From elevating resilience to protecting APIs, our goal is to set the stage for businesses to thrive in the age of AI. And with the help and expertise of our global channel partners, we are helping joint customers tackle some of their most complex challenges—enabling them to build robust AI-powered applications, modernize legacy infrastructures, and strengthen security postures in hybrid multicloud environments.
“F5, together with our channel partners, powers the applications driving the world’s largest and most influential businesses.”
AI has transformed the way organizations think about and design their application infrastructures. As enterprises increasingly adopt AI-driven technologies, our partners have emerged as trusted guides in helping lay the foundations of scalable, secure, and intelligent application ecosystems. At the same time, F5 empowers IT teams to unlock the full potential of AI by accelerating data ingestion, inference, and secure API-driven services.
AI and modernization at the core of digital transformation
F5’s partner ecosystem supports a wide range of initiatives that underscore customers' growing emphasis on AI and hybrid cloud adoption. Deployment scenarios include:
- Achieving scalable AI data ingestion and inference load balancing.
- Crafting resilient F5 Distributed Cloud Services architectures that span cloud mesh, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), DNS resiliency, and proactive monitoring.
- Modernizing legacy application delivery controllers (ADCs) with SaaS-enabled hybrid frameworks.
- Implementing API discovery and security solutions to address evolving digital attack surfaces.
These cutting-edge use cases and the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform equip organizations with modern capabilities tailored to AI workloads and dynamic application environments.
Global success stories: Highlighting partner impact
Together with our partners, we have delivered meaningful outcomes across industries, including financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications. A few examples:
In EMEA, Alpha Data collaborated with F5 to enable a scalable AI deployment for a major enterprise, enhancing data ingestion and inference load balancing while supporting infrastructure growth.
In APCJ, NTT Singapore worked with us to modernize Mizuho Bank’s IT architecture, integrating F5 BIG-IP systems and Distributed Cloud Services solutions for increased network resiliency and visibility.
In LATAM, TELTEC partnered with F5 on a $1.5 million engagement at Banco do Brasil, focusing on fortifying API security and transforming application protection strategies.
Also in APCJ, Nexon and F5 supported Australia’s Hospital Contribution Fund (HCF) through a major migration project, helping the organization modernize its systems and meet ambitious timelines with precision and efficiency.
Tim Larcos, GM of Technology Services at HCF, emphasized the importance of mutual experience. “The relationship we’ve built with Nexon over the years meant we could trust them to help coordinate this complex migration,” he said. “They understood our environment and worked seamlessly with both our team and F5 to achieve our very ambitious timeline.”
Deployments such as these highlight F5’s technological prowess—also underscoring how strategic partnerships are driving and solving innovation and solve business challenges across diverse markets.
Driving data center modernization
Modernization initiatives have also gained momentum around hardware refresh cycles and competitive displacement. F5 partners have spearheaded projects that include:
- Upgrading legacy ADCs and integrating security stacks into unified architectures.
- Securing application environments to mitigate threats like credential-stuffing through F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense.
- Replacing outdated infrastructures with future-ready platforms capable of meeting growing AI and hybrid-cloud demands.
Partnering to power the world’s largest enterprises
F5, together with our channel partners, powers the applications driving the world’s largest and most influential businesses. Every day, nearly half of the world’s application data flows through F5 technology, offering unparalleled visibility into the challenges and threats faced by legacy and modern apps.
Trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500, F5 supports industries that form the backbone of the global economy. Our customers span industries, including the 15 largest global banks, 10 leading global automotive companies, 10 top global telecommunications providers, 10 of the largest U.S. retail businesses, and the10 top global insurance firms.
By ensuring applications are always fast, available, and secure, and by connecting them across distributed cloud environments, F5 and our partners help joint customers scale innovation. Take our partnership with Optiv, for example. By combining Optiv’s security expertise with F5’s proven ability to secure critical clinical applications, protect patient data, and deliver resilient hybrid multicloud performance, we make it possible for healthcare organizations to tackle some of their most pressing challenges.
As Todd Perrault, Sr. Vice President, Client Advisory at Optiv, put it: “Optiv’s partnership with F5 has strengthened significantly over the past year, especially in our work with some of the United States’ largest healthcare organizations … This alignment has driven clear momentum, expanding our joint engagements and consistently delivering high-impact outcomes across complex healthcare environments.”
As AI becomes increasingly central to business strategies, F5 and our global partner ecosystem stand committed to addressing the unique needs of customers while advancing application delivery and security.
To explore how our partner ecosystem is advancing AI and modernization, I encourage you to visit our partner webpage.
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