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Inside the AI Factory: Dell's AI Data Platform
Rather than chasing GPUs and one-off pilots, Dell's Allen Clingerman and World Wide Technology's Matt Halcomb argue that the winning AI "factories" will be built on use-case clarity, data sovereignty and flexible, end-to-end infrastructure that can keep pace with a fast-moving market.
Executive Foreword: AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR)
WWT's ARMOR framework provides a practical and comprehensive AI security model. By embedding security from chip to cloud, ARMOR ensures resilience, enabling organizations to innovate confidently and achieve strategic goals in an interconnected, AI-driven landscape.
How SR-MPLS Is Changing the Way We Think About IP Networking
Learn how SR-MPLS, or Segment Routing Multiprotocol Label Switching, changes the way we think about traditional IP networking.
Optical Data Center Interconnect: Connecting Your Data Centers With Private DWDM Technology
Optical Data Center Interconnect (DCI) provides a cost saving, high density, flexible alternative to leased circuits for connecting geographically separated data centers.
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Forbes' 40th Annual List Of America's Top Private Companies
World Wide Technology holds the 18th position on the publication's list.
St. Louis Men's Group Against Cancer Raises $925,000
The nonprofit's annual Men's Dinner fundraiser supports local cancer charities; since its inception in 1969, STLMGAC has raised more than $6 million for organizations serving the community.
NAF Welcomes Distinguished Leaders to Board of Directors, Strengthening Mission to Prepare Future-Ready Graduates
New Members Include Executives from Guardian Life and World Wide Technology
America's Dream Employers 2025
More than 266,000 data points were considered, and each employer was given a score. The 500 companies with the highest scores made Forbes' list.
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Partner POV | The critical role of software in modern data center operations and AI infrastructure
The data center landscape is transforming with advanced software, digital twins, and AI-driven automation, enhancing design, construction, and operations. This evolution ensures unprecedented reliability and efficiency, crucial for AI integration and sustainability. As data centers become business-critical, software innovations are pivotal in optimizing performance, reducing risks, and driving sustainable growth.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) - Multi-Region Fabric Lab
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Multi-Region Fabric (MRF) Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the advanced MRF features of Cisco's SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) - Multi-Region Fabric Sandbox (20.12)
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Multi-Fabric (Hierarchical SD-WAN) Sandbox 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 MRF solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Partner POV | Armis Exposure Management & Security on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU
Armis and NVIDIA's collaboration revolutionizes Cyber-Physical System security with an agentless solution on BlueField-3 DPUs. This innovative approach enhances visibility, threat detection, and operational continuity across IT and OT environments, addressing legacy vulnerabilities and sophisticated threats without impacting performance, ensuring robust protection and seamless deployment.
REST Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals
Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
Container Basics for Automation Engineers
This lab is intended to teach the consumer functional skills related to utilizing containers in the realm of automation.
CICD for Automation Engineers
This lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation Automated Testing learning path in the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series. The goal of this learning path is to provide hands-on and practical exposure to the concepts of implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery.
The lab will utilize Gitea as the Source Code Manager (SCM) which includes Gitea Actions for executing CICD Workflows. Gitea Actions map almost identically to GitHub actions so the Gitea specific knowledge gained maps directly to GitHub implementations. The general concepts learning through this lab are also valuable and applicable across other implementations.
Introduction to Ansible Molecule
Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Molecule in this hands-on lab, designed to introduce learners to automated testing for Ansible roles and playbooks. Participants will gain practical experience in setting up test scenarios, running Ansible Molecule's various stages from the command line, and integrating Ansible Molecule with a CICD pipeline.
Suggested Communities
Army GEMSS Digital Modernization Community
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.
Tribal Community
This community brings together technical leaders within the Tribal communities to foster forward-thinking and innovative solutions with practical implementation.
Trending in Security
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.
CrowdStrike CTF: Falcon
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.
Inside the AI Factory: Why Cisco Believes Security Will Define Our AI Future
Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind.
Former NSA Cyber Director on the Emerging AI Threat Landscape
AI-powered nation-state cyber threats have entered a new phase. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Head of National Security and Critical Infrastructure Madison Horn joins former NSA Director Rob Joyce to break down what's changed and why business leaders should be paying close attention.
Trending in Cloud
Consumer Lender Standardizes on Cloud Backup
Product comparison accelerates selection of cloud storage solution.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
Inside the AI Factory: Why Cisco Believes Security Will Define Our AI Future
Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind.
Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza on the New Math of Enterprise AI
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza explains why enterprises are shifting from experimentation to intentional, top-down AI deployment. and why a strong data strategy now determines who captures real value.
Trending in Digital Transformation
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.
How Forward-Thinking Leaders Integrate Culture and Tech to Amplify Organizational Success
How can my organization become a great place to work? This is a common question we hear from clients of WWT. While there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to culture, the most successful organizations integrate company culture with advanced technology to leverage data-driven insights and drive measurable business outcomes. Join WWT's experts Joe Berger, VP of Digital Experiences, and Krista Bush, VP of Global Employee Experience, as they discuss a framework for creating a sustainable and resilient company culture — a framework that has placed WWT on the Great Place to Work® list for 13 years running.
How Actionable Data is Powering Smarter Operations at Jack in the Box
See how Jack in the Box is using its modernized point-of-sale system to unlock real-time data insights, drive operational efficiency and empower every level of the organization — from corporate leaders to restaurant managers.
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.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
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.
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.
6 Steps to Understanding Cisco ACI
When understood, these six concepts will help anyone new to ACI to understand a more detailed technical discussion.
Data: The Forgotten Ingredient to Automation and AI Success
Holistic automation and AI capabilities are possible when organizations mature their data practices.
Top Labs
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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)
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.
Intro to Segment Routing Lab
MPLS has been around for over two decades and is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing has taken the stage to replace MPLS because it accomplishes the same as MPLS but is less complex, extremely robust and can be scaled without limitations. This lab will introduce you to the basics of Segment Routing.
Partner Spotlight
Logitech Inc
Logitech designs software-enabled hardware solutions that help businesses thrive and bring people together when working, creating and gaming. As the point of connection between people and the digital world, our mission is to extend human potential in work and play, in a way that is good for people and the planet.
Overview: AI in the meeting room with Logitech + Microsoft
Logitech AI-powered devices for Microsoft Teams ensure all meeting participants can clearly see and be seen, hear and be heard, and collaborate better. See how Logitech + Microsoft achieves meeting inclusivity with artificial intelligence.
How WWT Designs Multi-Vendor Meeting Rooms at Enterprise Scale
Transform enterprise collaboration with WWT's proven expertise in scalable, integrated meeting room design.
Logitech Rally Board 65 and Microsoft Teams Overview
See how Rally Board 65 is being deployed across Logitech's headquarters from open areas and huddle spaces to modular rooms and traditional meeting spaces. Learn how its flexible design supports different Microsoft Teams Room setups, including Express Install.