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Five thoughts – plus a comment on the importance of leadership – from Cisco's AI Summit
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Five thoughts – plus a comment on the importance of leadership – from Cisco's AI Summit
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The Latest
Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for Enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy AI, observability is emerging as the discipline that determines whether those investments create durable value—or quietly erode it. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Ivan Wintersteiger, Cisco's Tapan Shah and NVIDIA's Shashank Sabhlok discuss why observability, when treated as foundational, becomes the connective tissue between infrastructure, applications, security and user experience.
CNAPP Explained: Simplifying Cloud-Native Security
In this lightboard session, we will take a look at the fundamental components of a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) to understand how it consolidates your cloud security architecture. You will see a breakdown of how Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) work together to provide a unified view of your environment and prioritize the most important issues first.
The Shift from AI Pilots to AI Infrastructure
As organizations move beyond experimentation, compute has become a deciding factor in whether AI delivers real value or stalls before production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP Neil Anderson, NVIDIA VP Chris Marriott and Cisco VP Daniel McGinniss talk about how organizations are rethinking where AI runs, how it's secured and how value is measured.
GCP - Creating VMs and VPCs
Get ready to build your own private cloud playground: you'll spin up a custom VPC with a dedicated subnet, punch a controlled SSH hole in its firewall, launch a Compute Engine VM in us-central1, and verify connectivity via browser SSH—all in one seamless track that cements subnetting, firewall, and VM-provisioning essentials.
GCP - Creating Cloud Storage
Explore the untapped potential of integrating hardware and software solutions. This lab delves into innovative strategies to bridge the gap, fostering seamless interaction and unlocking new possibilities for technological advancement. Discover how this synergy can revolutionize industries and redefine the future of technology.
Hands-on with Microsoft Group Policy
Maintaining security and managing user behavior in an enterprise environment is essential. Group Policy, a core feature of Microsoft Windows, allows administrators to enforce security and operational settings across the network. In this lab, you will implement group policies like strong password requirements, USB device restrictions, and automatic workstation locking to protect sensitive data.
Hands-on with Microsoft Active Directory
In this lab, you will set up a basic Active Directory environment to gain practical experience with directory services. The steps will include installing Active Directory, creating two Organizational Units (OUs)—one for users and one for groups—and setting up both a user account and a group account. To demonstrate group membership management, you will then add the user to the group. This lab is designed to help you build foundational skills for managing users and resources in a Windows Server environment.
Transform your security operations with Splunk Enterprise Security
Powering the SOC of the future with the market-leading SIEM. Learn how Splunk Enterprise Security empowers SOC efficiency with unified workflows across threat detection, investigation and response.
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Navy Digital Modernization Community
The Global Enterprise Modernization Software and Services (GEMSS) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a five-year Navy program designed to maximize the Department of the Navy (DON) investment in the use of existing hardware while supporting the smooth transition of ongoing software maintenance for upgrades and patches to software subscriptions for the Department of Defense infrastructures already in-place at installations worldwide.
Associate Academy
This Community Page illustrates and highlights key aspects of the various early in career programs the Global Workforce Enablement supports and serves as a centralized location of relevant topics for stakeholders.
Baptist Health
Welcome to the Baptist Health community page on the WWT Digital Platform. We look forward to strengthening our relationship. This private community has been created to improve collaboration and discussion between our organizations to drive business outcomes. Within this community, you will find links to articles, events, videos, workshops, and a broad collection of digital labs to support experimentation, education, and exploration.
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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Zscaler Zero Trust – Branch Connector and Airgap
Join our virtual hands-on lab to explore Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch (ZTB) platform, focusing on Branch Connector and Airgap technologies. This session demonstrates how Zscaler's modern approach moves beyond legacy network architectures to enforce least-privilege access and advanced micro-segmentation. You'll see how each endpoint is isolated, dramatically reducing the attack surface and preventing lateral movement—crucial for containing breaches and limiting internal threats.
Participants will tour the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) consoles, and observe how policies and rule sets provide granular control over user and device access for both internal (East-West) and external (North-South) traffic. The lab is read-only, but you'll be able to view all Zscaler modules and their settings in action.
How to Use ARMOR: A Guide to AI Security Transformation
ARMOR, a vendor-agnostic AI security framework, offers comprehensive guidance across six domains to secure AI deployments and protect against dynamic and fast-moving threats.
Former NSA Cyber Director on the Emerging AI Threat Landscape
AI-powered nation-state cyber threats have entered a new phase. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Head of National Security and Critical Infrastructure Madison Horn joins former NSA Director Rob Joyce to break down what's changed and why business leaders should be paying close attention.
AI-Native Private Cloud: Scaling Enterprise AI with VMware Cloud Foundation & AMD
Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the transformative partnership between WWT, AMD and Broadcom in enterprise AI. Moderated by WWT's James Harless, Team Lead of Virtualization & Container Platforms, this event brings together experts from AMD and Broadcom to unveil their joint platform—combining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), AMD Enterprise AI software, AMD Instinct GPUs and WWT services. Discover how this collaboration empowers enterprises to build AI-ready private clouds that deliver privacy, security, flexibility and scalable performance. Panelists will address key challenges in AI deployment, including compliance, cost optimization, and workload management, while showcasing innovative use cases such as GPU-as-a-Service, agentic AI and secure content creation. Attendees will gain actionable insights into architecting, deploying, and managing AI workloads confidently on familiar infrastructure, with the flexibility to evolve as their AI strategies grow.
