Automate everything right

Organizations across every industry are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is already underway with multiple grassroots efforts.

But how do you connect siloed automation projects to a scalable automation strategy that drives business outcomes? 

It's tempting to try to automate everything. 

However, we've found that the secret to success is to automate everything right. This means prioritizing the correct things to automate and then automating them correctly. 

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Automation & Orchestration

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.
Article
• Oct 6, 2022
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Automation & Orchestration

6 Principles to Drive Automation Strategy | Research

Automation is gaining momentum and rapidly becoming a top priority for business leaders looking to drive growth, simplicity and efficiency. Yet developing a comprehensive automation strategy remains a struggle for many. The key lies in prioritizing the right automation initiatives and executing them effectively. Join WWT Principal Automation Architect Nick Thompson as he presents six fundamental principles to guide organizations on their automation journey. Whether you're just beginning or looking to enhance existing automation initiatives, Nick's expertise can help you build a successful automation strategy aligned with business goals, empower your teams, and ensure project success. Editor's note: This recording also features Tanner Bechtel, who no longer works at WWT.
Webinar
Apr 20, 2023 • 9am
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Automation & Orchestration

Evolving Supply Chain Operations with Automation

How an enterprise-wide automation strategy is allowing WWT to scale in the face of rapid growth.
Case Study
• Dec 8, 2022
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Automation & Orchestration

Simplifying IT Infrastructure to Drive Automation Efficiencies | Experts

Tasked with doing more with less, IT leaders globally are looking to scale automation projects to drive efficiency and productivity. Even more important than moving automation forward is moving the right automation forward. But as many are learning, this is easier said than done. Join WWT's Jim Stuckey, who leads our infrastructure automation practice, as he dives into why providing automated infrastructure is so critical to delivering good end-user experiences. Jim also talks about common use cases for automated infrastructure, outcomes gained from those use cases and considerations for building a culture that's ready to tackle it all. And who could forget — how is automation changing in the age of generative AI?
Webinar
May 30, 2023 • 9am

WWT Research

Actionable insights into technology solutions and trends that can help you make more informed decisions and outpace the competition. Log in to explore the latest automation reports.
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Automation & Orchestration

Automation Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for delivering enterprise-wide automation at scale.
WWT Research
• Mar 22, 2023
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Data Analytics & AI

Manage Generative AI Before It Manages You

When it comes to AI, governance and risk management should remain top priorities as IT leaders are being inundated with requests for how best to implement the technology.
WWT Research
• May 25, 2023
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AIOps

A Modular Approach to AIOps

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) continues to become more mainstream. Learn how a modular approach to AIOps allows organizations to better leverage data to drive efficiency.
WWT Research
• Nov 15, 2022

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Automation & Orchestration

How to Drive an Automation Strategy from the Bottom Up | Research

Automation has become a business imperative in the era of efficiency. And while sound automation strategy starts at the top, a bottom up, grassroots approach is equally important. It's likely that some form of automation is already underway at your organization. The challenge is: How do you scale automation efforts taking place below the radar?   Join WWT Technical Solutions Architect Dana Callear and Senior Director of IT Leadership Dave O'Toole as they talk about how leaders can sync executive strategy with automations that are already occurring within an organization. Dana and Dave also discuss the importance of identifying pockets of automation that can help drive scale and the role culture plays in making it all happen. 
Webinar
• May 18, 2023 • 9am
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Digital

A Great Employee Experience Hinges on Automation | Research

Automation in the digital workspace boils down to intelligently automating the right processes and eliminating friction so employees and IT are empowered to focus on more meaningful work and resolve issues faster. But to be clear: It's not about automating everything. It's about automating everything right.   Join Ivan Wintersteiger and Mike Cervasio of WWT as they talk about how automation is helping time- and budget-constrained IT departments do more with less. They'll also tackle automation challenges from an employee and IT perspective and provide practical steps you can take now to enable automation while detailing areas you should prioritize.  
Webinar
• Apr 27, 2023 • 9am

Case Studies

Find out how we've helped organizations across industries adopt automation programs that bridge IT and business to deliver successful outcomes.
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Automation & Orchestration

Evolving Supply Chain Operations with Automation

How an enterprise-wide automation strategy is allowing WWT to scale in the face of rapid growth.
Case Study
• Dec 8, 2022
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Customer Experience

Building a Modern, Elastic IT Infrastructure From Scratch for Elanco Animal Health

During a global pandemic, Elanco and WWT worked collaboratively to design, build and integrate an end-to-end IT infrastructure with the ability to scale and meet the evolving demands of the highly competitive animal health market.
Video
• 2:25
Jun 8, 2022
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AIOps

Airline Validates Integrated AIOps Monitoring Solution in the ATC

Learn how a WWT-led proof of concept, featuring ScienceLogic and AppDynamics, set this leading airline up for AIOps success.
Case Study
• Apr 22, 2022
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Infrastructure Automation

