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To answer the most complex questions, we've developed an immersive learning platform, powered by our Advanced Technology Center, designed to be at the forefront of what's possible. Accelerate your knowledge by joining our physical and virtual ecosystem of innovation, research, community, labs and thought leadership. Be in the know wherever you are in the world.

On-demand Labs

Our on-demand, self-service lab environments allow you to have hands-on access to solution products from leading and emerging technology vendors. Use these labs to learn critical components of building, troubleshooting and operating these products within a protected, virtual environment

NetApp Cloud Data Sense

NetApp Cloud Data Sense monitors and analyzes data sources for personally identifiable information. Custom reporting allows organizations to understand their privacy posture and mitigate the risk of exposing sensitive data. Built-in reports can be generated to help your organization meet the requirements of GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

Aug 1, 2021

2 min read

NetApp Cloud Backup Lab

Cloud Backup delivers a seamless and cost-effective backup and restore capabilities for protecting and archiving data.

May 6, 2022

3 min read

Cloud Block Store for AWS - Pure Storage

In this lab, users will learn basic AWS principles and get an overview of Pure Cloud Block Store (CBS).

Jan 18, 2021

2 min read

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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.

Explore Proofs of Concept

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.

Lab as a Service

Lab as a Service (LaaS) secures your organization dedicated lab space within the ATC, built to your unique performance, security and access requirements. It simplifies and streamlines the rapid prototyping and provisioning of multi-OEM topologies for evaluation, testing and proof of concept.

Keep pace with the speed at which OEMs release new code by using LaaS for regression testing and accelerated product certification. Gain peace of mind that unstable code won't be introduced to your production environments, and let your skilled engineers focus on production activities instead of tedious QA tasks.

Make LaaS the foundation for how you manage the lifecycle of your technology investments.

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WWT Research

WWT Research Reports provide actionable insights into major industry and technology trends that will help you make the right decisions faster for your organization

Exclusive Content from the ATC

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.

Jun 26, 2020

14 min read

The Power of Distributed Caching With Redis

Explore the nature of computing and data access to uncover the reason why distributed caching can be so effective.

Feb 2, 2021

6 min read

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.

Feb 24, 2022

11 min read

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WWT Identity Maturity Model

A step-by-step guide for CISOs to reduce risk and deliver business value.

Sep 14, 2021

2 min read

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.

Sep 21, 2020

18 min read

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Video Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco Umbrella Integration With Meraki MR

In this video, Steve Hollar will demonstrate how to configure a new SSID for guest users and then enable the Umbrella policy for the new SSID.

Apr 23, 2020

7:19

SASE Architecture: Cisco Viptela SD-WAN With Netskope (SSE) Lab

First coined in 2019, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is the convergence of network and security frameworks. SASE aims to reduce the operational complexity that comes with a cloud-first delivery model. Application assurance and service optimization are achieved via global Point-of-Presence (POPs) and peering with carriers providing high-performance backbones. The combination of all these factors gives the user a consistent and secure experience no matter where they are located.

Apr 25, 2022

2 min read

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

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations 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.

Jul 14, 2020

2 min read

Cisco ACI 5.0 Virtual Simulator Lab

The ACI 5.0 Simulator is designed to give our customers a chance to experience the new ACI 5.0 release, from initial connectivity and setup through best practice fabric configuration and VMM integration. You can also launch this environment to utilize automation tools (Postman) to configure and interact with the APIC.

Jul 23, 2020

2 min read

What's new

F5 Certificate Rotate with Vault and BIG-IP

Use Docker, Ansible and Terraform to create a Certificate Authority with Hashicorp Vault and F5 BIGIP. Ephemeral certificates are rotated every 2 minutes.

May 16, 2022

1 min read

NetApp Cloud Tiering Lab

NetApp Cloud Tiering service extends your on-premises ONTAP clusters to the cloud by combining their SSD storage with a low-cost object storage of your choice to one pool. Without compromising on manageability and performance, Cloud Tiering efficiently manages your storage pool by seamlessly placing your data at the right tier at the right time, based on its usage.

May 12, 2022

2 min read

Lab Application Modernization

WAAP for Open Banking Lab

This lab demonstrates the use case for securing a Open Banking transaction initiated by a PSU (Payment Service User) by logging into the TPP (Third Party App).

May 9, 2022

2 min read

NetApp Cloud Sync

NetApp Cloud Sync is a vendor agnostic service that enables replication with file and object storage. Replication and conversion of dissimilar storage types are handled natively.

