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AI Has Left the Lab: F5 Report Reveals 78% of Enterprises Now Run AI Inference as a Core Operation
SEATTLE, May 05, 2026--F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today released its annual State of Application Strategy (SOAS) Report, revealing that artificial intelligence has crossed a critical threshold: it is no longer an experimental initiative but a production workload demanding the same operational rigor as any mission-critical system. The research, based on responses from hundreds of enterprise IT and security leaders worldwide, shows that 78% o
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