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Unlocking the Power of AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants are transforming software development by boosting productivity, enhancing code quality and facilitating continuous learning. These tools not only automate repetitive tasks but also provide insightful guidance, enabling developers to work smarter and more creatively.
How VCF 9.1 Consolidates the Management Plane into a Single Unified Platform
VCF 9.1 revolutionizes VMware Cloud Foundation by consolidating four appliances into a unified VCF Management Services platform, enhancing operational simplicity and efficiency. This architectural shift demands careful upgrade planning but promises streamlined management and centralized observability, making the transition a worthwhile endeavor for VCF 9.0.x users.
HPE Private Cloud AI - Behind the Curtain Part 2 - NVIDIA Blueprint
In this post, we will pick up where we left off in the first HPE Private Cloud AI Behind the Curtain to explore a journey we had here at WWT installing an NVIDIA Blueprint. We will detail some of the steps to accomplish and how using HPE Private Cloud AI's system helps speed the process along.
Introduction to XQL: Writing Your First Query
Learning a new programming or query language can be daunting, but if you've used the boolean options in a web search engine before, you can master XQL queries in no time. Like with web searches, we start with a hypothesis of our search, add filters to limit our results, and then validate the results that are returned against our hypothesis.
Safety Off, Capability On: The Ceiling Is Temporary
We tested an abliterated Qwen 3.8 27B model with its safety guardrails fully removed. It wrote ransomware in 18 seconds but could not produce a single CVE exploit. The boundary was model capability, not safety. One sentence in the prompt determined whether the model produced a complete weapon or nothing at all.
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Nexus One and the AI-Ready Data Center: A Conversation Between WWT and Cisco
Nathan Litz and Michael Witte talk with Cisco's Vimala Veerappan and Sai Natarajan about Nexus One architecture and how it brings a common operating model, embedded security and AI-ready silicon to the data center.
The Quantum Risk to Your Network Lives in the Handshake
A quick primer on three WWT Research Notes on post-quantum cryptography in networking, distilled for the people who approve the budget.
Who Controls Your Connectivity? The Infrastructure Risks Behind the FCC's Proposed Rules
The FCC's proposed changes to international Section 214 authorizations spotlight the critical dependencies in telecommunications infrastructure. By enhancing scrutiny on carrier ownership and cybersecurity practices, the draft aims to fortify network security. Organizations must understand these complexities to support operational resilience and adapt to evolving regulatory landscapes.
From One Neuron to AI Agents: The 80-Year Story of Agentic AI
Today's AI agents plan, act and finish work on their own. Agentic AI feels brand new, but it didn't appear overnight. Each ability rests on a breakthrough that came before it. Follow the 80-year chain of ideas, from a 1943 brain-cell model to AI that plans, acts and gets work done.
Paving the way for frontier security: Microsoft's Integrated SOC (ISOC) arrives in Defender.
Microsoft's Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) in Defender entered public preview September 23, unifying XDR, SIEM, threat intelligence, automation and AI in one portal. This WWT brief explains what changed, how it completes the picture Project Perception and MDASH started, and what leaders must settle before they scale it.
Making the Invisible Visible: eBPF Observability for Cloud-Native 5G
Explore how WWT and F5 are bringing kernel-level observability to cloud-native 5G environments. This blog examines how F5 BIG-IP eBPF Observability delivers real-time visibility into containerized network functions and highlights practical applications across DNS monitoring, network function registration and discovery, and end-to-end traffic troubleshooting.
The Case for Bringing Your LLMs Home
Enterprises should treat self-hosted models as a serious option for sustained, high-volume AI workloads. The strongest strategy combines owned infrastructure with cloud APIs, guided by workload economics. Self-hosting reduces long-term costs for workloads that run for four or more hours daily, while cloud APIs suit bursty demand. Local deployment offers privacy and control but requires honest budgeting for hardware and expertise.
FinOps for AI: A Four-Phase Playbook for Governing AI Spend (Part III of IV)
Enterprises often mistake dashboards for AI cost management systems. WWT's four-phase playbook enables effective AI spend governance. Learn how to avoid the maturity trap by treating dashboards as a starting point, not the endpoint, of governance.
Veeam Data Platform 13.1
Veeam Data Platform 13.1 revolutionizes data protection with multi-hypervisor support, identity recovery and platform hardening. It addresses hypervisor migration, identity-centric threats and hybrid estates, offering cross-platform recovery, automated Active Directory Forest Recovery and post-quantum cryptography. This release transforms backup infrastructure into a strategic asset against evolving enterprise challenges.
Proofpoint Protect 26
Proofpoint Protect 26 brought more than just San Diego sunshine, it peeled back the curtains on what Proofpoint has been up to since it threw its hat in the AI security ring at last year's conference.
Drift happens: Building the Foundation for OT Security in Power Utilities
Most utility security programs get built in the wrong order. Firewalls, monitoring platforms and segmentation projects go in first. The basic question comes up later, usually during an audit or an incident: what is actually on the network, and is it still configured the way we approved? Three fixes: asset inventory, configuration baselines and drift detection.
NetApp AFX 2K - What's New in AFX for Scalable AI Storage
NetApp debuted a small but significant upgrade to its storage platform for intensive data and AI workloads. Now available as a new system or an upgrade, AFX 2K delivers an impressive performance boost with ATC-proven capabilities. Read on to learn what's new and why AFX 2K could be the right platform for your data.
A Practical Guide to Getting AI Systems Into Production
Most AI projects never reach production, and it's rarely the model's fault. This post breaks down the engineering patterns AWS, Google Cloud and Azure have converged on: safe deployment for non-deterministic systems, RAG versus MCP, and why identity and governance matter more than model choice. A blueprint for closing the gap between what fails and what ships.
Beyond First-Class Agent Identity: The Four Tests That Actually Matter
Giving AI agents identities is only the beginning. Effective agent governance requires rapid attribution, revocation, reconstruction and continuous evaluation. This article examines four practical measurements that separate first-class agent identity from simple inherited permissions and explores how security architectures can support accountable agent operations.
Retail Infrastructure Standardization: A Velocity Strategy, Not a Cleanup Project
Store estates accumulate variance through remodels, acquisitions and emergency fixes, and that variance quietly sets the pace and price of every technology rollout. Standardizing deliberately, rather than treating it as a cleanup project, changes the calculus.
Retail Infrastructure Standardization: From Strategy to Operational Capability
Turning a standardization strategy into an operational capability comes down to three disciplines: defining a small set of store archetypes, managing designs as versioned and validated products, and measuring convergence continuously.
Board-Level Guidance for When Technology Disruption Becomes a Financial Risk
Business interruption, not data loss, drives the costliest cyber incidents. Ten board-level governance changes for the age of agentic AI.
From AI Answers to AI Outcomes: What Glean:GO Signals for Enterprise Leaders
A firsthand perspective from a virtual attendee at Day 1 of Glean:GO, exploring what the announcements signal for the next phase of enterprise AI.
The Observability Gap in the Mythos-class Era
You cannot defend an estate you cannot see. As agentic AI with frontier models (Mythos) raises the stakes, immature asset inventories, missing telemetry and unknown dependencies are the gap adversaries will exploit. This article examines why observability and data foundation gaps are a real attack surface, and why security and IT operations must close them together.
VMware Explore 2026: Key Takeaways
VMware Explore 2026 emphasized modernization, private AI and cyber resilience, highlighting a phased approach to infrastructure transformation. Organizations are urged to integrate AI responsibly, enhance security and align modernization with business priorities, ensuring stability and innovation. This strategic roadmap balances existing investments with future demands, fostering a resilient, adaptable enterprise environment.