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.
Introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 Series GPUs
The AMD Instinct™ MI350 Series GPUs set a new standard for Generative AI and high-performance computing (HPC) in data centers
Featured News
WWT EVP On VMware VCF 'AI Factory In A Box' And Broadcom Relationship
Bob Olwig takes a deep dive about his company's relationship with Broadcom and its plan to drive customer adoption of VMware's new VMware Cloud Foundation 9.
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.
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Fostering responsible AI: How WashU is building a smarter approach to risk and governance
When AI usage increased across departments, Washington University in St. Louis needed a way to manage it responsibly without slowing innovation. Learn how WWT helped the university assess its AI risk posture, align stakeholders and build a plan for a scalable governance framework.
Partner POV | Stage 3 on a journey to the Self-Driving Network™: recommendations
Juniper Networks' journey to a Self-Driving Network™ leverages AI to transform network management from reactive troubleshooting to proactive optimization. By integrating AI-Native recommendations, IT teams enhance user experiences and network reliability, paving the way for autonomous networking.
Partner POV | Speed, scale, and cost reduction: What's new in Horizon 8 with Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Horizon 8's 2406 release revolutionizes VDI deployment with Amazon WorkSpaces Core, offering automated provisioning, flexible scaling, and cost-saving power management. Deliver desktops faster and manage them efficiently with enhanced features, ensuring a seamless user experience while optimizing infrastructure costs.
Partner POV | A journey to the Self-Driving Network™ is built on trust in AI
Embark on a transformative journey to the Self-Driving Network™, where AI and automation revolutionize networking. Like self-driving cars, networks evolve through stages, building trust and enhancing reliability. Discover how AI augments human capabilities, enabling smarter networks and freeing IT teams to innovate.
Nile Innovation and Service Differentatiation
Bob Hrbek discusses the WWT and Nile partnership and what is Network-as-a-Service from the Nile perspective.
Partner POV | The AI Arms Race: When Attackers Leverage Cutting-Edge Tech
AI's dual role in cybersecurity is reshaping the landscape, with criminals leveraging advanced AI models for sophisticated attacks. From AI-enhanced phishing to deepfakes, these tools create highly personalized, convincing threats. As AI evolves, its potential for misuse grows, challenging organizations to stay ahead in this escalating cyber arms race.
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.
Partner POV | Why is data center networking so broken?
Data center networks are plagued by human error, poor visibility and complexity. Outages aren't just frustrating; they're symptoms of a deeper issue. The way we manage networks is fundamentally broken.
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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
Updated calendar appointments were sent due to a correction in the scheduled time—and it's a win for everyone. Based on player feedback, we've extended the session to 8 hours to give teams enough time to compete, collaborate, and complete all challenges.
While speed still counts (with First to Finish up for grabs), we know some teams want time to dig deeper. Whether you wrap up in 4 hours or stay the full 8, this update gives you flexibility without sacrificing the thrill of competition.
This red team-style CTF puts you in the role of attackers breaking into an emulated internal network. You'll need a team of 3–4 players ready to hunt for vulnerabilities, decrypt systems, and disable key services.
Bonus: Meet Willa, your new AI teammate offering tips, insights, and live support when you need it.
Let's go—more time, more tools, more chances to win.
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.
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.
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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Mature Your Cloud Marketplace Capabilities to Drive More Value Out of Your Cloud Strategy | Research
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
Broadcom's upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) promises to be a game-changer, significantly advancing any enterprise's private cloud journey with its innovative features and capabilities.
Jersey Mike's: Securely Scaling Cloud Capabilities to Meet Demand
Learn how WWT accelerated Jersey Mike's cloud journey with a new cloud foundation and reimagined mobile app that delivers a new digital experience to customers.
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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.
Modernizing the Point of Sale at Jack in the Box to Drive Efficiency, Insights and Growth
Discover how Jack in the Box is rapidly transforming its point-of-sale infrastructure to elevate the guest experience and empower franchisees with real-time, data-driven insights.
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.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Modernizing the Point of Sale at Jack in the Box to Drive Efficiency, Insights and Growth
Discover how Jack in the Box is rapidly transforming its point-of-sale infrastructure to elevate the guest experience and empower franchisees with real-time, data-driven insights.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Partner Spotlight
Vertiv
Vertiv provides equipment and services for data centers, along with cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network.
Partner POV | The road to agentic AI: Enabling the next era of AI-driven innovation
Agentic AI is revolutionizing work by autonomously managing tasks, enabling human creativity and strategic focus. As AI evolves, infrastructure must innovate to support its potential, demanding a workforce skilled in both technology and creativity. Explore how AI-ready data centers are reshaping industries and preparing for an agentic AI future.
Avocent ACS Advanced Console Server Lab
The Avocent ACS Advanced Console Server is a 1U appliance used by network, server and data center administrators to manage their serial-based infrastructure via SSH or Telnet. The ACS Advanced Console Server supports accessing the serial infrastructure both in-band and out-of-band. Using an RJ-45, DB-9, or DB=25 cable connection, ACS Advanced Console Server's IP address, by SSH redirection, or pass-through, or by out-of-band connection through an external cellular (4G LTE) or internal analog modem. The flexibility of these options makes the ACS an excellent tool for customers to remotely and security access their IT equipment.
Partner POV | Integrated maintenance bypass in UPS systems: Addressing downtime and space efficiency
Downtime costs can exceed $100,000, making continuous power crucial. Integrated maintenance bypass switches in UPS systems, like Vertiv's Liebert® GXT5, optimize space and ensure seamless operations during maintenance. This innovation transforms routine power maintenance into a strategic advantage, enhancing efficiency and minimizing disruptions in space-constrained environments.