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Case Study VMware Cloud Foundation

NGINX Accreditation 101

The first in a series of NGINX labs intended for educational and workshop purposes. Topics covered here include installation, load balancing, custom access logs, cache proxies, API live monitoring and dynamic configurations.

Jul 5, 2022

1 min read

Article Optical Networking

Top 5 Most Common Routed Optical Networking Myths

As routed optical networking takes off, everyone is gathering education across multiple resources. With all of this information, there can be some misconceptions. Let's unravel some of these common myths.

Jun 30, 2022

10 min read

Modernizing IT for West Coast Utility Provider

Learn how WWT helped a large utility provider with its aging infrastructure and multicloud journey.

Jun 29, 2022

4 min read

Cribl Foundation Lab

Cribl Stream is an observability pipeline tool living between any data source and any destination. These destinations can be systems of analysis (Splunk, Elastic, etc.) or systems of retention (S3 buckets, Data Lakes, etc.). Stream uses Sources, Destinations, Routes and Pipelines to move data coming from data sources, processes through its pipelines (group of functions) and sends the results to one or many destinations in the format that is best for the environment and its use cases.

Jun 29, 2022

1 min read

Article Contact Center

If You Don't Measure It, You Can't Change It

You're on a phone call with a call center about a service issue and the call seems to be taking longer than expected. You can't tell, but please understand that the service company is calculating this "wait time" metric. Not only this metric, but they are also basically tracking everything that can be measured -- because measuring operational performance is inherent in contact center operations.

Jun 27, 2022

5 min read

Intro to MPLS Using LDP

MPLS has been used for over two decades. It is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. This lab provides a hands-on lab environment that will familiarize the user with the primary routing configuration of MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) with LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) running on Cisco routers.

Jun 27, 2022

1 min read

Article Poly Room Solutions

How Effective Meetings & Collaboration Can Help You Retain Employees

As organizations struggle to retain employees during the Great Resignation, employee experience–especially with meetings and collaboration in a hybrid workforce–can make all the difference.

Jun 27, 2022

12 min read

Nokia Routing Hardware Lab

This lab demonstrates Nokia routing using MPLS on 7750 Service Routers, 7250 Interconnect Routers and 7210 Service Access System.

Jun 27, 2022

1 min read

Trending in Security

Article Cyber Resilience

Now is the Time to be Cyber Resilient

Even with the best cybersecurity tools available, there are no guarantees. With a proper cyber resilience strategy, you can bounce back safely, quickly and reliably should a hostile or disruptive attack occur. Here are some key considerations for maintaining a cyber resilient enterprise.

May 16, 2022

7 min read

5 Networking Priorities for 2022

A guide to help organizations make the architectural advancements required to deliver new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

Apr 7, 2022

1 min read

Article OT Security

Securing Industrial Control Systems

A look at the different types of defense in depth tools and techniques that can be used to protect Industrial Control Systems.

Oct 16, 2019

8 min read

Article Consulting Services

Five Considerations for Successful Identity and Access Management Architecture

Discover the five considerations needed to effectively incorporate Identity and Access Management (IAM) into your business.

Jul 2, 2019

7 min read

Trending in Cloud

Article Cloud Data Management

5 Networking Priorities for 2022

A guide to help organizations make the architectural advancements required to deliver new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

Apr 7, 2022

1 min read

Top 8 Trends in Data Storage for 2022

WWT storage industry experts dive into eight data storage trends, based on customer insights, testing in the ATC and OEM partnerships.

Mar 28, 2022

10 min read

Article Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Security Service Edge (SSE): What Happened to the "A" in SASE?

Understand the SSE in SASE. Here's a high-level overview of Gartner's updated terminology.

Mar 9, 2022

5 min read

Article Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Release Watch: VMware's New vRealize Automation 8 and vRealize Cloud

Learn how a new SaaS option and dev changes should influence your decision to upgrade a market-leading cloud automation platform.