Midmarket Wireless Service Provider Accelerates Automation With WWT and Itential

Learn how WWT and Itential were able to drive automation deployment time from 12 weeks to 4 weeks — and help a midmarket company acquire carrier-grade automation on budget and on time.
Case Study
• Nov 5, 2020

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Automation & Orchestration

WWT Experts: Tanner Bechtel on the 6 Principles of Automation

Grab a quick dose of deep expertise with the WWT Expert series. In each episode, our host poses topical questions to a WWT Expert. Learn about the business solutions these experts have created, the technologies they've mastered and the trends they're seeing in the marketplace. All in 30 minutes or less. Many organizations are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is likely already happening with multiple grassroots efforts underway. But how do you connect siloed automation projects to a broader automation strategy that drives business outcomes? It's tempting to try to automate everything. However, we've found that the secret to success is to automate everything right. Specifically, we've found that six principles can help organizations close the gap between automation strategy and project execution.
Webinar
• Oct 27, 2022 • 1pm
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Automation & Orchestration

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.
Article
• Oct 6, 2022
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Software Development

Postman API Tests Collection: Run With Docker Compose

As Quality Engineers, we want the test environment setup to be quick and easy. And the test runs to be isolated and repeatable. Using Docker to run the tests can help achieve these goals. Here is a brief primer about creating a Postman tests collection and then running it with Docker Compose.
Article
• Jan 21, 2022
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Automation & Orchestration

How to Drive an Automation Strategy from the Bottom Up | Research

Automation has become a business imperative in the era of efficiency. And while sound automation strategy starts at the top, a bottom up, grassroots approach is equally important. It's likely that some form of automation is already underway at your organization. The challenge is: How do you scale automation efforts taking place below the radar?   Join WWT Technical Solutions Architect Dana Callear and Senior Director of IT Leadership Dave O'Toole as they talk about how leaders can sync executive strategy with automations that are already occurring within an organization. Dana and Dave also discuss the importance of identifying pockets of automation that can help drive scale and the role culture plays in making it all happen. 
Webinar
May 18, 2023 • 9am
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AIOps

Experience the transformational difference of your AIOps Journey

Learn how WWT and Cisco help enable smart, comprehensive AIOps initiatives.
eBook
• Jul 19, 2022

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Infrastructure Automation

Windows Management With Ansible

To keep up with the growing speed of business demands, there's a pressing need to make programmability and automation an inherent part of operational IT processes. WWT offers hands-on Ansible Automation Training Labs to help customers learn how to get started using centralized automation tools to manage and deploy configurations.
Foundations Lab
333 launches
Infrastructure Automation

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity 6.1 using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into Ansible Tower to understand how they work together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.
Advanced Configuration Lab
661 launches
Infrastructure Automation

NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.
Advanced Configuration Lab
765 launches
DevOps

Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift for Developers

This lab shows developers how to deploy their applications to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 (OpenShift), the premier Enterprise-level container platform based on Kubernetes. Leveraging the Source-to-Image feature, the lab provides hands-on instructions on migrating non-containerized, and various levels of containerized applications to OpenShift.
Foundations Lab
240 launches
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Infrastructure Automation

Automation Foundations

The Automation Foundations learning path is designed to prepare infrastructure architects and engineers for the journey toward automation. Automation in practice includes a broad ecosystem of skills beyond the specific language or system chosen to automate or orchestrate. This learning path targets building that ecosystem of skills to ensure your automation journey is successful. The fundamental skills covered in this learning path include Linux operating system concepts, setting up your development environment, version control and collaboration features, formats for your data, and application programming interfaces. Each concept covered in this learning path is coupled with both content and hands-on exercises to solidify the knowledge.
Learning Path
Infrastructure Automation

Introduction to Version Control

Introduction to version control...
Foundations Lab
76 launches
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Automation & Orchestration

6 Principles to Drive Automation Strategy | Research

Automation is gaining momentum and rapidly becoming a top priority for business leaders looking to drive growth, simplicity and efficiency. Yet developing a comprehensive automation strategy remains a struggle for many. The key lies in prioritizing the right automation initiatives and executing them effectively. Join WWT Principal Automation Architect Nick Thompson as he presents six fundamental principles to guide organizations on their automation journey. Whether you're just beginning or looking to enhance existing automation initiatives, Nick's expertise can help you build a successful automation strategy aligned with business goals, empower your teams, and ensure project success. Editor's note: This recording also features Tanner Bechtel, who no longer works at WWT.
Webinar
Apr 20, 2023 • 9am
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Automation & Orchestration

Embracing Automated Platforms that Drive Efficiency, Simplicity and Scale | Experts

Businesses across the world are turning to automation to drive efficiency and simplicity. But for many, automation doesn't work as quickly or seamlessly as they'd like. In most cases, that's because leaders are thinking of operations from an operations and infrastructure perspective. There's a third equally critical component — automated platforms — that must be considered. Join WWT Senior Practice Manager for Automation Phillip Palmer as he discusses how automated platforms relate to other core areas of automation, such as infrastructure and operations. Phillip also talks about the teams and roles that stand to be most impacted by automation initiatives and how organizations can work toward automation unlocking a self-service model moving forward.
Webinar
Jun 20, 2023 • 9am
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AIOps

