Advanced Technology Center

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Advanced Technology Center (ATC)

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.

What's inside?

The ATC is a collaborative ecosystem used to design, build, educate, demonstrate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions for our customers, partners and employees around the globe. The heart of the ATC is our Data Centers which house 350+ racks of equipment used to cut technology evaluation time from months to weeks, if not days.

ATC DC1-60

Located in the heart of our tech campus in St. Louis, the original ATC Data Center serves as a multi-purpose data center lab where we can accept various customer/partner products and racks.

ATC DC2-56

Our first data center expansion in the ATC on our Tech Campus in St. Louis, architected to efficiently move gear in and out, while utilizing modern data center design principles.

ATC DC3-56

This data center is the twin of our DC2 facility, located on our Tech Campus in St. Louis.

ATC DC4-56

Our newest data center on the Tech Campus in St. Louis, that offers a variety of secure co-location offerings.

ATC DC5

WWT's ATC Lab as a Service (LaaS) data center is a purpose-built, SOC/SSAE18 audited world-class facility designed to meet the demanding power and cooling needs of any modern environment. The Tier III data center design provides for a completely redundant and continually operating facility.

Equinix DC11

Our Equinix extension of the ATC allows our customers to experiment with various technologies that help them architect their next-gen cloud ready architecture. This facility is located in Ashburn, VA.

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Cloud connected

Adopting a combination of on-premise, off-premise and public cloud capabilities is the only way to keep up with the rapid market changes digital disruption is driving. The ATC is a replica of that ever-changing landscape with integration into all three major Cloud Service Providers, leveraging low latency connections through our Equinix Extension.

Testing in the ATC makes it all real

We use enterprise-class traffic generation tools, such as Ixia IxLoad, to simulate the applications that are unique to your organization to show how a solution seamlessly integrates into your network. Over the years we have developed a testing framework that allows us to go from concept to test plan to achieve the outcome needed for your product or solution evaluation.

Testing use cases

Comparison

Upgrade/Migration

Architecture Validation

Performance

Functionality

Learn more about our advanced testing capabilities in the ATC

ATC

Testing Capabilities in the ATC

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The Power of Partnerships

Explore the best the ATC has to offer

Labs, Demos and Research from the Advanced Technology Center

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.

Lab

Foundation Lab

ATC

Nlyte DCIM Lab

Gain preliminary understanding of Nlyte's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Suite with this lab environment.

Lab

Foundation Lab

Cloud-Native 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.

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

ATC

Intent Based Networking with Juniper Apstra

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

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

TIC 3.0

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.x)

Lab

Foundation Lab

The ATC's most valuable assets are the Experts

Aaron Freidenberg

Director - ATC

Bill Thompson

Director, Global Solutions Development

John Thompson

Sr. Manager of ATC Lab Services

Chris Braun

Engineering Manager

Derik Heidemann

Manager, ATC Lab Services Storage Team

Joshua Burpo

Manager - ATC - Lab Services - Security

Paul Sievers

Manager, Lab Services

Joe Marentette

Technical Solutions Architect

Brian Saunders

Principal Solutions Architect - Lab Services

Brett Turner

Cybersecurity Architect

Marty Squillaci

Manager

Dave Gratz

Technical Solutions Architect

Christopher Hoff

Chris Hoff

Brett Millaway

Technical Solutions Architect - ATC LS

Ryan Salihar

Engineering Manager

Jeff Andiorio

Principal Solutions Architect

Brandon Swagman

Practice Lead

John Dyer

Engineering Manager

Carl Dubois

Practice Lead - Automation (Global Solutions Development)

Eric Jackson

Practice Lead

Ben Kools

Practice Manager, Global Solutions Development

Matthew Halcomb

Principal Solutions Architect

Earl Dodd

HPC, ESG, Sustainability Architect and Alchemist

Kent Noyes

Sr. Director of Cloud Security

John Stillwell

Technical Solutions Architect - Cyber Security

What's popular

OT Security

Security Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for securing the business and powering performance.

WWT Research

Feb 7, 2023

ATC

Cloud Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for optimizing capabilities and aligning priorities with business outcomes.

WWT Research

Dec 1, 2022

Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

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Foundation Lab

5736 launches

ATC

Nlyte DCIM Lab

Gain preliminary understanding of Nlyte's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Suite with this lab environment.

Lab

Foundation Lab

105 launches

Cloud-Native Platforms

Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

166 launches

What's new

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Hackathon Event Advances AI in Medical Research

In a successful two-day hackathon, WWT and NVIDIA experts trained AI models to detect pancreatic tumors through 3D image segmentation, promising advancements in medical research.

