Advanced Technology Center

Proof of concept

Proof of concept environments enable customers to evaluate the introduction of new technology, existing investments and upgrades to determine if they will positively affect their organization and achieve desired business objectives. Proofs of concept leverage infrastructure from the ATC's pre-built environments as well as hardware and software from strategic partners and OEMs.

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Proofs of Concept leverage our existing (and expanding) data center infrastructure, as well as equipment from our strategic partners and OEMs, and bring it all together with our solution experts and test automation capabilities to simulate a solution or implementation in record time.

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Priorities Report

Networking Priorities for 2022

A roadmap for delivering new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

WWT Research

Apr 7, 2022

Lab Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

The Cisco 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.

Nov 13, 2019

2 min read

Priorities Report

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Security Priorities for 2022

A roadmap for protecting the business and powering performance.

WWT Research

Mar 22, 2022

Lab Development Platforms

Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage

Welcome to Pure Storage's Portworx lab for persistent container storage. Portworx's Enterprise Storage Platform is a complete storage and data management solution for your Kubernetes environments. Containers will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multicloud migrations and more.

Mar 7, 2022

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Lab ATC

Cisco ACI Module 1 - ACI APIC Setup, Best Practices Lab and Tutorial

Cisco's ACI Anywhere vision is to allow a single security and connectivity policy with a single pane of glass to manage all multicloud environments. The key to ACI Anywhere is the ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO), which allows the administrator to create consistent security and connectivity policies across multiple physical, virtual and cloud-based sites. This series of 4 lab modules will go through all the steps necessary to bring up an ACI Multi-Site environment from scratch. It will be divided into modules for the student to easily consume.

May 18, 2020

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Lab ATC

AlgoSec Foundations Lab

AlgoSec is a collection of software designed to help an organization optimize their network. The provide a way to map the flows within a network, make changes automatically and securely, and check compliance with automated reports. This lab provides an introduction to several of the features offered by AlgoSec, including their Firewall Analyzer, AppViz and FireFlow. This walkthrough guides users on how to use each of these network tools and provides an environment for further testing. This is only a small selection of features offered by AlgoSec.

Sep 20, 2022

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Lab Development Platforms

Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 Sandbox

In this lab environment, you will walk through deploying your own OpenShift 4.11 cluster on vSphere. The deployment method walked through uses the 'Installer-Provisioned Infrastructure' method. Once deployed, use some of our linked use cases or carve your path to experience what OpenShift offers.

Sep 14, 2022

1 min read

Video ATC

Elastic Endpoint Security Lab Overview

This video provides a brief overview of the Elastic Endpoint Security Lab and allows users to get a sneak peek before entering the sandbox.

Sep 9, 2022

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Lab OT Security

Claroty Industrial Control System Security Demo

Claroty is monitoring a virtual chemical manufacturing process environment and a simulated substation on a flat network. The environment contains a virtual plant using the MODBUS communications protocol (1 HMI, 1 PLC, 6 I/Os), a virtual substation using the IEC 104 communications protocol (1 HMI, 4 RTUs), and an instance of Claroty. This lab enables a user to familiarize and test Claroty's ability to passively discover hosts, map networks, baseline traffic and issue alerts on a simulated OT environment.

Sep 9, 2022

4 min read

Article ATC

Find the Right EDR Solution with WWT's ATC Malware Lab

Finding the right EDR solution for your organization is an extremely subjective endeavor. With so many viable solutions to choose from, where do you begin? WWT's ATC is where. Let's discuss.

Aug 31, 2022

6 min read

Case Study ATC

Solution Validation Allows Global Insurance Provider to Massively Scale VDI Userbase

Looking to extend its virtual desktop infrastructure capabilities, a global insurer turned to WWT to execute a proof of concept to select the best solution for their needs.

Aug 25, 2022

3 min read

Lab ATC

Prisma Access Remote User With Panorama Management

Prisma Access comes in two flavors: the cloud-managed version and one that can be managed by Panorama, which is what is covered in this lab. The lab shows some of the main features of the Panorama-managed version of Prisma Access. You will also be able to login to two different devices, one of which is a remote user with a corporate-owned asset and a second device that simulates a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) instance.

