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WWT Sets a New Standard for Enterprise-Ready AI with Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Discover how WWT, Cisco and NVIDIA are giving enterprises a clear, secure path to turn AI ambition into real-world impact with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA modular reference design, supported by proven expertise and ready-to-use resources.
SSL Certificate Validity Changes 2025: How to Prepare Your Business Now
Beginning in March 2026 SSL/TLS certificate will begin expiring after 200 days and will continue to be reduced each year until 2029 when validity will be down to just 47 days. This change aims to enhance security, reduce exposure from compromised certificates, and encourage automation, but will require significant changes in certificate management processes for many companies. Organizations should begin preparing now for shorter certificate lifespans and more frequent domain validations to avoid security risks and ensure reliable digital interactions
Performance Benchmarking: Bun vs. C# vs. Go vs. Node.js vs. Python
I took 5 runtimes and built functionally identical REST APIs with each of them. Then I ran load tests for each application to measure their performance.
PAN-OS and EDLs - Everything You Wanted to Know about External Dynamic Lists
External Dynamic Lists (EDLs) in Palo Alto Firewalls dynamically integrate IPs, URLs, and domains into security policies, reducing change requests. They empower SOCs to manage threats without firewall changes. Despite limitations, EDLs enhance security by automating updates and supporting authentication. Implementing EDLs optimizes security posture and streamlines threat management.
Designing Red Hat OpenShift with Hosted Control Planes
Red Hat OpenShift's Hosted Control Planes (HCP) revolutionize cluster management by reducing server costs and enabling efficient, scalable deployments. With advanced features like autoscaling and multi-cluster management, HCP offers a streamlined approach to managing clusters both on-premise and in the cloud, transforming the OpenShift experience.
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Garbage In, Garbage Amplified: The AI Feedback Loop Most Companies Miss
Most teams are using AI to summarize and connect internal data. Fewer realize they may be creating a feedback loop in the process. When AI-generated content gets stored alongside source material, it can quietly shift what is treated as truth. This blog article breaks down how it happens, why it matters, and one simple structural change that can prevent it.
From Observer to Catalyst: How Faculty Learned to Teach with AI in Four Sessions
Over four sessions in March 2026, WWT and GitHub took a cohort of educators from complete beginners to running fully automated classrooms — distributing assignments, collecting submissions, and setting up autograding from scratch. No coding background required. Participants left with a working GitHub Classroom, a reusable curriculum hub, and a question that had shifted from what is this? to what do I build next?
Elevate Your Branch & Campus Networking Lifecycle Management
Today's networking and security trends are driving branches and campuses to rethink their network lifecycle management strategy.
Check Point is building AI Security into the center of the Cyber Strategy
Check Point's cybersecurity strategy focuses on four pillars: Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security. As AI becomes integral to decision-making, Check Point emphasizes AI Security to address unique risks. Their AI Defense Plane ensures comprehensive governance, visibility, and continuous testing, redefining enterprise defense in the agentic AI era.
Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB)
Wireless connectivity has long been too unreliable for mission-critical industrial operations. Until now. Cisco's Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) technology delivers the consistency and predictability of a physical cable, without the cable. From smart factories and autonomous vehicles to high-speed rail and busy seaports, discover how URWB is enabling industries to embrace wireless connectivity without compromising on performance or safety.
AI, Experience and the Human at the Center
The Gartner Digital Workplace Summit emphasized the centrality of employees in AI-driven workplaces. Success hinges on designing AI to enhance human workflows, not overshadow them. Organizations must prioritize personalized, DEX-focused strategies, ensuring technology aligns with human needs to drive innovation and productivity.
Cisco Secure Access is a Natural Evolution of Cisco Umbrella
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, traditional security measures fall short. Cisco Secure Access, a cloud-delivered SSE solution, integrates zero trust, AI-driven threat intelligence, and defense-in-depth protection. It simplifies security operations, enhances user experience, and adapts to modern threats, ensuring seamless, secure access across diverse environments.