Revolutionizing Engineering: A Framework for Generative AI Development | Briefing

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT stand to fundamentally shift the way software developers work and dramatically increase output. In fact, the technology has the potential to make anyone with an idea into a coder. But what guardrails and best practices should IT leaders and engineers be implementing so as to not jeopardize the business? Join WWT's Eric Jones, David Lowe and Kevyn Gandaho as they dive into how they've begun to build a framework for generative AI development that focuses on four key pillars: security, responsibility, accountability and rigorous experimentation. They'll also provide live demos of apps that can be built on top of large language models (LLMs) and how tools like ChatGPT can help accelerate development work in the future.
Webinar
Jun 14, 2023 • 9am
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AIOps

Cisco AppDynamics & WWT Partnership

By combining WWT's global technology expertise and the AI-powered technology of Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO), our customers can realize the power of making real-time, customer-centric decisions.
Video
• 2:04
Jun 2, 2023
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AIOps

AIOps Strategic Roadmap Workshop

WWT will lead a customized, interactive session to identify your unique challenges and ambitions regarding AIOps transformation and performance monitoring capacity; deliverables include a high-level, post-workshop brief and prioritized roadmap outline to support your next steps.
Workshop
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AIOps

AIOps Strategic Services Roadmap

WWT will lead a customized, interactive session to identify your unique challenges and ambitions regarding AIOps transformation and performance monitoring capacity; deliverables include a high-level, post-workshop brief and prioritized roadmap outline to support your next steps.
Workshop
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Cloud Optimization

Harnessing the Power of Generative AI: Why Cloud Cost Optimization is Key

Learn why cloud cost optimization best practices are critical to the long-term success of generative AI applications in the workplace.
Article
• Jun 1, 2023
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Infrastructure Automation

Building an Automation Stack @ Red Hat Summit 2023

Customers of World Wide Technology (WWT) have access to over 250 technology labs on demand. Discover how Event-Driven Ansible contributes to the provisioning of some of our new, on-demand labs.
Video
• 20:13
May 31, 2023
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Automation & Orchestration

Simplifying IT Infrastructure to Drive Automation Efficiencies | Experts

Tasked with doing more with less, IT leaders globally are looking to scale automation projects to drive efficiency and productivity. Even more important than moving automation forward is moving the right automation forward. But as many are learning, this is easier said than done. Join WWT's Jim Stuckey, who leads our infrastructure automation practice, as he dives into why providing automated infrastructure is so critical to delivering good end-user experiences. Jim also talks about common use cases for automated infrastructure, outcomes gained from those use cases and considerations for building a culture that's ready to tackle it all. And who could forget — how is automation changing in the age of generative AI?
Webinar
May 30, 2023 • 9am
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Automation & Orchestration

AnsibleFest 2023

This year, AnsibleFest will take place at Red Hat® Summit in Boston May 23-25, harnessing all that Red Hat technology has to offer in a single place. To give you even more tools to address your automation challenges, you can check out what's next in infrastructure, app development, edge computing, cloud services, and other enterprise IT essentials—all while exploring the entire Red Hat ecosystem. ***This event is for informational purposes only, the WWT team will be onsite in Boston.***
Experience
May 23, 2023 • 8am
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Server Infrastructure

Cisco Intersight Workshop

Cisco Intersight provides intelligent cloud-based infrastructure management with embedded analytics for the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Cisco HyperFlex platforms. This platform offers an intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify and automate their environments in more advanced ways than the prior generations of tools.
Workshop
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Automation & Orchestration

How to Drive an Automation Strategy from the Bottom Up | Research

Automation has become a business imperative in the era of efficiency. And while sound automation strategy starts at the top, a bottom up, grassroots approach is equally important. It's likely that some form of automation is already underway at your organization. The challenge is: How do you scale automation efforts taking place below the radar?   Join WWT Technical Solutions Architect Dana Callear and Senior Director of IT Leadership Dave O'Toole as they talk about how leaders can sync executive strategy with automations that are already occurring within an organization. Dana and Dave also discuss the importance of identifying pockets of automation that can help drive scale and the role culture plays in making it all happen. 
Webinar
May 18, 2023 • 9am
Infrastructure Automation

GraphQL Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals

GraphQL is a query language for the API that is flexible and efficient. Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
Foundations Lab
8 launches
Infrastructure Automation

Cisco Ansible Automation Lab

Welcome to WWT's Introduction to Network Automation and Programmability Lab. The intended goal of this lab is to introduce network architects and DevOps engineers in taking the first step to automate, simplify and streamline the provisioning and configuration of networking platforms such as Cisco IOS XE and Cisco Nexus.
Foundations Lab
2626 launches