F5, NetApp team to streamline AI app deployments

“By integrating F5’s secure, high-performance multicloud networking capabilities with NetApp’s data management solutions, we’re making it possible to quickly retrieve company data no matter where it’s located and securely combine it with an LLM,” wrote Hunter Smit, a marketing strategist with F5, in a blog post about the integration. “NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Azure NetApp Files optimize cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection and compliance. When combined with F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect, data can be quickly and securely connected and moved across zones and regions regardless of where it’s stored.”

Then, by using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), enterprises can combine a pre-trained LLM such as ChatGPT with their own proprietary data to obtain accurate, contextually aware responses, Smit stated.   

RAG is an AI technique that combines retrieval-based and generation-based approaches to improve the quality and relevance of responses by incorporating relevant, often proprietary, documents or information from a large dataset into generated answers without exposing them to public LLMs, according to Smit.