Memory Tiering in VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Closer Look at the TCO Equation
VCF 9's native memory tiering capability fundamentally changes how virtual infrastructure is sized and priced. For organizations running large-scale virtualized environments, understanding this feature — and its relationship to today's DDR5 vs. NVMe pricing gap — may reshape how you think about platform economics entirely.
Why Networking Must Evolve Now: 3 Key Takeaways from HPE Tech Jam 2026
At HPE Tech Jam 2026, networking emerged as mission-critical infrastructure powering AI, hybrid cloud and digital operations. As Praveen Jain highlighted, rising complexity and scale demand automation and intent-based networking. Platforms like Juniper Apstra enable resilient, AI-ready data center networks—giving modern enterprises a critical competitive edge.
Intent-Based Networking Is No Longer Optional: Why Juniper Apstra Is Winning in the Modern Data Center
Intent-based networking is no longer a future vision—it's a present-day necessity. As data centers evolve to support hybrid cloud, AI workloads, and multi-vendor complexity, legacy, configuration-driven models are breaking down. Forward-looking organizations are turning to intent-based networking to regain control, accelerate operations, and reduce risk—with Juniper Apstra leading the way as a proven platform for modern data center transformation.
The Cloud Identity Crisis
In 2025, attackers shifted focus to credential harvesting and identity-based attacks, exploiting the surge in non-human identities (NHIs) in cloud environments. As NHIs outnumber human identities, organizations face increased risks. Effective identity governance, including Just-in-Time access and automation, is crucial for robust cloud security and minimizing operational exposure.
Two Paths to a Cloud Operating Model: Top-Down or Bottom-Up
There are only two ways to become a true cloud operator: executive mandate or technical evolution. This piece examines both paths, their risks and why lasting success requires convergence between leadership vision and IT execution.
Key Takeaways from the Optical Fiber Communications 2026 Conference
Members of WWT's Core Networking Team share their key takeaways and insights from the Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2026.
The Invisible Network: Why Global-Fi Architecture Is the Enterprise Differentiator of 2026
In 2026, Global-Fi Architecture emerges as a crucial enterprise differentiator, transforming networks into seamless, invisible platforms. Emphasizing wireless-first design, SD-WAN integration, micro-segmentation and AIOps, it redefines business operations. Organizations investing in this architecture gain a competitive advantage, ensuring networks are reliable, secure and unobtrusive, aligning with evolving business needs.
How the "Stryker" Intune Wipe Incident Highlights a Critical Gap in Endpoint Control
The "Stryker" incident highlights vulnerabilities in control plane design, leading to large-scale device wipes via Microsoft Intune. This case study emphasizes the need for layered safeguards, such as Workspace ONE's verification, segmentation and bulk action constraints, to prevent catastrophic outcomes. Architectural resilience, not just policy, is crucial for security.
AI Infrastructure Is Changing—and the Network Is Now Part of the Performance Engine
AI infrastructure is shifting from disconnected components to integrated systems where compute, storage, software, and networking are optimized together for scalable performance. As AI moves into production, the data center network becomes a critical driver of efficiency, directly impacting GPU utilization, latency, and overall workload performance. Modern AI environments demand high east-west traffic handling, strong observability, resiliency and automation. For enterprises, networking is no longer just connectivity—it is foundational to delivering predictable AI outcomes, improving operational simplicity and maximizing the value of AI investments.
Securing the Browser: A Closer Look at Check Point Browse
Check Point Browse revolutionizes browser security by embedding protection directly within the browser, addressing phishing, malware, credential misuse and AI-driven data leaks. Its nano agent and extension model ensure seamless, real-time defense without relying on traditional proxies, aligning security with modern work habits and safeguarding sensitive data effortlessly.
WWT's Take on Fortinet Accelerate 2026
WWT's and Fortinet's partnership was showcased during Accelerate 2026.
From API Discovery to Defense: Get continuous protection with F5 WAAP
APIs are the hidden engines of our connected world. Your banking app, your rideshare, even the weather app you check before stepping outside—all rely on APIs to deliver data in real time. From the essential to the mundane, we interact with them countless times a day.
Agents in Action: Building the Future of AI at NSBE 2026
More than 200 engineers built a working AI agent—live, no code required—and left asking for more.