Three strategies to promote the comprehensive application of AI F5 continues to create a better digital world

On January 23, F5 held a 2025 Spring Festival Media Meeting in Beijing with the theme of "AI for ADC, ADC for AI". At the meeting, F5 deeply interpreted the cutting-edge trends of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and announced that it will comprehensively promote AI applications in the Chinese market through three major strategies, including working with partners to create a comprehensive AI product portfolio, actively promoting the application and innovative practices of industry solutions such as automobiles, biopharmaceuticals, and high-end manufacturing (integrated circuits), and jointly creating a channel partner ecosystem, which not only fully demonstrates F5's corporate vision of "building a better digital world", but will also better help Chinese corporate users accelerate digital transformation and create new quality productivity.

Four major AI application trends deeply empowering enterprise digital transformation

Currently, generative AI is reshaping digital experiences at an astonishing rate, driving innovation, improving efficiency, and solving complex problems. It is estimated that by 2025, 77% of companies worldwide will deploy generative AI to improve productivity; by 2028, 84% of applications will become AI applications or have AI reasoning capabilities. In this regard, F5 believes that companies need to grasp the four major technical directions of the AI ​​era in order to better seize the development opportunities of the era:

Multi-modal: The training set size of generative AI has exceeded one trillion, covering multi-modal data sources such as text, images, audio and video. The AI ​​model's ability to handle complex tasks has been significantly improved, providing strong support for innovation and development in multiple fields.

Data gravity: The surge in data volume, the popularity of multi-cloud, and data sovereignty issues have made data gravity a key factor. Optimizing data distribution and deployment strategies will reduce transmission costs and improve AI application efficiency.

Power Gravity: As the world pays more attention to energy demand and sustainable development, energy factors are becoming an important factor in determining the location of AI data centers. Especially in the context of the growing demand for large-scale AI computing, choosing a region with sufficient energy supply and controllable costs has become an important consideration for corporate decision-making.

Security: The distributed deployment of AI data and the use of application program interfaces (APIs) expand the attack surface. Enterprises need to guard against threats such as prompt injection, data leakage, and API attacks to ensure the security of AI applications and business continuity.

Mohan Veloo, Chief Technology Officer of F5 Asia Pacific, said, "F5's mission is to protect, deliver, and optimize any application and API anywhere. In the AI ​​era, F5 has always been committed to helping enterprises cope with the new challenges and opportunities brought by AI technology through innovative application delivery and application security solutions. Faced with the massive data load generated by AI applications, inference and training nodes must rely on reliable and high-bandwidth connections, and the efficient operation of AI clusters is inseparable from powerful scheduling tools to ensure full utilization of GPU resources and flexible response to possible failures. F5 focuses on these key links and provides comprehensive support to enterprises, which will help enterprises effectively solve AI complexity problems and promote the wider implementation of AI technology."

F5 China fully embraces AI and releases three major strategies for 2025

From the world to China, F5 has been committed to bringing the most advanced technology to users and helping them seize opportunities in the digital age. "In the 25 years since entering the Chinese market, F5 has always driven development with innovation, continuously upgraded technology and solutions, and continued to meet the increasingly diverse needs of Chinese customers in the field of multi-cloud application services. Faced with the rapid development trend of AI and the unique opportunities in the Chinese market, F5 China is based on the present and has insight into the future, helping customers cope with the challenges and opportunities of the AI ​​era with stronger technical capabilities and forward-looking solutions." Huang Yanwen, Vice President of F5 Asia Pacific and President of North Asia, said that F5 will continue to deepen its presence in the Chinese market and help Chinese users fully embrace the wave of AI applications through three major strategies.

Improve the AI ​​product portfolio: Focus on AI training and reasoning scenarios, continue to optimize application delivery and application security solutions in multi-cloud environments, build a more efficient and intelligent AI support system, and meet the complex business needs of enterprises in the AI ​​era.

Comprehensively expand into new industries: Deeply expand into the automotive, biopharmaceutical, and high-end manufacturing (integrated circuit) industries, while exploring the potential of new industries such as new energy and new retail, and using customized solutions to help companies achieve digital and intelligent transformation.

Co-create a channel partner ecosystem: Strengthen collaboration with technology partners and channel partners, promote ecosystem cooperation, jointly develop future-oriented innovative solutions, and build a more resilient and competitive industry ecosystem.

Working with partners to create six AI solutions and expand into three emerging industries

Currently, F5 has established in-depth cooperation with industry-leading manufacturers to jointly build six innovative application delivery and application security solutions for AI applications, helping enterprises accelerate the realization of AI-driven digital transformation goals while ensuring the safe and reliable operation of core businesses.

F5 and NVIDIA jointly released AI solutions: F5's innovative AI application delivery and application security solution BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, equipped with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, can accelerate AI application delivery to accelerate, protect and simplify data traffic flowing in and out of large-scale AI infrastructure.

F5 and Intel collaborate on AI solutions: F5 NGINX Plus combines with Intel’s Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit and cutting-edge optimizations and performance of infrastructure processing units (IPUs) to deliver exceptional protection, scalability, and performance for advanced AI inference.

F5 has established strategic alliances with several leading vendors: F5 has established strategic alliances with several leading global technology vendors, including Red Hat, Dell, and NetApp. This collaboration aims to integrate the technical advantages of all parties, jointly promote innovation in AI application delivery and application security, and meet the needs of rapidly developing digital transformation.

At the same time, F5, with a new strategic perspective, relying on its profound technical accumulation and outstanding innovation capabilities, actively expands into key emerging industries such as automobiles, biopharmaceuticals, and high-end manufacturing (integrated circuits), and comprehensively promotes the digitalization and intelligent upgrading of the industry. By leading the implementation of technological breakthroughs and innovative achievements, F5 continues to help industry users inject strong momentum into the development of new quality productivity.

Huang Yanwen, Vice President of F5 Asia Pacific and President of F5 North Asia, said, "The deep integration of AI technology will not only help our customers achieve more efficient and intelligent operations in a complex and changing digital environment, but will also further consolidate F5's global technological leadership. In 2025, F5 will use 'AI for ADC, ADC for AI' as its innovation driving force to continue to launch leading products and solutions based on AI technology to ensure the optimization and security of application delivery. At the same time, we will actively expand our innovative advantages to more industry scenarios, work with partners to promote industry digital transformation, and work together to create a better digital world."