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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.
Cisco SR-MPLS or Cisco SRv6 uSID: Choosing the Right Path for Your Network
A deep-dive comparison of Cisco's two Segment Routing implementations — SR-MPLS, built on the proven MPLS data plane, and SRv6 uSID, built natively on IPv6 — where they diverge, where they excel and how to choose the right path forward.
AI Habits for a Sustainable Future
AI is one of the most powerful tools we have today. But like any powerful tool, it comes with responsibility. This Earth Day, WWT's Global Green Teams and Sustainable Softchoice collaborated to take an honest look at one responsibility that often goes unnoticed: the actions we users can take to reduce AI's impacts on our environment.
AI Security: Practicing Good Model File Security
As organizations continue to incorporate AI solutions into their workflows and user toolset, the requirements for securely creating, acquiring and storing large AI model files have grown significantly. This blog post explores the risks presented by third-party AI model files and best practices to guard against those risks.
Beyond Log Reduction: AI and the Future of Security Data Strategy
The data pipeline space has evolved far beyond simple log reduction and transformation. As organizations look to AI to solve complex problems without adding cost or headcount, Security Data Pipeline Platforms are emerging as the foundation of a true data strategy. This article explores three key findings from a three-month vendor evaluation, uncovering how AI is reshaping log reduction through intelligent feedback loops, enabling autonomous pipeline health monitoring, and dramatically accelerating data onboarding, turning what once took days into a matter of minutes.
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Understanding Check Point's Management Hierarchy: From MDS to SMS to Gateway
Understanding Check Point's architecture—Gaia OS, Security Gateway, and Security Management Server—is crucial for effective deployment and troubleshooting. This article demystifies these foundational concepts, highlighting the separation of policy enforcement and management, and the scalability offered by Multi-Domain Management, essential for large organizations and service providers.
Cloud Management Platforms Drive Cost Savings and Sustainability
Optimizing cloud usage can help organizations reduce costs and environmental impact. Cloud platforms are often more efficient than traditional data centers, but still consume significant energy, making visibility into usage, spend and emissions essential. This article reviews Cirrus Nexus, Greenpixie and OptiCloud, leading tools for measuring emissions and aligning FinOps with sustainability goals, plus how WWT's cloud carbon reports help clients get started.
Bears. Beets. SASE. A Dunder Mifflin Guide to OT Security
SASE was built for IT, but that doesn't mean it has nothing to offer OT environments. This article uses everyone's favorite paper company to break down the difference between the two worlds, where SASE actually fits in an OT network, and how to start building a security strategy that works for both.
Locking the Front Door: The Physical Security Gap Hiding in Plain Sight
This post explores how physical security has evolved into a converged discipline with cybersecurity, AI and security operations. It explains why detection alone is not enough and why organizations need to connect people, processes and platforms to build a holistic security model that turns alerts into action.
Stop Defending at the Refusal Boundary
AI safety measures hinder defenders while attackers bypass them, creating a cybersecurity imbalance. Programs like Anthropic's CVP and OpenAI's TAC aim to empower vetted defenders. The challenge is to enable defenders without restricting them, ensuring AI tools aid rather than obstruct security efforts.
The Watch Problem: Who Catches What the Autonomous SOC Misses
The autonomous SOC is coming. That's not the debate. The debate is what happens to the analysts who were supposed to catch what the AI can't, and whether anyone is building the doctrine before we find out the hard way.
Why Exponential Thinkers Will Win the AI Economy
Exponential thinkers will dominate the AI economy by recognizing AI's transformative potential beyond mere technology. They leverage AI to create compounding advantages, redesign operating models and build adaptive systems. This strategic foresight enables them to outpace competitors, turning AI into a catalyst for continuous learning and growth.
Access Is Access: Why Physical Security Belongs in the Identity Conversation.
Physical security and identity security have always governed the same people. They just never operated that way. This article explores why the separation between badge access and digital identity creates one of the most overlooked governance gaps in enterprise security today, and what it takes to close it.
