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Debunking the Myths of Cisco's Software-Defined Access (SDA)
Cisco Software-Defined Access (SDA) has evolved from a promising concept to a proven enterprise solution. Despite lingering myths, SDA is now a mature, scalable and secure architecture powering thousands of modern campus networks. In this post, we'll debunk common misconceptions and highlight real-world success stories that showcase SDA's true capabilities.
The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand
This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
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.
Securing the Era of AI: How Cisco AI Defense Protects the Entire AI Lifecycle
AI's rapid adoption outpaces governance, creating unmanaged risks. Cisco's AI Defense addresses vulnerabilities in third-party tools and enterprise applications, offering automated red-teaming, runtime protection and AI supply chain management. This framework ensures the secure deployment of AI, striking a balance between innovation and accountability, and provides a blueprint for responsible AI adoption.
PAN-OS and EDLs - Everything You Wanted to Know about External Dynamic Lists
Looking to implement external dynamic lists in your Palo Alto NGFW or Prisma Access? This post will answer all your questions about how EDLs work in PAN-OS to dynamically improve your security posture.
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Fortinet Xperts 2025
Fortinet XPERTS 2025 delivered the heat, despite the cold outside. Packed with cutting-edge innovation, expert insights and hands-on learning, this year's event proved once again that Fortinet knows how to bring the fire to cybersecurity.
Securing the AI Surge with Check Point's GenAI Protect
This blog explores how GenAI has surged into daily workflows, often without visibility or guardrails, and why organizations must secure this adoption without slowing productivity. It explains the risks of shadow AI, the value of Check Point's GenAI Protect and how WWT's AI Proving Ground accelerates safe, multivendor GenAI deployment across modern enterprise environments.
Software Image Management (SWIM): Fixing the IT Infrastructure Gap
Struggling with slow, manual network updates? Discover how Software Image Management (SWIM) closes the IT infrastructure gap by automating patching, boosting compliance, and eliminating configuration drift so your team can focus on innovation and your business stays competitive.
Securing the Future: Fortinet as WWT's Partner of the Month
A closer look at the powerful partnership between WWT and Fortinet—and how the Associate Academy experience brings cybersecurity to life for the next generation of technologists.
Accelerating Software Development Velocity with Devin
Devin is an autonomous AI engineer who acts like a trusted kitchen manager, handling the backlog, repetitive prep work and tasks that slow teams down, so human developers can focus on the highest-value engineering "dishes." Instead of just making individuals faster, Devin adds true parallel capacity by taking on delegated work from end to end. It understands codebases, completes tasks independently, and returns finished outputs, such as pull requests. In short, Devin is a new kind of teammate who helps organizations move faster and clear the work they've never had time to tackle.
Cisco's Technology Announcements: Building the AI-Ready and Edge-First Future
Cisco Partner Summit 2025 in San Diego marked more than a celebration of partnerships. It represented a turning point in how Cisco and its ecosystem are defining the next era of AI, edge compute, networking and lifecycle services. The event showcased major technology announcements alongside a sweeping series of awards recognizing partner excellence. Among those honored, World Wide Technology (WWT) stood out for its innovation, customer impact and global execution.
5 Key Takeaways from UBBA Summit and Plugfest 2025
The Utility Broadband Alliance's premier event provided insight into how utilities can modernize operations, take control of their data and build future-ready networks.
The Open-Source Equation: Balancing Cost, Control and Complexity
Open-source virtualization and container platforms promise flexibility and freedom from licensing constraints, but they can also introduce operational overhead and risks that should be weighed carefully. This post provides a balanced view of when open-source makes sense - and when enterprise support still matters.
Zero Trust Principles
Not just a single solution, a zero trust implementation is an integrated approach for continuous validation of authorized users across your entire organization. A zero trust security framework focuses on protecting critical assets through a layered, continuously monitored and adaptable architecture that minimizes risks and containment in case of breaches.
We Gained More Wizdom in 2025
Wiz's inaugural user conference in NYC unveiled new expansions in AI and SaaS security, introducing agentic AI and Attack Surface Management. These innovations aim to enhance context-driven security, addressing emerging threats and prioritizing vulnerabilities. As AI and SaaS platforms evolve, Wiz's proactive approach ensures robust protection against increasingly sophisticated adversaries.
6 Key Takeaways from NVIDIA GTC DC 2025
The leading AI conference highlighted how emerging technologies are moving from experimentation to real-world applications, transforming organizations across the public and private sectors.
Cutting Through Security Vendor Hype: A Practical Guide
Every security vendor claims they're revolutionary. Most are full of it. After sitting through countless pitches, I've learned to spot the red flags fast – and so can you. Here's how to separate the vendors who'll actually help you win from the ones just looking to cash your check and ghost you.
Part 1 - Devin: Autonomous AI for Modernization
Legacy code modernization is now a strategic imperative, driven by technical debt and innovation demands. Devin, an autonomous AI, revolutionizes this process by compressing timelines, enhancing quality and freeing engineers for innovation. Enterprises must embrace AI-orchestrated modernization to stay competitive, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience.
Part 2 - Devin: Autonomous AI for Modernization
In Part 2, we shift from strategy to execution. We open the hood on Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, and walk through its enterprise-ready workflow—from high-fidelity codebase analysis to automated refactoring, test creation, documentation and CI/CD orchestration—revealing how each step improves modernization predictability, auditability and operational scale for large organizations.
Check Point's Virtual Patching and the Evolution of Application Security
This blog discusses the Log4j crisis and highlights how Check Point's AI-driven WAAP protected customers through virtual patching. It explains the shift from WAF to WAAP, highlighting fast deployment, adaptive prevention and simple evaluation, which proves that real security comes from automation and proactive protection, rather than waiting for patches.
SentinelOne OneCon 2025: Redefining the Future of AI-Driven Security
SentinelOne isn't afraid to take on the hard problems. Too often, as practitioners, we are faced with having to make concessions in our security program for the sake of waiting on our OEM of choice to innovate, acquire or deliver on feature-rich promises over the years of our contract terms. If there is one thing that 2025 has taught me is that SentinelOne is facing those head-on.
Why Cabinet Color Matters More Than You Think in Data Center Design
When building or expanding a data center, many important decisions must be made, and every design decision affects performance, efficiency and cost. Power density, cooling strategy and cable management are obvious factors, but one of the most overlooked elements is cabinet color.
Cribl for Security: The Control Plane for AI's Data Tsunami
AI doesn't just generate insights — it generates data chaos. Cribl brings control back to the pipeline with selective capture, policy-first governance and search-in-place, turning AI exhaust into operational advantage.
Powering AI at Scale: Cisco UCS C880A M8
Cisco and World Wide Technology unveil the UCS C880A M8, an air-cooled, 8-way GPU server designed for large-scale AI workloads. This innovation enhances Cisco's AI infrastructure, offering exceptional GPU density, high-speed interconnects, and architectural flexibility. It represents a strategic evolution in secure, scalable, and automated AI operations, bridging current needs with future hybrid cooling solutions.
The Role of AI in Email Security
Email collaboration replaced in-person meetings as the top tool of business long ago. Not much changed until AI rolled around, offering users the ability to craft more concise messages and summarize long rambling emails. But AI, like any tool, can be used for good or evil.