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Security Transformation

Integrating SSL Orchestrator from F5 with NETSCOUT's nGenuisONE service assurance and cybersecurity platform

Maintaining security and delivering high-quality technology based digital services has never been more important or more challenging as the world has emerged from the recent pandemic and continues its transition to a multicloud world. NETSCOUT and F5 have had a technology alliance partnership for nearly a decade and the resulting innovations have proved to be invaluable to our customers.
ATC Insight
Sep 21, 2023

Automating for consistency and capacity with the POCDOC Tool

In the Advanced Technology Center, (or ATC) our Lab Services team is asked to perform Proof of Concepts (or POCs) with our customers every day. Sometimes our customers require very detailed results documentation that can literally be hundreds of pages long. The real challenge is trying to take all of the different results from testing in the lab and getting them compiled into a presentable format back to our customers.
ATC Insight
Jul 18, 2023
Network Security

F5 DDoS Protection with Intel SmartNIC

Protecting networks against volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is challenging enough, but for software-based infrastructure the challenge is even greater. In the past stopping multi-gigabit DDoS attacks has required dedicated network security hardware, but recently WWT was asked to test a virtual DDoS solution from F5 powered by the Intel SmartNIC FPGA.
ATC Insight
Jun 28, 2023
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ESG

Using AI to Reduce Energy Consumption, Cost and Carbon Emissions in Data Centers

Leveraging energy-saving technologies to move closer to net zero.
ATC Insight
May 26, 2023
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Sustainable Technology

ZutaCore's Chillin' Reality

WWT tests servers cooled with air and ZutaCore's two-phase liquid cooling option. Results may surprise you.
ATC Insight
Apr 19, 2023
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Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

The Multi-Domain Architecture Mind Set

Move away from the legacy mindset and make way for the end-to-end Software Defined Network (SDN) architecture.
ATC Insight
Mar 31, 2023
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Simplify Distributed Cloud Management With F5 Distributed Cloud Services Platform

In this ATC Insight, we will explore how F5 Distributed Cloud Services platform (F5 XC Services) can simplify the management of applications deployed across multiple cloud providers in multiple Kubernetes clusters. WWT, through its use of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) & F5 XC Services has proven how easy it is to establish cloud-to-cloud connectivity, layer security policies and discover API workloads for distributed cloud framework.
Blog
• Oct 28, 2022
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vSAN, Benchmarking, 10Gb, 25Gb, RoCEv2, and One More Thing…

Performance testing of VMware vSAN on Dell PowerEdge servers and Arista switches done for a large financial customer.
Blog
• Oct 10, 2022
Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

Testing Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN in the ATC

Palo Alto has long been known as a global cyber-security leader. Since their acquisition of CloudGenix in 2020, Palo has been helping to shape the cloud-centric model by adding SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) into a holistic SASE offering including Prisma Access for customers and an ever-evolving industry. The ATC (Advanced Technology Center) worked to build a lab within a few weeks that would test, showcase, and demonstrate Palo Alto's SD-WAN cloud-native network approach. Keep reading to see how Palo Alto completes their SASE solution.
ATC Insight
Jun 27, 2022
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Facilities Infrastructure

University Data Center: Optimize Space With Modern Performance and Scalability

After years of steady enrollment growth, a major university needed to transfer its data center to a smaller location to make room for additional student residences.
Case Study
• Apr 25, 2022
Cloud Networking

Cisco (Viptela) SD-WAN Cloud onRamp with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

This article will briefly explain ATC's experience with Cisco (Viptela) SD-WAN onRamp for Multicloud with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It will then describe the configuration steps as well as testing of these features.
ATC Insight
Mar 8, 2022
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Cloud Strategy

Cloud Edge Solution Comparison Accelerates Pharma's Path to Business Value

Learn how a pharmaceutical company leveraged the ATC to test and compare three cloud edge solutions: Microsoft Azure Stack Edge, AWS Outposts and Google SITE Appliance.
ATC Insight
Mar 8, 2022
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MemVerge Memory Machine

Digital transformation has resulted in a significant increase in real-time data creation, which has driven demand for real-time analytics and AI/ML applications.
Blog
• Apr 20, 2021

UCS 5108 Power and Thermal Testing in the ATC for Data Center Capacity

We had a customer who wanted us to do thermal and power testing around a compute solution. The Proof of Concept (POC) was set up to verify or validate power and thermal readings for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) components (specifically the 5108 chassis, 2408 IO Modules, and 6454 Fabric Interconnects) of the FlashStack design.
Blog
• Feb 2, 2021

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Enhanced Upgrade in 12.5

s it time to plan for an upgrade again? Cisco has announced that the timeframe between major and minor version releases of their Cisco Unified Communication Management (CUCM) application is accelerating. The accelerated time and frequency level of upgrades is pushing businesses to have robust, validated, and "ease of use" processes to perform upgrades. We had a global financial customer request we build a lab environment in the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to help them perform testing on the software upgrade process for their multiple CUCM clusters.
Blog
• Nov 4, 2020