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Follow-on agreement expands centralized software management, technical support and modernization capabilities across Army operations
Why 82% of Your AI Coding Budget Isn't Shipping Software
AI can now write code and accelerate development, but using AI tools isn't the same as becoming AI-native. Recorded at Cisco Live, this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast features Cisco SVP and Chief Product Officer of the Cisco Security Product Management organization Raj Chopra, WWT SVP of Global Solutions and Architecture Brian Ortbals and WWT VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger discussing how AI is reshaping development and transforming the enterprise.
From Alerts to Outcomes: Modernizing the SOC with WWT and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Join World Wide Technology (WWT) and Palo Alto Networks for an immersive Partner Spotlight virtual event dedicated to advancing Security Operations and SOC excellence. This exclusive session digs into the Palo Alto Networks Cortex product portfolio, with a special emphasis on Cortex XDR. Experts from both organizations will explore how Cortex XDR empowers security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. Attendees will gain actionable insights into integrating Cortex solutions for holistic threat management and operational agility within modern SOCs.
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Partner POV | Everpure Unveils Data-Primacy Architecture for the AI Era
New Everpure Data Intelligence enables discovery, context, and governance at the source—turning fragmented enterprise data into an automated, AI-ready foundation.
Partner POV | Rethinking Data Security in the AI Era
AI's rapid data creation introduces new risks, challenging traditional security models. Instead of adding more tools, build a robust foundation with modern connectivity, metadata context, and normalized classification. Harmonize policies and shift focus from monitoring users to protecting data assets. Embrace AI for automation, freeing teams for critical judgment calls.
Partner POV | Predictive maintenance: The critical enabler for AI data center liquid cooling systems
As AI data centers push thermal limits, traditional cooling and maintenance strategies fall short. Liquid cooling's rise demands predictive maintenance, leveraging real-time data and AI for efficiency and reliability. Schneider Electric's EcoCare for Cooling exemplifies this shift, promising reduced downtime and extended equipment lifespan. Embrace data-driven strategies for future-ready infrastructure.
Partner POV | The Cognitive Campus Blueprint for Enterprise Networking
Arista Networks unveils transformative innovations for the Cognitive Campus, addressing enterprise networking challenges with Arista VESPA for large-scale mobility, AI Ops for zero-touch operations, and ruggedized platforms for consistent security. This unified approach enhances network reliability, reduces complexity, and empowers enterprises to focus on innovation over infrastructure management.
Partner POV | Edge Computing for Smart Manufacturing
Edge computing revolutionizes manufacturing by enabling real-time AI-driven decisions, reducing latency, and enhancing operational resilience. As factories become more autonomous, integrating edge with cloud and on-premises systems is crucial. Manufacturers must prioritize latency-sensitive tasks, streamline data flow, and standardize architectures to scale efficiently and maintain competitive advantage.
Partner POV | Fortinet Expands FortiEndpoint with New Capabilities for the AI Era
New innovations delivered through one agent, one console and one license help security teams safely enable AI adoption, strengthen data security, improve risk visibility and simplify operations
Workload Identity Fundamentals and Credential Management in Microsoft Entra
This article follows one workload, a nightly sync job, through its entire life in Microsoft Entra ID: how it's created, how it proves its identity, what it's allowed to touch, and where each of those breaks down in practice. The point isn't the mechanics in isolation; it's how a weak credential, a broad permission, and an unwatched lifecycle add up to real risk.
Special Olympics: From Paper Schedules to the Most Ambitious App in USA Games History
Using AI, WWT built the Champions app to deliver more than anyone thought possible for every athlete, coach and family in attendance.
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Army GEMSS Digital Modernization Community
The Army GEMSS 2.1 contract is your one-stop-shop for Cisco network, collaboration, security, data center, and Meraki software licensing. Army GEMSS also includes design and support services and Cisco education & training. World Wide Technology is a Cisco Preferred 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 II (GEMSS II) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a one-year program following the GEMSS 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.
JavaScript Development
Whether you're looking to start from scratch, add a new framework or library to your tool belt, or wanting to share your opinions on the latest and greatest in web development, this is the place for you! Find articles, discussions, and links to external resources for all things JS here at WWT.
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What is the Fortinet Security Fabric?
Fortinet's Platform, the Security Fabric, is a strong network and security solution at all levels. The Platform combines the principles of convergence and consolidation to deliver comprehensive, real-time cybersecurity protection spanning users to applications.
How to Use ARMOR: A Guide to AI Security Transformation
ARMOR, a vendor-agnostic AI security framework, offers comprehensive guidance across six domains to secure AI deployments and protect against dynamic and fast-moving threats.
CrowdStrike CTF: Falcon
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE REACH OUT TO DANIEL.HARTNAGEL@WWT.COM
CrowdStrike delivers a unified platform approach to modern security so you can protect and build your future. This game incorporates several new features of CrowdStrike, offering a unique opportunity to test your skills against the latest in cybersecurity technology.
Tools utilized within the game:
🔷Crowdstrike Falcon (EDR tool, end point protection and analysis)
🔷Crowdstrike Logscale (History and logging)
🔷CrowdStrike Cloud Security
🔷CrowdStrike Identity Threat Protection
This is a mixed capture the flag style event that will require you and your team to zero in on malicious actors inside of a network, identify vulnerable or outdated services, and brace yourself for a real-time series of cyber attacks. Points will be awarded for finding those exploits, remediating them to the best of your ability and defending Iron Guardian's network.
WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE)
WWT's Demonstration lab for industrial IT/OT collaboration
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Healthcare Company: Cloud Object Storage Custom Sandbox
A US Healthcare Company addressed their CloudPools issue in days instead of weeks by leveraging the capabilities of WWT's ATC and lab services portfolio.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
Cloud Center of Excellence: The Missing Engine Behind Scalable Governance and Enterprise Cloud Success
Stop managing cloud. Start driving results.
Private Cloud: What Teams Get Wrong (and How to Fix It)
Private cloud sounds simple until you sit in the room where the decisions get made. Everyone agrees they want it — but everyone means something different. That's where things start to drift. Teams buy hardware, timelines get tight, and suddenly the foundation is poured before anyone agrees on what the cloud is supposed to deliver.
Trending in Digital Transformation
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.
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.
WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE)
WWT's Demonstration lab for industrial IT/OT collaboration
Why 82% of Your AI Coding Budget Isn't Shipping Software
AI can now write code and accelerate development, but using AI tools isn't the same as becoming AI-native. Recorded at Cisco Live, this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast features Cisco SVP and Chief Product Officer of the Cisco Security Product Management organization Raj Chopra, WWT SVP of Global Solutions and Architecture Brian Ortbals and WWT VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger discussing how AI is reshaping development and transforming the enterprise.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Healthcare Company: Cloud Object Storage Custom Sandbox
A US Healthcare Company addressed their CloudPools issue in days instead of weeks by leveraging the capabilities of WWT's ATC and lab services portfolio.
Data: The Forgotten Ingredient to Automation and AI Success
Holistic automation and AI capabilities are possible when organizations mature their data practices.
Most Data Centers Aren't Ready for AI
You can buy the GPUs but that doesn't mean you can run them.
Across the enterprise, AI investment is accelerating but the infrastructure behind it is lagging further than most teams realize. Power ceilings are being hit. Cooling systems are stretched. Floor space and rack density are becoming real constraints. And in many cases, organizations are discovering these limits after the hardware shows up.
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.
Top Labs
Cisco AI Defense Capture the Flag (CTF)
Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
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.
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.
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.
WWT Agentic Network Assistant
Explore the WWT Agentic Network Assistant, a browser-based AI tool that converts natural language into Cisco CLI commands, executes them across multiple devices, and delivers structured analysis. Using a local LLM, it streamlines troubleshooting, summarizes device health, and compares configs, demonstrating the future of intuitive, AI driven network operations.
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 6.1(3f), 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)
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.
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.
Partner Spotlight
Tanium
Built for the demands of highly distributed, complex, and modern endpoint-era networks, the Tanium architecture turns decentralization and scale into an advantage.
Tanium Integrated Lab
Tanium Integrated Lab
Experience the transformative power of Tanium's Autonomous Endpoint Management at WWT's Advanced Technology Center. This integrated lab showcases real-time automation, enhancing IT operations and cybersecurity. Discover how Tanium, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Security solutions synergize to accelerate threat detection and response, shifting cybersecurity from reactive to proactive for robust resilience.
Autonomous Endpoint Management: Next-Gen Endpoint Visibility Fueling SecOps and IT Ops with AI
Modern enterprises face challenges in managing complex IT environments. Tanium's Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) platform offers a unified solution, combining real-time visibility with AI-enhanced decision-making. By breaking down silos and automating processes, AEM transforms endpoint management, enabling proactive risk mitigation and reducing incident response times, ultimately reshaping IT and security operations.