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Demystifying the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Configuration Model
The purpose of this insight is to educate wireless network administrators who are considering deploying or migrating a wireless network about the similarities and differences between the Cisco Catalyst 9800 and AireOS wireless solutions. We have provided an overview of the Cisco Catalyst solution, details about why the configuration model was revamped, and instructions for how to correlate configuration constructs between the legacy and new configuration model, simplifying adoption of the new solution.
Putting Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Through the Paces in the ATC
Many know Fortinet as one of the leaders in the security space but not many have looked at them through the lens of SD-WAN. Within the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) we recently took a look at Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN offering and put it through the paces with our Lab Services SD-WAN test plan template.
Through our testing, we found that overall Fortinet is a serious contender in the SD-WAN space and should be in the discussions when considering an SD-WAN solution for your environment.
Cool as a ZutaCore Cucumber
The time has come to make the switch to Liquid Cooled Servers. With Liquid Cooled servers you should see a decrease in power consumption of the servers as well as your facility cooling power requirements. The move to a greener data center is happening and WWT can help facilitate your participation. Read on to learn all the things.
Are you just moving a bottleneck in your VSAN Solution?
One of our customers asked us to do a Proof of Concept (or POC) around some very customized performance based testing around vSAN technology. That being said, this ATC Insight gets into the weeds of benchmarking, so prepare yourself for a fun ride!
Crowdstrike EDR Testing in the ATC
Crowdstrike has been one of the hottest companies in the last 18 months. We can validate this statement with the testing activity we have done in the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) around Crowdstrike as an Endpoint, Detection, and Response (EDR) solution that our customers have asked us to evaluate with them.
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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.
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.
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.
Cool as a ZutaCore Cucumber
The time has come to make the switch to Liquid Cooled Servers. With Liquid Cooled servers you should see a decrease in power consumption of the servers as well as your facility cooling power requirements. The move to a greener data center is happening and WWT can help facilitate your participation. Read on to learn all the things.
Crowdstrike EDR Testing in the ATC
Crowdstrike has been one of the hottest companies in the last 18 months. We can validate this statement with the testing activity we have done in the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) around Crowdstrike as an Endpoint, Detection, and Response (EDR) solution that our customers have asked us to evaluate with them.
ATC Tests F5 SSLO in the Lab
Testing F5 Integrations
Bluetooth Low Energy Mobile App Development: A Comparison of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, React Native, and iOS
Team BLERN, an internal learning team, was formed to develop a mobile application with the ability to communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) health devices. Specifically, we were tasked with reading the heart rate and oxygen saturation levels provided by a pulse oximeter and displaying the data within the app.
MemVerge Memory Machine
Digital transformation has resulted in a significant increase of real-time data creation, which has driven demand for real-time analytics and AI/ML applications
Examples of High-impact Automations Across IT Infrastructure Volume 3
Volume 3 of our automation edition of ATC Insights goes through a few more automation efforts that we use on the Lab Services team to help deliver POC's (Proof of Concepts) faster to our internal and external customers.
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.
Dell PowerMax Performance During Upgrade
In the WWT Advanced Technology Center (ATC), we needed to do a code upgrade on a Dell PowerMax 2000 All-Flash Array. We decided to do some performance tests against the array during this code upgrade. Dell Support performed the upgrade while an ATC Lab Services storage architect checked the performance of the array during the upgrade process. We wanted to determine if any impact occurred to the array during a routine code upgrade. We had several customers who were interested in the outcome of this test for their own upgrade processes in their production environments.
SILK SDS Testing In The ATC
We had a customer recently ask us to do some lab testing via a Proof of Concept (or POC) around the Silk solution. The customer was interested in some specific testing around Performance, Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (or RAS).
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.
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.
NetApp SDS Testing In The ATC
We had a customer recently ask us to do some lab testing via a Proof of Concept (or POC) around a NetApp Solidfire solution. The customer was interested in some specific testing around Performance, Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (or RAS).
CMS and VQ Conference Manager Two Great Things That Go Great Together!
We have many customers that utilize our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) at WWT for different collaboration solutions. In this ATC Insight we introduce you to an On-Demand Lab that we have available on the WWT Platform, which is built in the ATC today. This lab showcases the feature and functionality of Cisco Meeting Server and VQ Conference Manager together. Users get to experience all these features and more in this self-guided full-featured lab on the WWT platform.
3 VCF POCs in the ATC, What We Learned...
We have had many customers in WWT's Advanced Technology Center utilize our Proof of Concept (POC) testing to evaluate different Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solutions that would fit their production environment needs. In this ATC Insight, we expose information from three different POCs that we executed on with our customers. All three of the POC's mentioned in this ATC Insight demonstrate the flexibility of VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) and show how it offers a variety of ways for organizations to run the infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud.
iSCSI Storage on Cisco HyperFlex
The next release of Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform will introduce iSCSI block storage to complement the existing NFS file protocol that customers have grown to love. Block storage will enable customers to run clustered workloads with shared disks that currently cannot be hosted on HyperFlex. We were able to test a beta release of the software 4.5(1a) at the ATC for functionality and usability. Additionally, we want to give you an early look at enabling iSCSI and creating storage objects!
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.
NetApp ONTAP and Unbound Interoperability Certification
One of our strategic partners, NetApp wanted us to validate the compatibility and functionality of using the Unbound Key Manager Server for data encryption keys on the NetApp Filer on behalf of our mutual customer. We chose to do a Proof of Concept in the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to validate that the two technology solutions could work together in the scenario provided by our customer.