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Delivering optimal enterprise storage solutions, from strategy to execution

Primary storage solutions are at the foundation of every data center. With legacy storage systems stretched to their limits and trends like consumption-based offerings, cloud-adoption models, unstructured data management and ransomware remediation gaining momentum, IT and business leaders need storage solutions that will keep up with the technology landscape and maximize their IT investments.

With our expertise, we can help you choose a storage solution that will manage exponential data growth; deliver optimal performance to the end-user; and secure your data and enhance cyber recovery.

Our goal is to help you make the right technology decisions faster.

What's new in WWT storage

Check out the latest perspective from our experts in the field.

Primary Storage

Top 8 Trends in Data Storage

WWT storage industry experts dive into eight data storage trends, based on customer insights, testing in the ATC and OEM partnerships.

Article

• Mar 28, 2022

Primary Storage

What Is Data Storage? Data Storage Types Compared

Learn what data storage is and which types of data storage architectures are best suited to accommodate different operational requirements.

Article

• Jul 16, 2021

Primary Storage

11 Steps Toward Faster ROI From Your Technology Decisions

For organizations to realize value from their technology investments sooner, IT leaders need to make informed decisions quickly and holistically.

Article

• May 3, 2023

Data Protection

10 Steps You Can Take Now to Address Major Data Challenges

Learn how your organization can address cyber resilience, handle application modernization and data management in a multicloud environment, focus on exponential data growth and be able to better track time to value.

Article

• Aug 18, 2022

Primary Storage

Primary Storage Infrastructure Workshop

Workshop

• 8 hrs

Data storage solutions and services

Whether you're looking to modernize your infrastructure, migrate to the cloud or consolidate your data center, the right storage solution will depend on your organization's unique needs and goals. Our certified experts can help you choose, implement and optimize the right approach.

Converged & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Seamlessly integrate compute, storage, networking and infrastructure management software into one optimized platform.

Cloud Data Management

Take advantage of cloud scalability with enterprise data services available across your choice of cloud.

Private Cloud

Building, modernizing, securing and optimizing private cloud environments.

Public Cloud

On-demand computing services and infrastructure managed by third-party providers, shared with multiple organizations over the public internet.

Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience is the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on cyber resources.

Data Protection

Eliminate complexity across physical, virtual and cloud storage tiers while developing strategies to control data volume growth and streamline how you store, manage and leverage data assets.

Featured events

Join our experts to learn more about the following topics:

Inside the ATC Cloud: Cloud Data Management with NetApp and Google Cloud

We're offering an exclusive and in-depth review of how NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) in Google Cloud can be a cornerstone of your cloud journey. Our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is unlike any other testing and research lab in the industry. Our customers use the ATC to quickly demo and validate multi-vendor cloud solutions with incredible speed. The ATC lab environment also makes it easy to test integrations between multiple ISV and CSP solutions. There is simply no other environment available to customers today that can rival the ATC's showcase ability. WWT is one of the leading channel partners for NetApp and Google Cloud solutions. The ATC is currently home to more than 40 NetApp products and solutions as well as the full Google Cloud Platform suite. With decades of experience consulting, building, and deploying cloud solutions, our experts can seamlessly help you bridge the gap between traditional OnPrem NetApp environments and Google Cloud.

Webinar

• May 24, 2022 • 2pm

Featured labs

Infrastructure Automation

NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

760 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity 6.1 using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into Ansible Tower to understand how they work together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

649 launches

Primary Storage

Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab

Pure Storage has released synchronous replication technology in its FlashArray series of products. That product is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in an vSphere 7.0 deployment.

Advanced Configuration Lab

130 launches

Data Protection

Zerto Essentials Lab

Zerto Virtual Replication provides simple business continuity and disaster recovery for VMware virtual machines using a VMware vCenter Server embedded graphical interface. During this demo, we will provide an overview of the Zerto product, including how to manage and protect virtual machines using protection groups and explore the RPO/RTO of recovery using Zerto's replication features.

Foundations Lab

58 launches

Primary Storage

Hitachi Vantara Ops Center

This lab will introduce you to the Hitachi Ops Center software and its centralized use of administrating, analyzing, automating and protecting your mission-critical business systems.

Foundations Lab

93 launches

Primary Storage

HPE Primera Storage

The HPE Primera Storage Lab allows our partners, customers and WWT engineers to play with and experience the latest HPE enterprise storage system.

Foundations Lab

85 launches

HPE-dHCI Lab

This lab demonstrates the ease of installation with HPE dHCI.

Foundations Lab

33 launches

Cloud Data Management

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.

