F5 expands performance, multi-tenancy, and security capabilities for fast-evolving AI landscape with NVIDIA

F5 announced new capabilities for F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes accelerated with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and the NVIDIA DOCA software framework, underscored by customer Sesterce’s validation deployment. Sesterce is a leading European operator specialising in next-generation infrastructures and sovereign AI, designed to meet the needs of accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.

Extending the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes running natively on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs delivers high-performance traffic management and security for large-scale AI infrastructure, unlocking greater efficiency, control, and performance for AI applications. In tandem with the compelling performance advantages announced along with general availability earlier this year, Sesterce has successfully completed validation of the F5 and NVIDIA solution across a number of key capabilities, including the following areas:

– Enhanced performance, multi-tenancy, and security to meet cloud-grade expectations, initially showing a 20% improvement in GPU utilisation.

– Integration with NVIDIA Dynamo and ...