Cloud Priorities for 2025
Learn the top focus areas for cloud computing in 2025 with a roadmap for what capabilities to prioritize in the cloud computing space.
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WWT, AWS Win SentinelOne PartnerOne Awards
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WWT Exec Discusses Partnership With Dataminr To Build AI-Powered Cyber-Physical Platform
The partnership's goal is to build an AI-driven, unified cyber-physical security platform.
AI Essentials
Welcome to the AI Essentials Learning Series. This series is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand key aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI continues to revolutionize industries and transform the way we live and work, it is crucial to understand the fundamental components that enable its remarkable performance. This series of learning paths will provide you with a comprehensive overview of AI, High Performance Storage, High Performance Networking, High Performance Compute, and Security, all tailored to the specific needs of AI applications.
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The path to a high-performing workplace: Lessons from the best
Softchoice is celebrating 20 consecutive years on the list of Best Workplaces in Canada, a rare milestone that has been achieved by the organization's ability to adapt, Karen Scott shares.
Announcing the winners of the 2025 StateScoop 50 Awards
This year's awards recognize leaders and projects from 21 states, along with executives from 13 companies.
WWT CEO On Softchoice Acquisition, NVIDIA Partnership, And AI Data Center Opportunities
'We found the build-out of Softchoice in the SMB space and the midmarket and commercial space, both in Canada and in the US, to be very attractive, because that's a big market that we haven't necessarily gone after, and we don't necessarily have the, I would say, muscle memory. We haven't built out the go-to-market around that space. So instead of trying to invent that ourselves, we thought Softchoice could be a very good acquisition to accelerate that,' says WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh.
World Wide Technology closes on $1.3B deal for Canadian firm
The acquisition of Softchoice will bring "specialized software, cloud, cybersecurity and AI-based services," to WWT.
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Commvault Data Management & Protection Essentials Lab
Commvault unifies data management and protects data at scale for all workloads across every environment. Whether on-prem, in the cloud, across multiple clouds or a hybrid environment, Commvault solves real customer challenges while enabling organizations to proactively simplify and manage the complexity and growth of enterprise data. This foundational lab gives an overview of the Commvault user interface, demonstrating the ease of protecting and recovering virtual and physical workloads, as well as databases.
Deepfakes for Good? How AI is Powering the Next Era of Personalization
Can deepfakes go from dangerous to delightful? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Adam Dumey and Chris Roberts explore one of the more surprising — and controversial — topics in generative AI: the use of synthetic media and deepfakes in personalized customer experiences. You'll learn: what deepfakes really are and why they're no longer just a security threat; how AI-powered personalization is reshaping the customer experience; and the ethical and technical challenges of using AI-generated content responsibly.
F5 AI Gateway
This lab will provide access to an Openshift cluster running the F5 AI Gateway solution. We will walk through how the F5 AI Gateway routes requests to different models by either allowing them to pass through or, more importantly, securing them via prompt injection checking. We have also added a couple of other tests that will allow for language detection of that input that the F5 AI Gateway can also detect.
Troubleshooting a Wireless Network - Information Gathering
This video covers essential wireless troubleshooting strategies, focusing on isolating issues through a structured approach. It highlights key information to gather, such as client behavior, device type, and signal strength metrics. Learn how to quickly assess symptoms, correlate data, and determine root causes in dynamic Wi-Fi environments.
Shadow AI: The Threat You Didn't See Coming
AI is transforming the enterprise—but with great power comes great vulnerability. As organizations race to adopt AI technologies, they're also opening the door to a new, often invisible threat: shadow AI. These unsanctioned tools operate beyond traditional oversight, exposing gaps that legacy security frameworks just aren't built to handle. Join WWT security experts Kent Noyes and Bryan Fite as they explore explore how to get ahead of the curve by securing AI before it secures a foothold in your threat landscape.
An IT Leader's Guide to Implementing Digital Experience Monitoring
Follow these five steps to ensure a smooth implementation of DEM and fresh employee experiences.
6 Key Principles that Will Help Utilities Power the Future
By setting a vision that prioritizes people, technology and innovation, utility companies can meet rising energy demands and provide continuous services in increasingly unpredictable conditions.
MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN for the beginner
The article below covers VXLAN encapsulation and how MP-BGP is used to learn and forward layer two and layer three traffic across the encapsulation. To better understand the content, we recommended that readers have prior knowledge of BGP and the MP-BGP routing protocol. For those unfamiliar with these concepts, we suggest reading our foundational learning path's "MP-BGP for the beginner" article beforehand. It's important to note that MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN may initially seem intimidating, but this beginner's guide will clearly understand how it works. It's a technology that has gained popularity over the last few years, with many companies adopting it.
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The Army GEMSS EA is your one-stop-shop for Cisco network security, software, design and support services, and training. World Wide Technology is a Cisco Systems Gold Partner, combining our shared expertise to provide the U.S. Army with the latest Cisco products and innovations to serve the American Soldier.
Associate Academy
This Community Page illustrates and highlights key aspects of the various early in career programs the Global Workforce Enablement supports and serves as a centralized location of relevant topics for stakeholders.
Navy Digital Modernization Community
The Global Enterprise Modernization Software and Services (GEMSS) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a five-year Navy program designed to maximize the Department of the Navy (DON) investment in the use of existing hardware while supporting the smooth transition of ongoing software maintenance for upgrades and patches to software subscriptions for the Department of Defense infrastructures already in-place at installations worldwide.
Secure, All Together
Connect with other security professionals. Share knowledge, share jokes, meet new people and make the world a safer place.
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🔍 Haystack CTF: The Hunt for IOC's
Immerse yourself in the world of Intrusion Detection in our Cyber Range Blue Team Capture The Flag (CTF) game, Haystack. Your mission is to follow the trail of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and spot the tell-tale signs of cyber threats. It's a mix of fun, challenge, and learning - an experience you don't want to miss!
AI's Next Leap: Insights from NVIDIA GTC 2025
Bonus episode! Jensen Huang's keynote at NVIDIA GTC 2025 reinforced that we are entering a new phase of AI-driven enterprise transformation — signaling a shift from AI as a supporting tool to AI as a decision-making and autonomous agent. In this special episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we get quick-hit reaction from WWT experts on the ground at NVIDIA GTC 2025 — from new product announcements and its impact on the enterprise to innovative technology showcased on the floor and discussions behind the scenes.
The AI Factory Revolution: Engineering Away Resource Contention with F5, NVIDIA & WWT
Artificial intelligence (AI) has created unprecedented demand for computing resources, causing strain on existing infrastructure and creating bottlenecks that limit business transformation. AI factories are large-scale infrastructure for organizations looking to harness AI capabilities while managing resource constraints. NVIDIA's AI capabilities, F5's application security and delivery solutions, and WWT's consulting expertise create a powerful solution.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Okta Foundations
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop! During the event, the lab creator will introduce the Okta Foundations Lab, a premier capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This innovative lab provides an immersive virtual environment allowing participants to gain hands-on experience with the essential features of the Okta solution, free from the constraints of physical hardware.
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Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship Between Cloud and AI | Experts
The relationship between AI and cloud is increasingly sybmiotic. Growing investment in cloud is driving faster adoption and spend on artificial intelligence (AI), while the majority of AI applications are developed in the cloud. AI can be used to automate complex tasks in cloud computing, optimize system performance, and improve user experience; while cloud computing provides the computing resources and infrastructure needed to train and deploy AI models at scale.
Join Neil Anderson, who leads WWT's cloud and infrastructure practice, as he dives into the implications AI is having on cloud, and vice versa. Neil talks with detail about how AI is affecting cloud cost management and optimization, how IT leaders can secure use of AI in their cloud solutions, how high performance architectures needed to run AI will impact cloud strategies and common AI applications best suited for the cloud.
Mature Your Cloud Marketplace Capabilities to Drive More Value Out of Your Cloud Strategy | Research
Cloud marketplaces are designed to help optimize cloud costs. But for all the potential they offer, we've found our client base can struggle to extract the full value of cloud marketplaces.
Join WWT's Joshua Bushman and Lauren Fleming, both authors of the recently published Cloud Marketplace Maturity Model report, as they talk about a framework for simplifying, streamlining and scaling how organizations buy, deploy and manage cloud solutions across their business.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9: The Strategic Platform for Modern IT
Broadcom's upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) promises to be a game-changer, significantly advancing any enterprise's private cloud journey with its innovative features and capabilities.
