.
- The integration combines F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) with Scality’s S3-compatible object storage.
- The solution aims to address performance bottlenecks, scalability, and security for AI, analytics, and data-intensive workloads across hybrid environments.
The big picture
The partnership aligns with the growing need for resilient, high-performance data infrastructure to support AI workloads. As enterprises increasingly rely on AI APIs and generative models, the integration of F5’s traffic management and security capabilities with Scality’s object storage addresses critical challenges in data delivery, security, and scalability across distributed environments.
What we're watching
- AI Infrastructure Demand
- How the surge in enterprise AI adoption will impact the scalability and performance requirements of data infrastructure solutions.
- Hybrid Cloud Growth
- Whether the joint solution can sustain its competitive edge as hybrid and multicloud architectures become more prevalent.
- Security Compliance
- The pace at which regulatory demands for data security and governance will evolve, affecting the adoption of such integrated solutions.
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