Automation & Orchestration

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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Infrastructure Automation

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

5 min read

WWT Experts Series

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 • 1 pm (CDT)

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

12 min read

WWT Experts Series

How to Use Data to Build Momentum and Kickstart Your Automation Journey

Facing an uncertain economic landscape, most business and IT leaders are being asked to reduce complexity and do less with more. So, it's not surprising to see many turning to automation as a viable path forward. But automation is tricky. What should you automate? How should you prioritize use cases? And when is the right time to go all in and automate everything? The simple answer is: You don't need to automate everything. You need to automate everything right. Join WWT Expert Mark Wall as he talks with Matt Coble about why data and automation make such a great combo, why automating the things you hate doing isn't necessarily the right strategy and why many IT teams are turning toward automation platforms that can easily pull from or bring in other parts of the organization.

Webinar

Jan 17, 2023 • 9 am (CST)

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Director, Automation

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DevOps and Automation Architect

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WWT and Audacy collaborated to build a robust, data-centric technology platform that forges deeper connections with its personalities and brands while leveraging an innovative business model to monetize content.

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WWT, F5, and Red Hat: Partners in Modern Application Security

Learn how WWT, F5, and Red Hat partner closely to help customers automate, scale, and secure application workloads across hybrid cloud environments. F5 and Red Hat jointly deliver high-performance applications with automated, protected, and optimized workflows.

Webinar

May 04, 2023 • 10 am (CDT)

AIOps

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Many organizations struggle to deliver seamless digital employee experiences (DEX) that empower employees to work securely from anywhere. In this briefing, you'll learn how to create, monitor and optimize fresh experiences that improve employee productivity, engagement and empowerment.

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Inside the ATC

Inside the ATC Automation: Skills Development

We're back with another round of Inside the ATC, with Automation experts Nick Thompson & Tyler Hatton. This series highlights the most recent content, labs, experts and case studies around a particular topic you can find on our Advanced Technology Center Digital Platform, wwt.com. There's a lot there and we want to help you find what you really need, wherever you are in your Automation journey.

Webinar

Apr 05, 2022 • 10 am (CDT)

Infrastructure Automation

Hands-On F5 Ansible Automation Workshop

Join World Wide Technology for a hands on workshop around Red Hat® Ansible Tower automation with our industry experts and the value it brings to your organization! In order to keep up with the speed of business, there is a pressing need to make programmability and automation an inherent part of operational IT processes. During this hands-on workshop, experts from WWT will demonstrate how a centralized automation tool can be used to programmatically configure devices and deliver applications across multiple platforms.

Experience

Jun 24, 2021 • 11 am (CDT)

Infrastructure Automation

Hands-On Pure Storage and Ansible Automation Workshop

Join World Wide Technology for a hands-on workshop around Pure Storage and Ansible Automation with our industry experts and the value it brings to your organization! 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.

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Oct 27, 2021 • 1 pm (CDT)

Infrastructure Automation

Hands-On Pure Storage and Ansible Automation Workshop

Join World Wide Technology and Pure Storage for a hands-on workshop around Ansible Automation with our industry experts and the value it brings to your organization! 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.

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Mar 22, 2022 • 10 am (CDT)

Test Automation

Path to Production Workshop

Organizations must deploy changes more frequently in an automated and predictable way to meet the market's current demands. Modern application delivery practices provide the ability to get new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments into production with speed, safety and stability.

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TEC37

TEC37 E21: How to Add Automation to IT Operations: Do You Want to be a Robot or Learn How to Build Robots?

Traditional IT operations can turn skilled people into robots who have to perform the same operationally-critical, yet time-consuming tasks over and over. All the while, it seems there is never time to work on the most strategic projects for your organization. What if you could build your own "robots" to do the repetitive work for you, so you could have time to do the things you really want to do? Infrastructure automation is your robot army, waiting for your orders! Adding automation to your IT operations skillset is absolutely doable, even though it might sound intimidating. Where do you start? What should you learn? What are the most important things to know? Host Robb Boyd and our expert panel will answer these questions and more, so you have the tools you need to make your automation robots come to life.