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How Wingstop Delivers a Predictive Digital Experience That's Always One Step Ahead
Wingstop partnered with WWT to unify data and leverage AI to power personalized customer journeys, transform internal operations and scale for exponential growth.
AI-Native Private Cloud: Scaling Enterprise AI with VMware Cloud Foundation & AMD
Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the transformative partnership between WWT, AMD and Broadcom in enterprise AI. Moderated by WWT's James Harless, Team Lead of Virtualization & Container Platforms, this event brings together experts from AMD and Broadcom to unveil their joint platform—combining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), AMD Enterprise AI software, AMD Instinct GPUs and WWT services. Discover how this collaboration empowers enterprises to build AI-ready private clouds that deliver privacy, security, flexibility and scalable performance. Panelists will address key challenges in AI deployment, including compliance, cost optimization, and workload management, while showcasing innovative use cases such as GPU-as-a-Service, agentic AI and secure content creation. Attendees will gain actionable insights into architecting, deploying, and managing AI workloads confidently on familiar infrastructure, with the flexibility to evolve as their AI strategies grow.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
Cloud Center of Excellence: The Missing Engine Behind Scalable Governance and Enterprise Cloud Success
Stop managing cloud. Start driving results.
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Scaling AI Across the Workforce to Empower Every Employee
In 2024, organizations laid the groundwork for AI transformation, and now in 2025, it's time to cement your AI strategy. Join WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis as they share insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace Priorities research report. You'll hear their unique perspectives on treating AI like a new employee and guidance on transitioning from proof-of-concept to organization-wide AI implementation so you can empower every employee.
How Wingstop Delivers a Predictive Digital Experience That's Always One Step Ahead
Wingstop partnered with WWT to unify data and leverage AI to power personalized customer journeys, transform internal operations and scale for exponential growth.
How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core
There are numerous ways to clone an object in C# .NET Core. This article explores some of the approaches you can use to make a deep copy of an object and the pros and cons of each method.
How Forward-Thinking Leaders Integrate Culture and Tech to Amplify Organizational Success
How can my organization become a great place to work? This is a common question we hear from clients of WWT. While there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to culture, the most successful organizations integrate company culture with advanced technology to leverage data-driven insights and drive measurable business outcomes. Join WWT's experts Joe Berger, VP of Digital Experiences, and Krista Bush, VP of Global Employee Experience, as they discuss a framework for creating a sustainable and resilient company culture — a framework that has placed WWT on the Great Place to Work® list for 13 years running.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Scott Data Embraces AI Transformation to Offer GPU as a Service
Learn how a data center leader partnered with WWT to validate and execute a strategic vision for providing on-demand access to the advanced high-performance infrastructure required to run today's most demanding AI workloads.
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.
MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN for the beginner
The article below covers VXLAN encapsulation and how MP-BGP is used to learn and forward layer two and layer three traffic across the encapsulation. To better understand the content, we recommended that readers have prior knowledge of BGP and the MP-BGP routing protocol. For those unfamiliar with these concepts, we suggest reading our foundational learning path's "MP-BGP for the beginner" article beforehand. It's important to note that MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN may initially seem intimidating, but this beginner's guide will clearly understand how it works. It's a technology that has gained popularity over the last few years, with many companies adopting it.
Former NSA Cyber Director on the Emerging AI Threat Landscape
AI-powered nation-state cyber threats have entered a new phase. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Head of National Security and Critical Infrastructure Madison Horn joins former NSA Director Rob Joyce to break down what's changed and why business leaders should be paying close attention.
Top Labs
Cyber Range - Initiation
Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.
Cisco AI Defense Capture the Flag (CTF)
Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6.1(3f), emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity.
The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
Cisco Secure Access
The Cisco Secure Access lab is your chance to get your hands on Cisco's SSE solution. During this lab, you will look at data loss prevention, unified policy, zero trust, and the benefits of quick udp internet connection. Get started today!
WWT Agentic Network Assistant
Explore the WWT Agentic Network Assistant, a browser-based AI tool that converts natural language into Cisco CLI commands, executes them across multiple devices, and delivers structured analysis. Using a local LLM, it streamlines troubleshooting, summarizes device health, and compares configs, demonstrating the future of intuitive, AI driven network operations.
Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab
The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.3)
The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Cisco's SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Partner Spotlight
Gigamon
Gigamon® offers a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived telemetry to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs, enabling you to better secure and manage your hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.
Partner POV | Post-Quantum Cryptography: What It Is and How It Works
Quantum computers threaten current encryption, necessitating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to secure data against future quantum attacks. Organizations must transition to PQC, leveraging algorithms like Kyber and Dilithium, to protect sensitive information. Proactive adoption ensures long-term security, safeguarding data from the impending quantum era.
Gigamon Insights: Accelerate Security, Performance, and Compliance with AI-Driven Intelligence
Gigamon AI extends the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline with GenAI-powered intelligence to help organizations secure and manage their hybrid cloud environments. By fusing network-derived telemetry with AI-driven automation and guidance, it delivers real-time visibility into GenAI activity, streamlines operations, and strengthens governance without relying on endpoint agents. From detecting shadow AI to simplifying configuration and accelerating troubleshooting, Gigamon AI empowers security and IT teams to act with greater clarity, speed, and control.
Gigamon Recognizes Top Global Partners at 2026 Sales Kickoff
Gigamon honors top partners whose expertise helps customers gain deep observability to better secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure