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ATC Lab Services

ATC Lab Services

An incubator for innovation

Our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is unlike any other testing and research lab. We call it an ecosystem. You'll call it the first place your engineers go for exclusive resources, guidance and tools.

The ATC is a collaborative ecosystem to design, build, educate, demonstrate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions for WWT customers, partners and employees. With it, we've helped our customers do amazing things. For example, one major oil company was able to reduce the time it took to evaluate complex object storage from six months to two weeks.

Our virtual lab connects engineers to the ATC when they're working on-site. The ATC portal makes it easier for your team, WWT engineers and our partners to collaborate, design and test solutions in sandbox environments, 24/7.

Cut your proof of concept time from months to weeks, if not days, by leveraging the ATC's testing and automation infrastructure.

On-demand labs

WWT has created a growing number of on-demand labs of common technology configurations and integrated solutions. One click connects you to hundreds of product and integrated solution demos, all hosted by experts who walk you through the basics.

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Accelerate decision making

Our complete portfolio of Lab Services can reduce the cost, time and risk that comes with technology evaluation and testing. The services available within our ATC include a variety of offerings: on-demand labs, product comparisons, proofs of concept, product benchmarking, architectural design validation, functionality testing and lab as a service.

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Product comparison

Use our product comparison capabilities to receive timely, unbiased results when comparing technology solutions.

You're in the driver's seat when it comes to the features, functionality and performance of the products being compared. We'll collaborate to develop a high-topology test plan and test cases that document objectives, setup, steps, procedures and expected results.

After design, build and test phases, you'll receive an observed-results report for each test case. If a product is selected, we'll discuss steps toward design validation.

 

 

Product benchmarking

Product benchmarking tests whether a vendor's product functions as advertised. We stress test products under production-level workloads with elements of your environment incorporated into the test plan.

Benchmarking can help you right-size hardware and software for your environment. It can also save you money if it shows you need to purchase less of a given technology.

Refine your technology lifecycle with the enhanced understanding of scalability that comes from properly benchmarked products.

 

 

Design validation

Engage us for design validation to understand how newly introduced technology will affect your brownfield environment. Our testing focuses on performance, stability, failover, scalability, operations and manageability.

We mimic your infrastructure, from compute through networking, to create a full-stack representation of your production environment. 

Design validation is often based on customer configurations and custom designs that have not been validated by a vendor. But even if you're implementing less specific designs or OEM-validated ones, you can still use our validation services to get an unbiased, third-party opinion.

 

 

Functionality testing

Functionality testing generally takes place in a custom sandbox where your organization's engineers get hands-on access to products in an environment that reflects the major aspects of your own. Learn the critical components of building, troubleshooting and operating a given product based on test cases that matter to you. Functionality testing can help you decide whether you want or need to explore a solution more thoroughly through a formal proof of concept in our ATC.

 

 

Lab as a Service

Lab as a Service (LaaS) secures your organization dedicated lab space within the ATC, built to your unique performance, security and access requirements. It simplifies and streamlines the rapid prototyping and provisioning of multi-OEM topologies for evaluation, testing and proof of concept.
 
Keep pace with the speed at which OEMs release new code by using LaaS for regression testing and accelerated product certification. Gain peace of mind that unstable code won't be introduced to your production environments, and let your skilled engineers focus on production activities instead of tedious QA tasks.

Make LaaS the foundation for how you manage the lifecycle of your technology investments.

 

 

Proof of concept

Proof of concept environments enable customers to evaluate the introduction of new technology, existing investments and upgrades to determine if they will positively affect their organization and achieve desired business objectives. Proofs of concept leverage infrastructure from the ATC's pre-built environments as well as hardware and software from strategic partners and OEMs.

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A Platform and Ecosystem to Make the Right Technology Decisions Faster

Make smart technology decisions fast, and mitigate the risk inherent in solving complex business challenges with even more complex technology solutions.

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.

Hands-On Lab Workshop: LLM Security

In this event, you will gain the knowledge and tools to identify, mitigate, and prevent security risks, strengthening the reliability and security of your AI systems. WWT's Prompt Injection and Training Data Poisoning labs help users understand and defend against two major LLM security threats. The Prompt Injection Lab demonstrates how attackers manipulate LLMs with deceptive inputs to extract sensitive data or execute unintended actions, while the Training Data Poisoning Lab explores how corrupting training or retrieval data can introduce biases , vulnerabilities, or backdoors.

How to Assess the Maturity of Deepfake Detection Tools in the AI Proving Ground

Learn how WWT's AI Proving Ground enables organizations to rapidly test, compare and validate the latest deepfake audio detection solutions from a growing roster of AI SaaS vendors.

The WWT Industry Solution Center (WISC), an Introduction

The WWT Industry Solution Center (WISC) is a state-of-the-art facility within WWT's ATC that simulates industrial technology environments to demonstrate the possible ways to digitize, monitor and secure the architecture and its control systems.
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