May 9, 2022

3 min read

NetApp Cloud Manager Lab

Cloud Manager provides IT experts and cloud architects with a centralized control plane to manage, monitor and automate data in hybrid-cloud environments, providing an integrated experience of NetApp's Cloud Data Services.

May 9, 2022

2 min read

Lab Dell Data Protection

Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Essentials

Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery is a pre-engineered, pre-packaged purpose-built solution focused on recovery. This lab provides a foundational overview of the PowerProtect Cyber Recovery components and functionality.

May 8, 2022

2 min read

NetApp Cloud Backup Lab

Cloud Backup delivers a seamless and cost-effective backup and restore capabilities for protecting and archiving data.

May 6, 2022

3 min read

NetApp Cloud Insights

NetApp Cloud Insights is a cloud infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

May 6, 2022

3 min read

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Lab

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a powerful, cost-effective, and easy-to-use data management solution for your cloud workloads. The familiar and reliable Cloud Volumes ONTAP data management software with its data protection and storage efficiency features is available in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

May 6, 2022

3 min read

Nokia 1830 PSS Lab: Provisioning Connections With NFM-T

This lab utilizes Nokia's Network Functions Manager for Transport to demonstrate how to add nodes, followed by commissioning the optical nodes using their design file and then building Infrastructure Trails that would carry customer traffic. It concludes by demonstrating the decommissioning and uninstall of the Infrastructure Trails and Nodes.

Apr 27, 2022

2 min read

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.

Apr 25, 2022

4 min read

Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware Cloud Foundation: HCX Migration Lab

This is a interactive introduction to migrating application workloads from an existing VMware vSphere 6.x environment to VMware Cloud Foundation utilizing the VMware HCX application mobility platform.

Apr 25, 2022

2 min read

SASE Architecture: Cisco Viptela SD-WAN With Netskope (SSE) Lab

First coined in 2019, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is the convergence of network and security frameworks. SASE aims to reduce the operational complexity that comes with a cloud-first delivery model. Application assurance and service optimization are achieved via global Point-of-Presence (POPs) and peering with carriers providing high-performance backbones. The combination of all these factors gives the user a consistent and secure experience no matter where they are located.

Apr 25, 2022

2 min read

WWT and Aruba Partnership

Accelerate your transformation journey through the partnership and continued success of HPE Aruba and World Wide Technology.

Apr 19, 2022

8:38

Apstra Lab

This lab will enable a student to build a basic Multi-Site fabric using Apstra for complete end-to-end connectivity.

Apr 13, 2022

1 min read

DOCSIS Dataplane Performance on Intel's Ice-Lake Microarchitecture

Within this lab, users become familiarized with a basic virtual CMTS environment by learning to configure and install custom service group configurations, tune traffic rates and use the included Grafana dashboard to view the performance of Intel's Ice-Lake CPUs. This lab is targeted toward anybody who is interested in the future of DOCSIS technology and the virtualization of network functions.

Apr 13, 2022

2 min read

Lab VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu Experience Lab

The VMware Tanzu Experience Lab provides the lab user with a high-level overview of VMware Tanzu suite of administrative and monitoring tools that consist of Tanzu Mission Control(TMC), Tanzu Service Mesh (TSM) and Tanzu Observability.

Apr 13, 2022

1 min read

HPE DSCC Lab

HPE Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC) is the new native cloud-based storage management for storage infrastructure. It's an application of HPE's GreenLake Common Cloud Console, which allows the enterprise to manage servers, storage infrastructure, networking and HPE GreenLake platforms. This lab gives you a basic look and feel of DSCC application.

Apr 6, 2022

1 min read

ATC Builders Meeting Archive

This is the ATC Core Builders Meeting Playlist. Every week, WWT experts spend time covering their views and opinions on various technology products, topics and solutions. Tune in and fuel your passion for learning!

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Optical Data Center Interconnect (DCI): Infinera Groove G30 Lab

With innovative, modular, open plug-and-play capabilities, the Infinera Groove G30 can be customized for any required application based on the installation of specific modules and pluggables into the common chassis. Infinera supports a wide range of modules for DWDM transmission, muxponder, and transponder applications. Open Line System (OLS) applications are enabled with optical multiplexer structures, amplifiers and additional active optical layer functions such as protection switching, and integrated OTDR.

Mar 23, 2022

1 min read