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Mar 21, 2023

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ATC

Schneider EcoStruxure IT Advisor

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT DCIM Lab

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Foundation Lab

15 launches

ATC

Juniper SSR SD-WAN Foundation Lab

The Juniper SSR SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to showcase the concept of a Juniper Session Smart Network and demonstrates how it functions in a real-world scenario. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Lab

Foundation Lab

15 launches

Research Note

ATC

Cloud Optimization is Key to Business Success

At its heart, cloud optimization is a financial management discipline that enables organizations to maximize business value by helping IT, engineering, finance and business teams collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.

WWT Research

Mar 20, 2023

ATC

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Lab

IT Administrators will be able to learn the management interface of Microsoft System Center Configuration (SCCM) and the configuration needed to deploy software install packages to Windows 10 desktop. The admin will also view the results of the discovery and installation of the software from the end-user perspective.

Lab

Foundation Lab

11 launches

ATC

Pure Storage Remote Client Plugin for vSphere, vVols and Storage Insights Lab

Welcome to WWT's lab for Pure's Storage Remote Client Plugin for VMware, vVols and Storage Insights. We designed this lab to showcase the new Remote Client Plugin and many of the features it enables for the VMware Administrator as it pertains to storage. After a brief introduction to you will dive right in to getting the Remote Client Plugin virtual appliance deployed and configured along with walking you through the many of the integrations the plugin brings.

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

16 launches

Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

Lab

Foundation Lab

5736 launches

ATC

Juniper Mist Full Stack Fundamentals Lab

Hands on lab for Juniper SD-Branch virtual routers to show WAN-Edge template configuration. Design, deploy and operate the AI-driven branch from a single dashboard. Juniper Differentiates with New AI-Driven SD-WAN Capabilities, Making the WAN Edge Even Easier to Deploy, Manage and Secure. Juniper Full Stack is an integral part of a unique, secure client-to-cloud networking approach designed to provide the best operational experience for operators, as well as the best network and application experience for enterprise customers. It leverages AI and the Juniper Mist Cloud Architecture for proactive insights and automation that take the complexity out of network operations and support.

Lab

Foundation Lab

7 launches

ATC

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

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. With the Zscaler and SD-WAN integration, you can rapidly gain access to cloud-delivered security in minutes. This market leading API automation makes it very fast and agile to deploy and manage the network and security environment of hundreds or even thousands of remote sites.

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

131 launches

ATC

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.

Lab

Foundation Lab

70 launches

TIC 3.0

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Onramp - IaaS with AWS

Cisco SD-WAN provides automated IaaS integrations with cloud vendors via its centralized management console (vManage), providing a simple and standardize way to ensure design best practices.

Video

Feb 24, 2023

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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.

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

125 launches

TIC 3.0

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp - SaaS

Cisco SD-WAN provides automated SaaS optimization tools with its Cloud OnRamp for SaaS to the most popular SaaS applications in the market directly from vManage, providing a simple way to ensure application performance and user experience.

Video

Feb 9, 2023

14:24

OT Security

Security Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for securing the business and powering performance.

WWT Research

Feb 7, 2023

VMware Anywhere Workspace

VMware Workspace One and SASE Lab: Securing the Device and Edge for Remote and Mobile Users

VMware Workspace One and VMware SASE are the key components of remote and mobile end user experience. Using these technologies IT can assure that end users devices and their actions are secure. Workspace One provides a zero-trust architecture with continuous verification of endpoint compliance, by allowing only conditional access to applications, and by reducing the attack surface wherever possible. SASE provides network edge security controls like zero-trust network access, cloud access security, web gateway services and more. This simulation lab will walk you through the settings and features of Workspace One UEM, Workspace One Tunnel and SASE.

Lab

Foundation Lab

15 launches

ATC

CyberArk Privileged Account Management Lab

This is an on-demand lab to demonstrate the basic features and functionality of the CyberArk Privileged Access Security solution.

Lab

Foundation Lab

209 launches

Cohesity Cyber Resilience

Cohesity Essentials Lab

The Cohesity Essentials Lab enables users to learn the fundamental features and functionality of the Cohesity DataPlatform.

Lab

Foundation Lab

512 launches

VMware Anywhere Workspace

VMware Workspace One - Intelligent Hub and Self Support Portal Lab

VMware Workspace One Intelligent Hub (Hub) and the Self Support Portal (SSP) are the key components of VMware's end user experience. Via these tools end users can manage their devices, access and install applications, receive key notifications, conduct people searches, collect logs and more. This simulation will walk you through the settings and features of Workspace One Intelligent Hub and the Self Service Portal.

Lab

Foundation Lab

30 launches

Cyber Range

ATC Lab Gateway Access Test

Lab to be deployed for testing customer access to standard Lab Gateway protocols.

Lab

Sandbox Lab

125 launches

ATC

Migrating Cisco DCNM to NDFC Lab

This lab will enable a student to migrate Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) to Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC).

Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

21 launches