The VCF 9.1 Upgrade, Step by Step: What Actually Happens
Embark on a transformative journey with the VCF 9.1 upgrade, where architectural evolution meets meticulous planning. This guide navigates the intricate steps, from upgrading VCF Operations to deploying containerized management services, helping make the transition seamless. Prepare for a leaner, unified management plane, but remember: precision in preparation is key.
Before You Upgrade to VCF 9.1: What You Need to Have Ready
VCF 9.1's upgrade is transformative, retiring the Fleet Management Appliance for a Kubernetes-based runtime. This guide details essential pre-upgrade steps, from IP planning to pre-flight checks, to help create a smooth transition. Prepare meticulously, as management visibility gaps and irreversible changes await. Part 2 will explore the execution phase.
Building an Automation Framework
Discover the transformative potential of automation with our comprehensive Automation Framework. By integrating industry-leading tools like NetBox and Ansible, we streamline operations, enhance cross-functional collaboration and drive innovation. This framework empowers organizations to achieve strategic goals, optimize AI integration and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
The Tokenomics of AI Native Engineering: Engineering the Cost Model
The patterns, model routing strategies, infrastructure options and engineering practices that bring AI native development costs under control.
The Tokenomics of AI Native Engineering: The Cost You Didn't Budget For
The productivity case for AI-Native Engineering is real. So is the API bill. How you architect your model usage, including which model handles what, when you escalate and what you cache, is becoming as important as the code itself.
Building Agent Systems on Small Local Models
Inside an enterprise network you often can't send data to a hosted model, and a local frontier model is too expensive to run. A ~30B model is the practical sweet spot, but it hallucinates, its knowledge is thin and its usable context is short. Here's how to build a real agent on top of it anyway.
Trust but Verify: Rethinking AI Risk from Pilot to Production
With generative AI, the edge no longer comes from having the best model. It comes from knowing when to trust the model's output.
Essential to AI Performance: KV Cache Solutions from Vendors & Academia
In large-scale inference, transformers' KV memory demands surpass model weights, challenging GPU resources. Innovative KV management strategies, like TurboQuant and TriAttention, offer post-training solutions to optimize memory use without sacrificing accuracy. Storage vendors, including WEKA, KOVE, DDN, VAST, NetApp and Pure are productizing the same offload pattern, each at a different point on the latency/cost/operability curve. These advancements, crucial for cost-effective AI deployment, demand continuous attention from architects to maintain competitive edge.
EEI 2026 Highlights Affordability, AI Adoption, and Interconnection as Top Utility Priorities
World Wide Technology attended EEI 2026 in Las Vegas, where affordability, AI adoption, grid interconnection and workforce development dominated the conversation. Utilities are under pressure to absorb unprecedented load growth without raising customer rates. WWT has the solutions to help, from AI-powered grid planning to strategic resourcing, and left with new relationships and momentum heading into the second half of 2026.
Agentic AI in Life Sciences Manufacturing
Every life sciences application is quietly shipping AI agents inside routine upgrades; no strategy meeting required. This replays the ERP sprawl mistake, only faster and quieter, and this time touching GxP decisions regulators expect to trace. We predict that by 2027, it will be everywhere. The fix is deciding, now, who owns the architecture and who owns the agent.
The Model Isn't the Story. The Response Time Is.
AI-driven vulnerability discovery is exposing a new challenge: organizations can now identify risk faster than they can respond to it. The question is no longer how quickly vulnerabilities are patched, but how quickly exposure can be identified, validated and contained.
Identity is Infrastructure: Why IAM Must Be Recoverable
Identity is the backbone of modern enterprises, crucial for operations and recovery. Examining incidents like Maersk, Conti and Stryker reveals identity's pivotal role in cyber resilience. Effective recovery demands treating identity as tier-0 infrastructure, ensuring trust restoration and integrating identity into all resilience strategies.