AI Unplugged: Insights from the Frontlines of Enterprise AI Adoption
AI deployment and adoption is complex — our AI Proving Ground Podcast makes it attainable with practical, actionable insights. New episodes released every week.
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Inside the AI Coding Revolution: Tools, Tradeoffs and Transformation
As AI innovation intensifies, one domain is already feeling the impact: software development. In this episode, WWT experts Nate McKie and Andrew Athan explore how AI-powered coding assistants are improving developer productivity and reshaping enterprise engineering. From Copilot to agentic tools capable of autonomous code generation, they examine how organizations are navigating this transition, balancing speed with quality and redefining the role of human developers. Whether you're leading a dev team or charting your company's AI roadmap, this is a must-listen for understanding the real-world implications of AI in engineering.
Why NOC Transformation Fails—And How to Get it Right
Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes to Set Your NOC Project Up for Success
As organizations strive to modernize their operations, Network Operations Center (NOC) transformation has become a strategic imperative. But despite its importance, many NOC transformation projects stall—or fail outright. At World Wide Technology (WWT), we've seen the pitfalls firsthand, and we know what it takes to avoid them. Below, we break down the most common reasons NOC transformations fail—and how to overcome them.
AWS Summit DC 2025: Cloud, AI and the Building Blocks of Public Sector Transformation
The 2025 AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC, brought together leaders from government, education and nonprofits to talk about how cloud and AI are reshaping how agencies serve the public. The time for asking if the government should adopt the cloud is over. Now the focus is on how to use the cloud to leave a lasting impact. For World Wide Technology, this event was a powerful reminder of our role in helping public sector teams make the most of the cloud.
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Welcome MeriTalk's 2025 AI Honors Award Winners
MeriTalk is delighted to recognize the 2025 class of AI Honors Award Winners, who are shaping the ongoing revolution in government IT service.
Intel Brings Offline AI, Opportunity to Students in Guatemala
The solution is designed to be scalable and affordable, allowing for expansion to new schools, subjects, countries and languages.
America's Greatest Workplaces in Tech 2025
Newsweek: The companies highlighted here demonstrate how prioritizing workplace satisfaction can prove advantageous both for their employees and themselves.
G42 establishes Europe & UK subsidiary, eyes AI infrastructure growth
The establishment of the new entity follows G42's increasing presence in Europe, which includes recent announcements of data centres and compute clusters in France and Italy.
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What AI Winners Know: The Build Matters More Than the Model
Despite ambitious AI goals and massive investments, many organizations are watching their initiatives stall before they ever deliver impact. In this episode of WWT Presents Research, Robb Boyd is joined by data scientist Ina Poecher and cloud architect Zaid Elkhateeb to explore why so many AI projects fail before the first model ever runs and how to change that. Discover how forward-thinking enterprises are closing the gaps between data science ambition and operational reality. Because real AI success doesn't start with a model, it starts with getting the groundwork right.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.5)
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.
JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Cryptographic Failures
The JuicedShop series is designed to explore the capabilities of Burp Suite and web application testing. Divided into shorter, palatable CTF games, the JuicedShop series features the vulnerable Juice Shop web application. These challenges provide an opportunity to apply web application testing methodologies in a live environment for real-world use cases.
Overview: Panduit UPS - Protecting Critical Systems Globally
UPS systems from Panduit offer reliable, scalable power solutions while protecting critical applications worldwide. In today's fast-paced world, ensuring uninterrupted operations is paramount and that's where Panduit UPS systems come into play. You can rely on our UPS devices to provide immediate backup power during outages to maintain business continuity and protect critical IT equipment.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A): The Future of Enterprise AI
Agentic AI systems have the potential to work together, but not yet at scale. This episode breaks down two emerging standards — Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication. Both promise modular AI integration, safer data flows, and agentic collaboration that actually scales. WWT engineer Sally Jankovic and AI advisor David Geddam explain why these protocols are becoming essential infrastructure for enterprise AI.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.16.x)
This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology include Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 20.16.1/17.16.01a code.
