What AI benchmarks miss about real-world performance
Presented by F5 Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption embedded in that work is that the path between storage and compute will keep up. In production, tha
Presented by F5 Enterprise AI teams have spent years solving for compute, securing GPU allocations, negotiating cloud capacity, and benchmarking training throughput. The assumption embedded in that work is that the path between storage and compute will keep up. In production, that assumption increasingly does not hold. Real traffic introduces latency spikes, network jitter, and node degradation that controlled benchmarks fail to capture, resulting in pipelines that perform well in the lab but stall in deployment. A growing response is AI data delivery , deploying an application delivery controller (ADC) or application delivery and security platform (ADSP) in front of storage as a resilient and secure control point. "Provisioning solves for capacity but not for delivery, and that is where the constraint now hides," says Hunter Smit, senior manager of product marketing at F5. "Enterprises buy enough GPUs and enough storage, then assume the path between them will keep up, but AI traffic i
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