Accelerating Cloud Adoption in the Public Sector
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How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core
There are numerous ways to clone an object in C# .NET Core. This article explores some of the approaches you can use to make a deep copy of an object and the pros and cons of each method.
How Unified Commerce Drives Smarter, Data-Driven Decisions | Experts
Great customer experiences increase loyalty, spurs growth and enables you to continue investing in technology to unlock even greater experiences. But too often, disjointed IT systems and siloed data stand in the way.
Join WWT Director of Digital Products Chris Douglas as he talks about how unified commerce ties it all together — breaks down silos across IT systems to provide visibility into customer data, e-commerce, order fulfillment, inventory management, customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale (POS) systems and more.
Maximizing Returns: AI Use Cases for Contact Center Success
AI is revolutionizing the way businesses interact with their customers. Here are the top ways that contact center leaders should leverage AI to yield the biggest ROI.
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How to Automate Everything Right: WWT's 6 Principles of Automation
Automation plays a critical role in our daily work, touching solutions that span technologies, partners and industries. In our many years of working with clients, we've identified six principles that can help organizations automate everything right.
High-Performance Architecture: An Engine to Drive Your AI Strategy Forward | Experts
Generative AI initiatives are taking flight across the world as organizations of all kinds explore new and innovative ways to put the disruptive technology to use. But has anyone stopped to think if their IT infrastructure is ready to meet the intense data demands required of advanced AI solutions?
Join Derrick Monahan, WWT's data strategy and high-performance architecture practice manager, as he talks about the vital nature of high-performance architecture — the merger of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI and machine learning (ML) workstreams into one architectural framework with the core IT infrastructure components needed to unlock the seemingly unlimited world of possibilities made possible by AI. Derrick also talks about the role of data and data governance, real world use cases being used in today's business landscape and ways you can put all of it into action.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infrastructure Source of Truth:Netbox
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.
Top Labs
Cyber Range - Initiation
Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.
CrowdStrike Proving Ground Lab
WWT's ATC CrowdStrike Proving Ground Lab exists to showcase the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's web UI and ability to alert on, and prevent, breaches using cloud data and machine learning.
Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Foundations
The Illumio Segmentation Lab is a demo intended to provide hands-on experience in performing both application dependency mapping and host-based segmentation using Illumio.
Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab
The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
NVIDIA Blueprint: PDF Ingestion
NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6, emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity.
The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
Arista EVPN VXLAN 101 Lab
This Arista MP-BGP EVPN Lab provides exposure to the new technology and capabilities of the products used. This lab introduces the Arista Cloud Vision Portal(CVP) and introduces students to the basics of building the VXLAN L3LS Underlay, MP-BGP overlay, MLAG, Asymmetric and Symmetric IRB, and eternal L2/L3 connectivity. It also provides an in-depth look at Arista Cloud Vision Portal(CVP) and how to use it for day 0,1 building and day 2 operations. 3 VXLAN EVPN scenarios based on best practices from the Arista design guides, ACE3 course material, Arista TAC support the Arista EOS forum posts. There are many different ways to create an Arista-based VXLAN EVPN fabric; these labs present a migration phase from a standard 3 tier VLAN and SVI-based network to a VXLAN fabric, Then the fabric changes to using Asymmetrical IRB and Symmetrical IRB. BGP routing is the underlay, overlay and connectivity to the remote data center under migration.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.3)
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Cisco's SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
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Enhance your cybersecurity resilience with XDR. Detect and respond to threats quickly, modernize SecOps, and defend against ransomware.
Partner POV | Cyber Threat Landscape Q&A with Trellix Head of Threat Intelligence John Fokker
In 2024, the cyber landscape shifted with more law enforcement actions, smaller ransomware groups, GenAI-driven misinformation, and rising hacktivism, leading to increased threats like data-targeting ransomware and disruption-driven attacks.
Partner POV | Reducing Your Attack Surface With Existing Endpoint Security Tools
The shift to hybrid data storage requires robust endpoint security and policy management to reduce risks and strengthen cybersecurity.
The State of Data Loss Prevention
Data Loss Prevention has regained prominence in recent years due to large scale breaches and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. Vendors with varying tech heritages have been lining up to employ new technologies and techniques against this seemingly never-ending problem.