“F5 invented API security.”

Seven years ago, F5 was a data center load-balancing specialist, and close to 90% of our product revenues came from perpetual hardware sales into on-prem environments. It’s clear today that distributed architectures are the new standard—whether businesses have planned for it or not.

At AppWorld 2024, we announced the F5 AI Data Fabric, a new data platform to deliver on the promise of AI. This innovation is a big step toward putting AI to work to deliver better app and API protection, more quickly, and with a ridiculously easy experience for users.

All day every day, APIs power the apps we use to purchase our coffee, badge into the door at the office, grab a rideshare, check the weather, and finally sit down at the end of a long day to stream a beloved TV show. Nearly every organization that we interact with daily relies on APIs to drive their digital business.