F5 and WWT's global partnership is founded on innovation, deep technical expertise, trust, and culture that drives positive business outcomes for our customers. F5 solutions help our customers with their most complex challenges around digital and security transformation and AI.

F5's Kunal Anand, Chief Technology and AI Officer, discusses F5 and NVIDIA's collaboration and announcement of F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes deployed on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for large-scale AI infrastructure and AI factories. In this video, Kunal Anand also talks about the strategic need for AI factories and problems enterprises face as they build AI factories.

F5 and WWT are partners in testing this next evolution of BIG-IP and providing valuable feedback that F5 is implementing to best serve our customers and make the update to BIG-IP Next seamless.

APIs have become the backbone of modern digital interactions, connecting everything from morning coffee purchases to streaming services. But the rise of API-centric architectures has drastically expanded the attack surface -- over 90 percent of web-based cyberattacks are now targeting API endpoints, exploiting new vulnerabilities often overlooked by security teams – and rendered traditional security measures are no longer sufficient. Join F5 Field CTO Chuck Herrin and WWT's Head of Global Cyber Strategy Traci Byrne as they talk about the urgent need for more dynamic and comprehensive defense strategies to prevent breaches. Chuck and Traci detail how security teams can "shift left" to better address API risks and vulnerabilities and outline practical steps security leaders can take to bolster their defenses.

In today's dynamic and interconnected digital landscape, web applications face an ever-increasing threat landscape, with injection-based attacks posing a significant risk to data integrity and user privacy. During this session, presented by Ben Novak from F5, we learned how the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) and its real-time threat intelligence, combined with Red Hat Ansible and the ELK Stack, can help defend against injection-based attacks and provide a proactive and comprehensive approach to web application security, safeguarding against these threats effectively.

In a world that runs on apps, application security is business security.

BIG-IP application automation has been at the forefront for a decade. As we look to build out the next ten years of automation, this session helped you learn about F5's new methodologies and implementations and where we went wrong over the past ten years. Because BIG-IP and applications are no longer in single or DR locations due to digital transformation and the global pandemic, our implementation footprints have moved to distributed locations. In this presentation, we observed firsthand how BIG-IP application automation has changed to support this transformation, including how we create reusable items with local resources.

F5 BIG-IP Next makes it easier and faster to deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your apps in any environment.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a SaaS-based platform that delivers secure network and app service connectivity between multiple clouds, on-premises data centers, and edge locations.

Have you ever walked into a cafe and had no idea what to order? Or they only took cash and you only had a card? Successful cafe owners know that making good coffee isn't good enough.

The F5 State of Application Strategy (SOAS) Report presents the latest application strategies from IT decision makers around the world. Capping a decade's worth of insights, the data suggests how modernized apps, persistent multicloud management, and an explosion of APIs are influencing app strategy and driving (or hindering) progress toward generative AI. Discover how well your organization is positioned to manage today's distributed apps while deploying AI for a competitive advantage.

VS Code extensions provide capabilities to increase developer productivity and streamline the developer experience. In this session, presented by Ben Novak of F5, we explored all the great features of the vscode-f5 extension, how it streamlines automation workflow development, and looked under the hood at how it works.