Dec 18, 2019

9 min read

Trending in Digital Transformation

5 Networking Priorities for 2022

A guide to help organizations make the architectural advancements required to deliver new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

Apr 7, 2022

1 min read

Article OT Security

Securing Industrial Control Systems

A look at the different types of defense in depth tools and techniques that can be used to protect Industrial Control Systems.

Oct 16, 2019

8 min read

Article Consulting Services

Five Considerations for Successful Identity and Access Management Architecture

Discover the five considerations needed to effectively incorporate Identity and Access Management (IAM) into your business.

Jul 2, 2019

7 min read

Event experience

NVIDIA AI Technical Exchange

NVIDIA will provide a technical dive into NVIDIA AI and Data Science S/W with information on how to get started from end user to the enterprise. NVIDIA will demo accelerated python libraries and analytic models that end users can leverage for free with certain H/W. They will also showcase available options to try out their enterprise offerings via NVIDIA's Launch Pad. This event will take place in person at World Wide Technology's DC Innovation Center and is a first come first serve event. Register early as spots fill up quickly. We don't want you to miss out!

Jun 23, 2022 • 1 pm (CDT)

Trending in Infrastructure Modernization

Article Primary Storage

10 Steps You Can Take Now to Address Major Data Challenges

Learn how your organization can address exponential data growth, application modernization and data management in a multicloud environment, cyber recovery and security, and tracking time to value.

Jan 21, 2021

6 min read

Article Cloud Data Management

5 Networking Priorities for 2022

A guide to help organizations make the architectural advancements required to deliver new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

Apr 7, 2022

1 min read

Top 8 Trends in Data Storage for 2022

WWT storage industry experts dive into eight data storage trends, based on customer insights, testing in the ATC and OEM partnerships.

Mar 28, 2022

10 min read

Article Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

5 Criteria for Evaluating SASE Solutions

The rapid rise of SASE has led to a lot of confusion. Here's how IT leaders can cut through the noise to find the best SASE solution for their organization.

Jun 14, 2021

4 min read

Top Labs

Lab Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

The Cisco 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.

Nov 13, 2019

2 min read

Cisco ACI 5.0 Virtual Simulator Lab

The ACI 5.0 Simulator is designed to give our customers a chance to experience the new ACI 5.0 release, from initial connectivity and setup through best practice fabric configuration and VMM integration. You can also launch this environment to utilize automation tools (Postman) to configure and interact with the APIC.

Jul 22, 2020

2 min read

Cisco ACI Module 1 - ACI APIC Setup, Best Practices Lab and Tutorial

Cisco's ACI Anywhere vision is to allow a single security and connectivity policy with a single pane of glass to manage all multicloud environments. The key to ACI Anywhere is the ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO), which allows the administrator to create consistent security and connectivity policies across multiple physical, virtual and cloud-based sites. This series of 4 lab modules will go through all the steps necessary to bring up an ACI Multi-Site environment from scratch. It will be divided into modules for the student to easily consume.

May 18, 2020

3 min read

Lab Development Platforms

Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage

Welcome to Pure Storage's Portworx lab for persistent container storage. Portworx's Enterprise Storage Platform is a complete storage and data management solution for your Kubernetes environments. Containers will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multicloud migrations and more.

Mar 7, 2022

1 min read

Featured News

Transforming "Pain into Purpose" to Help Cancer Patients

Throughout my cancer journey, I've experienced first-hand the impact learning, mentoring and giving back has on cancer patients' lives and wellbeing.

Jun 29, 2022

7 min read

World Wide Technology Launches Inaugural Public Sector Women in Technology Symposium At 2022 KPMG Women's PGA Championship

WWT's Public Sector Women in Technology Symposium was designed to recognize and highlight some of the top women making a difference in the technology and innovation space within the Public Sector.

Jun 29, 2022

2 min read

Why WWT Is 'Leaning Into' Hybrid, Remote Work Long-Term

CRN: World Wide Technology CEO Jim Kavanaugh explains his workforce vision for WWT and why the term 'The Great Resignation' isn't very accurate.

Jun 22, 2022

2 min read