Aug 19, 2022

2 min read

Lab ATC

NPUsearch Lab - AMD

BlackLynx specializes in rapid search of big data sets without the need to transform or index the data. The BlackLynx Splunk app combines Splunk data capabilities with BlackLynx heterogenous computing and high performance analytics to optimize performance and reduce storage costs.

Aug 19, 2022

2 min read

Lab ATC

Sunbird DCiM Lab

Sunbird DCIM gives data center operators the ability to run efficient data center operations and improve data center infrastructure planning and design. It typically replaces Excel, Visio and homegrown databases and can bridge information across organizational domains including Data Center Ops, Facilities and IT to maximize utilization of the data center.

Aug 16, 2022

1 min read

Lab Thales CypherTrust Manager

CipherTrust Manager - Database Protection and Encryption

CipherTrust Database Protection provides transparent column-level encryption of structured sensitive data residing in databases, such as credit card, social security numbers, national ID numbers, passwords and email addresses. The solution enables large amounts of sensitive data to be moved in and out of data stores by efficiently encrypting and decrypting specific columns in databases. No changes are required for most applications, and CipherTrust Database Protection can scale to support multiple data centers in on-premises, virtual and public cloud environments. It is deployed with CipherTrust Manager, a FIPS 140-2 up to Level 3 compliant enterprise key manager that provides centralized key and policy management.

Aug 16, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

Oracle Session Border Controller Sandbox

This lab is sandbox environment designed to simulate a collaboration ecosystem with Oracle Session Border Controllers. Participants will have access to a Cisco and Asterisk Collaboration environments. Students will be able to test and configure the Oracle Session Border Controllers and enable VoIP calling between the systems.

Aug 5, 2022

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Lab ATC

Elastic Endpoint Security Lab

Elastic Security provides a different approach to EDR by combing EDR and SIEM capabilities which leads to reduced mean time to detect and respond to threats. Elastic Security for endpoint prevents ransomware and malware, detects advanced threats and arms responders with vital investigative context, such as prioritized detections to help stop alert fatigue.

Jul 26, 2022

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Lab ATC

Assessing Intel Optane Persistent Memory With Dell Live Optics

Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem) solves the problem of memory growth and DRAM density limitations by offering an efficient and cost-effective way to embrace a memory tiering architecture. This lab uses Dell Live Optics to perform an assessment and sizing for Intel Optane PMem.

Jul 14, 2022

1 min read

Lab Ubuntu Software

Development Environments - Getting Started

Development Environments Development environments are the first step on your automation journey. This track will help define what a development environment is and provide some hands-on exposure to one solution.

Jul 14, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

NGINX Accreditation 101

The first in a series of NGINX labs intended for educational and workshop purposes. Topics covered here include installation, load balancing, custom access logs, cache proxies, API live monitoring and dynamic configurations.

Jul 5, 2022

1 min read

Lab ATC

Cribl Foundation Lab

Cribl Stream is an observability pipeline tool living between any data source and any destination. These destinations can be systems of analysis (Splunk, Elastic, etc.) or systems of retention (S3 buckets, Data Lakes, etc.). Stream uses Sources, Destinations, Routes and Pipelines to move data coming from data sources, processes through its pipelines (group of functions) and sends the results to one or many destinations in the format that is best for the environment and its use cases.

Jun 29, 2022

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Lab ATC

Intro to MPLS Using LDP

MPLS has been used for over two decades. It is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. This lab provides a hands-on lab environment that will familiarize the user with the primary routing configuration of MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) with LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) running on Cisco routers.

Jun 27, 2022

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Lab ATC

Nokia Routing Hardware Lab

This lab demonstrates Nokia routing using MPLS on 7750 Service Routers, 7250 Interconnect Routers and 7210 Service Access System.

Jun 27, 2022

1 min read

Article ATC

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.

Jun 27, 2022

28 min read

Article ATC

HCI for Edge Computing

Many customers request help with setting up and configuring different solutions in our Advanced Technology Center to help them make the the right technology decisions. Learn about a particular proof of concept (POC) performed to deploy and test four different 2-node, edge technologies.

Jun 27, 2022

7 min read