F5 BIG-IP and Dell ObjectScale power modern S3 AI storage

The adoption of AI, analytics, and cloud-native development has become a baseline requirement for enterprises to stay competitive and embrace powerful, future-forward use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal AI, and agentic AI. Underpinning these capabilities is the use of scalable, resilient, high-performance object storage.

Here's why: applications across distributed environments are now generating and consuming petabytes of data, with exabytes not far off, and data needs to be more readily available to support real-time workflows. AI requests and API calls traverse numerous environments including cloud, on-premises, and edge, accumulating latency that slows down services and time to insights. Even a few seconds' delay in an AI application's responses can lead to significant rates of user drop off.

Efficient, effective, and scalable object storage allows enterprises to remove barriers for current AI projects and be better positioned to make the most of future AI opportunities. Dell ObjectScale and F5 BIG-IP form a synergistic solution that not only meets these demands but redefines how S3-compatible workloads are delivered across distributed infrastructures.