To improve AI efficiency and security in sovereign cloud environments, NVIDIA and F5 are integrating NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs with F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes for application delivery and security.
The partnership, announced today at the NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai, India, is ideal for industries with stringent data governance, privacy and compliance requirements, and addresses the growing demand for scalable AI infrastructure. I will.
“We are working with NVIDIA to help the industry deliver scalable, secure AI solutions faster and with better performance, while ensuring data protection,” said Ahmed Guetari, vice president and general manager of service providers at F5. We are making it possible to introduce it.”
The partnership aims to help governments and industry manage sensitive data while accelerating the delivery of AI applications. According to IDC, the sovereign cloud market is expected to reach $250 billion by 2027. Meanwhile, ABI Research predicts that the market for basic models will be worth $30 billion by 2027.
Sovereign Cloud is built to meet strict data privacy and localization requirements. These are important not only for government agencies, but also for industries that handle sensitive data, such as telecommunications and financial services.
Deployed on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes provides a secure and compliant AI networking infrastructure, enabling industries to deploy advanced AI capabilities without compromising data privacy.
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes efficiently routes AI prompts to LLM instances and reduces energy usage by offloading tasks such as load balancing, routing, and security to BlueField-3 DPUs. This ensures scalable AI performance while optimizing GPU resource utilization.
NVIDIA NIM microservices that accelerate deployment of underlying models will also benefit from collaboration thanks to more efficient AI workload management.
NVIDIA and F5’s integrated solution promises enhanced security and efficiency, and is key for industries moving to cloud-native infrastructure. These innovations enable industries in highly regulated sectors to safely and confidently scale AI applications and meet the highest data protection standards.
Editor’s note: Figures for the global sovereign cloud market are based on IDC’s “Worldwide Sovereign Cloud Market Forecast, 2022–2027” report, published November 2023, Doc # US49695922. Data on the generative AI software market from ABI Research’s “Gen AI Software” report, MD-AISG-101, published July 2024.
