Arista Networks announces next generation 7130 Series systems designed for demanding in-network apps
Mirantis collaborates with Equinix to help businesses accelerate cloud-native application deployment
F5 enhances AI Gateway to control AI costs, access, and security
F5 integrated AI Gateway into its AI Security Platform, adding model routing, MCP governance, and guardrails, claiming up to 60% token spend reduction.
F5 announced AI Gateway enhancements combining a Model Gateway for cost optimization, an MCP Gateway for agent-to-tool access control, and AI Guardrails for prompt and response inspection. The company cited its 2026 State of Application Strategy Report finding 77% of organizations now treat inference as their dominant AI activity and manage an average of seven AI models. F5 claims smart routing, semantic caching, and GPU-aware load balancing can cut token spend by up to 60% without application changes. The gateway enforces budgets, model routing policies, and agent access controls centrally across SaaS, hybrid SaaS, and hybrid multicloud deployments, with air-gapped support planned.
Synthesized builds Test Data Agent to validate AI agents with production-like data
Synthesized announced a Test Data Agent that provisions production-like data and system states to validate enterprise AI agents before deployment.
Synthesized unveiled its Test Data Agent, an agentic infrastructure capability that generates, masks, and subsets production-representative data for testing AI agents under realistic enterprise conditions. It integrates with agent development, evaluation, testing, and orchestration frameworks, with purpose-built support for complex SAP estates including finance, procurement, and supply-chain workflows and ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation programs. The product runs in on-premises, private-cloud, and hybrid environments and exposes REST APIs and CI/CD triggers for repeatable validation scenarios.
A10 Networks introduces AI Gateway to secure and manage enterprise AI
A10 Networks launches AI Gateway, a control plane for routing, cost management, and governance of enterprise AI agents and LLMs.
A10 Networks announced general availability of the A10 AI Gateway, a centralized control plane providing identity-based AI access policies, smart routing that matches request complexity to model capability, and per-request dollar cost tracking with per-team token budgets. The product enforces business-layer TPM/RPM rate limiting and integrates with A10's TrojAI and ThreatX AI security portfolio across the AI lifecycle. It runs entirely in the customer environment—on-premises, private cloud, or air-gapped—for full data sovereignty.
DataGrout helps enterprises control AI usage, governance and LLM costs
SelectHub launched DataGrout, an LLM cost and governance platform combining dynamic context pruning, symbolic inference and MCP gating, claiming about 60% token reduction.
SelectHub launched DataGrout, an LLM inference optimization and AI governance platform combining dynamic context pruning, a symbolic inference layer, and an MCP gateway with per-call token and cost monitoring. Early tests claim roughly 60% token reduction on data-intensive ERP and CRM integration tasks without accuracy loss. The platform connects via its Conduit SDK, MCP or JSON-RPC, offers its own MCP servers for SaaS apps such as Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow, and supports bring-your-own-key LLM access or gateways like Amazon Bedrock and Kong.