Partner POV | Rapyd Secures APIs to Protect Payment Innovation
In this case study, Akamai demonstrates their ability to revolutionize global payments by securing APIs with unparalleled visibility and automation. They empower the customer to mitigate risks, ensure compliance, and confidently expand into new markets, transforming API security from a black box into a transparent, manageable asset. Discover how this synergy fuels secure, rapid growth.
Discover the Power of TAROT
WWT's Earl Dodd breaks down the Transformative Autonomic Resilient Operations Technology (TAROT) framework, a powerful tool for downstream oil and gas organizations.
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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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🚩Disarm Me CTF: Hack, Decrypt, Disable — Featuring Willa
This is a red team style capture the flag event that puts you and your team in the role of hackers trying to break into an emulated internal network. Assemble a team of 3 to 4 players ready to dig into vulnerabilities, decrypt systems, and disable key services before time runs out.
This time, you'll have Willa on your side. Willa is a new AI teammate built to guide you through the game with real-time tips, helpful insights, and resource suggestions. She can even flag a live proctor if something needs attention. Whether you're stuck on a flag or just need a nudge, Willa has your back.
Get ready to think like an attacker, act fast, and work as a team.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Red Team Tools with Bloodhound
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop! During this exclusive session, the host will introduce Red Team Tools Bloodhound and Impacket that are within the Security Testing Suite learning path. These mini-labs walk users through post-exploitation security tools that they may use during a Cyber Range red team event. This learning path will teach you the fundamentals of comprehensive penetration testing tools such as Bloodhound, Impacket and other tools like Mimikatz and BurpSuite.
Secure All Together: 5 Principles for Building a Culture of Cybersecurity
Cyber adversaries are becoming more skilled — and more ruthless. Protecting your organization requires a team approach within organizations, with the broad partner ecosystem and across all industries.
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.
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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.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
VMware Cloud Foundation 9: The Strategic Platform for Modern IT
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Modernizing the Point of Sale at Jack in the Box to Drive Efficiency, Insights and Growth
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Scaling AI Across the Workforce to Empower Every Employee
In 2024, organizations laid the groundwork for AI transformation, and now in 2025, it's time to cement your AI strategy. Join WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis as they share insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace Priorities research report. You'll hear their unique perspectives on treating AI like a new employee and guidance on transitioning from proof-of-concept to organization-wide AI implementation so you can empower every employee.
Why Digital Experience Monitoring is a Strategic Move for IT Leaders
Learn what digital experience monitoring is, how it can improve the employee experience, and what you can do now to get started.
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Scott Data Embraces AI Transformation to Offer GPU as a Service
Learn how a data center leader partnered with WWT to validate and execute a strategic vision for providing on-demand access to the advanced high-performance infrastructure required to run today's most demanding AI workloads.
Why Digital Experience Monitoring is a Strategic Move for IT Leaders
Learn what digital experience monitoring is, how it can improve the employee experience, and what you can do now to get started.
Data: The Forgotten Ingredient to Automation and AI Success
Holistic automation and AI capabilities are possible when organizations mature their data practices.
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.
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)
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.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.5)
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.
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.
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 9800 Foundation Lab
This lab guide is intended for administrators who are responsible for deploying and configuring Cisco IOS-XE solutions. Participants should have at least a basic understanding of WLAN concepts. It is assumed that participants have at least a working understanding of fundamental wireless concepts as well as Cisco technology.
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Juniper Networks
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Partner POV | Delivering Unbeatable AI-Native Networking Experiences with Data Center Cloud Services
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AI-Driven Networks: The Future Is Now with Juniper's Chief AI Officer, Bob Friday
Are we on the verge of a major transformation in networking? In this episode of Meet the Chief, Juniper Chief AI Officer Bob Friday, a trailblazer in the world of AI in networking, discusses the future of AI integration into enterprise systems. From the shift of AI from a research topic to a tangible tool for enterprises, to how automation is revolutionizing network management, this event will explore key industry insights you won't want to miss.
Intent Based Networking with Juniper Apstra
This lab will enable a student to build a basic Multi-Site fabric using Apstra for complete end-to-end connectivity.