Webinar

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TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E01: Breeding Unicorn Employees

We are bringing back some of our favorite TEC37 episodes! In this TEC37 encore, we will discuss how we have noticed a demand in job postings looking for the mythical Unicorn; the person that automates everything, bleeds devops, and judges people by the stickers on their laptop. How do you find these Unicorns? Simple, you breed them.

Webinar

Jan 28, 2021 • 1 pm (CST)

TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E02: Ansible vs Terraform? Which is Better and Why?

Ansible and Terraform are some of the leading tools for automating infrastructure and driving infrastructure as code. In this session experts from each side will discuss the foundations for a successful automation strategy and where each tool fits in a larger automation strategy.

Webinar

Feb 17, 2021 • 12 pm (CST)

TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E03: Leveraging Cisco Products to Build an AIOps Ecosystem

We are bringing back some of our favorite TEC37 episodes! In this TEC37 encore, join host, Robb Boyd and WWT's Tanner Bechtel, Chris Weis and Neil Anderson as they discuss how WWT has developed a true AIOps reference architecture, and a strategy that leverages a multi-product and product agnostic approach to an AIOps Ecosystem.

Webinar

Mar 01, 2021 • 1 pm (CST)

TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E04: AIOps and the Current State of Today's Technology

We are bringing back some of our favorite TEC37 episodes! In this TEC37 encore, we are taking a technical dive into the AIOps & APM space, bringing in experts to discuss our partnerships and the technical complexities we deal with in today's world.

Webinar

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TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E05: Connecting Automation Islands: A Primer

Automation is no longer an option. It is inevitable. Everywhere you look the promises of automation are well documented and splashed all over the media. Go faster! Spend less! Optimize resource! Increase revenue! In this TEC37 our WWT experts, Tanner Bechtel - Director of AIOps and Phillip Palmer, Practice Manager along with TEC37 host, Robb Boyd, will discuss how to break down the barriers of disparate automated systems so you can begin to connect your automated islands.

Webinar

Apr 13, 2021 • 12 pm (CDT)

Inside the ATC

Inside the ATC Automation: Infrastructure Automation

We first developed the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) as a place for people to get their hands on cutting-edge technology. Now we're unlocking this ecosystem and putting all the research, results, tools and expertise in the hands of customers and partners everywhere around the world. Automation is top of mind for nearly everyone as we continue to digitize the world around us, driving scale and mitigating risk. Treating infrastructure as code, developing intent-based multi-OEM systems and leveraging test automation for infrastructure are some very common use cases organizations are doing today. No matter if you are looking to get started or looking to accelerate your current automation efforts, we will discuss how the WWT ATC can provide access to hands-on labs, content, code and experts to move you forward quickly.

Webinar

Aug 24, 2021 • 11 am (CDT)

WWT Experts Series

WWT Experts: Mark Wall on Infrastructure Automation

In this session from the WWT Experts series, we will hear from Mark Wall who represents WWT's expertise around infrastructure automation. We'll present Mark with top questions facing those working on infrastructure automation programs and learn from his hands-on experience working with WWT customers across several industries. Join us for this WWT Experts session!

Webinar

Sep 02, 2021 • 11 am (CDT)

TEC37

TEC37 A&O Series E06: Automation Islands: DevSecOps Shouldn't Exist

DevSecOps should not exist: DevOps is not being done right unless there is a pervasive focus on security. The overarching goal is to build and operate secure software; to write secure code and defend deployed applications. Security is not a matter of if, it's when. During this TEC37, our experts will explore how security is integrated throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle process and why this is important for companies leveraging modern applications.

Webinar

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Inside the ATC

Inside the ATC Automation: AIOps

We first developed the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) as a place for people to get their hands on cutting edge technology. Now we're unlocking this ecosystem and putting all the research, results, tools and expertise in the hands of customers and partners everywhere around the world. By utilizing the ATC for advanced research and development, WWT has created one of the world's most sophisticated AIOps environments. WWT utilizes machine learning, advanced event correlation, and full-stack observability platforms to create real-time interoperability, root cause analysis, and self-healing automation; all built on top of an enterprise-grade, hybrid application environment, complete with network traffic, cloud platforms, and security management and monitoring.

Webinar

Oct 26, 2021 • 11 am (CDT)