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F5, Inc. provides application delivery, application security, performance, and automation technologies for enterprises, service providers, and government customers. Company news centers on the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, app and API protection, hybrid multicloud deployments, Kubernetes-native security, NGINX offerings, and AI application security for production workloads.
Recurring updates also include technology collaborations with cloud, data security, and open-source platform partners; threat research and security testing frameworks; quarterly earnings releases across products, systems, software, and services; investor events; and board governance changes.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced expanded collaboration with Red Hat to enhance Kubernetes and AI application security. New offerings include F5 WAF for NGINX on NGINX Gateway Fabric for Red Hat OpenShift and an AI quickstart for F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team on Red Hat OpenShift AI.
Solutions use certified Red Hat OpenShift Operators, provide OWASP Top 10 and modern API protection, and deliver pre-built blueprints and validated chatbot architectures for secure, scalable AI workflows.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) released the 2026 State of Application Strategy Report showing AI has become a production workload across enterprises. Key findings: 78% run AI inference, organizations coordinate an average of seven production models, 93% use multicloud, and 86% run hybrid multicloud apps. The report highlights rising AI security challenges (88%) and preparation for agentic AI (98%), urging unified delivery, governance, and control across prompts, tokens, APIs, and environments.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) will host an Analyst and Investor Meeting on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 1:00 pm ET in New York, NY. A live webcast and replay will be available on the company's investor relations Events & Presentations page at f5.com.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) appointed Anand Eswaran to its board of directors effective April 24, 2026. Eswaran will join the Audit and Talent and Compensation Committees and expands the board to 9 members, 8 of whom are independent.
Mr. Eswaran is chief executive officer at Veeam Software (over 4 years), has 25+ years in technology leadership across Microsoft, SAP, Hewlett-Packard and RingCentral, and holds degrees from University of Mumbai and University of Missouri.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) reported Q2 FY2026 revenue of $812 million, up 11% year‑over‑year, driven by 22% product revenue growth. GAAP net income was $148 million ($2.58 EPS); non‑GAAP net income was $223 million ($3.90 EPS). F5 raised FY2026 revenue guidance to 7%–8% and non‑GAAP EPS guidance to $16.25–$16.55. The company is guiding Q3 revenue of $820M–$840M and non‑GAAP EPS of $3.91–$4.03. A webcast and replay are available today, April 28, 2026.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) will report second quarter fiscal year 2026 results on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 after the market close.
A live webcast for investors and analysts begins at 4:30 p.m. ET on April 28, 2026; audio dial‑in numbers, conference ID and replay options are provided for webcast and phone replays through April 29, 2026.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) and Forcepoint announced an alliance to secure enterprise AI across the full lifecycle, combining Forcepoint's AI-native DSPM data discovery and classification with F5's AI red teaming, guardrails, and runtime protections in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform.
The partnership aims to close gaps between data governance and runtime enforcement, enabling real-time risk prioritization, policy enforcement across APIs and agents, and continuous telemetry and validation for production AI systems.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV), together with AWS and Microsoft, contributed to an NSS Labs white paper establishing a framework for AI guardrail efficacy testing. The paper defines critical capability areas, a validation-testing blueprint, and governance guidance to help enterprises evaluate AI security, resilience, and accountability.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) and Skyfire announced a technology partnership to integrate Skyfire’s Know Your Agent (KYA) protocol with F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform. The integration aims to let merchants distinguish verified AI agents from malicious bots, enable tokenized agent payments, and monetize agentic traffic.
The Skyfire integration with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense will be available by April 30, 2026, and is designed to work within existing stacks with no re-platforming required.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) and NVIDIA expanded their integration on March 17, 2026 to accelerate AI inference with BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. Validated results show up to 40% higher token throughput, 61% faster time to first token, and 34% lower latency.
The joint solution offloads networking and security to DPUs, improves GPU utilization, supports multi-tenant AI platforms, and aims to lower cost per token without model changes.