Advanced Configuration Lab

71 launches

Case studies

Primary Storage

Energy Infrastructure Company Gains Data Visibility Through File Analysis

WWT assesses a customer's data usage patterns and file attributes to help them optimize the utilization of storage resources, realize cost savings and develop processes to audit consumption.

Case Study

• Oct 3, 2022

Streamlining IT Complexity Improves Tribal Casino Gaming Operations

WWT accelerates tribal gaming operations using Dell EMC VxRail™.

Case Study

• Sep 9, 2022

Server Infrastructure

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.

Case Study

• Aug 25, 2022

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Connect with our experts

Hyung Kim

Technical Solutions Architect

Justin Field

Technical Solutions Architect

Dale Darby

Technical Solutions Arch III

Derik Heidemann

Mgr, ATC

Mike Valora

Technical Solutions Architect

Derek Elbert

Technical Solutions Architect

John Lochausen

Technical Solution Architect

Kurt Fultz

Business Development Manager - Storage

Ryan Avery

Storage Technical Solutions Architect

Frank Holliman

Technical Solutions Architect - Performance Data Solutions

Brian Bartell

Practice Manager - Global Solutions and Architectures

What's popular

Is Your IT Infrastructure Built for Tomorrow?

To remain competitive in today's global markets, organizations must determine which IT infrastructure makes sense for their business needs, now and in the future.

Article

• Mar 23, 2023

Primary Storage

What Is Dell APEX?

Learn more about Dell APEX and what it can offer organizations looking to support various data and workload requirements with a scalable, consumption-based hardware as a service offering.

Article

• Feb 17, 2022

Primary Storage

What Is Dell EMC Data Domain?

Learn more about Dell's leading data deduplication and storage solution and how it can make your organization more cyber resilient and resistant to data storage failures.

Article

• Feb 20, 2022

Infrastructure Automation

NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

760 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity 6.1 using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into Ansible Tower to understand how they work together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

649 launches

What's new

Infrastructure Automation

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity 6.1 using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into Ansible Tower to understand how they work together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

649 launches

Infrastructure Automation

NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

760 launches

Primary Storage

Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab

Pure Storage has released synchronous replication technology in its FlashArray series of products. That product is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in an vSphere 7.0 deployment.

Advanced Configuration Lab

130 launches

Primary Storage

IBM Think 2023 - Recap and Highlights

IBM held its annual Think conference in Orlando, Florida, the week of May 8-11. Think is IBM's flagship event and focuses on business leaders across multiple industries.

Article

• May 26, 2023

Primary Storage

NetApp Delivers Affordable, Sustainable All-Flash Storage With New C-Series Lineup

NetApp's new C-Series capacity flash lineup brings all-flash into reach for more organizations than ever before—providing them with performance, efficiency and sustainability.

Article

• May 23, 2023

Cloud Data Management

Leverage IaaS, PaaS and SaaS with NetApp Cloud Data Services

Get an overview of NetApp's cloud data services portfolio with a focus on product synergies and use cases.

Article

• May 23, 2023

HPE-dHCI Lab

This lab demonstrates the ease of installation with HPE dHCI.

Foundations Lab

33 launches

Primary Storage

Hitachi Vantara Ops Center

This lab will introduce you to the Hitachi Ops Center software and its centralized use of administrating, analyzing, automating and protecting your mission-critical business systems.

Foundations Lab

93 launches

Primary Storage

HPE Primera Storage

The HPE Primera Storage Lab allows our partners, customers and WWT engineers to play with and experience the latest HPE enterprise storage system.

Foundations Lab

85 launches

Primary Storage

Pure's Superpowers: Sustainable Technology and a Responsive Supply Chain

Pure is collaborating with our partners to help customers uplevel the sustainability of the storage and data management solutions in their data centers.

Article

• May 9, 2023

Primary Storage

The Four Cs of Sustainability

Sustainable IT solutions should address the four Cs of sustainability: cost, consumption models, containerization and climate.

Article

• May 9, 2023

Primary Storage

Meet Business Needs with Evergreen//One

No matter your role, benefit from the cloud economics of on-premises and hybrid-cloud storage as a service.

Article

• May 5, 2023

Primary Storage

The High Price of Insight

How Pure Storage and Intel are reducing the energy cost and environmental impact of big data.

Article

• May 4, 2023

Primary Storage

11 Steps Toward Faster ROI From Your Technology Decisions

For organizations to realize value from their technology investments sooner, IT leaders need to make informed decisions quickly and holistically.

Article

• May 3, 2023

Primary Storage

The Top 10 Reasons to Choose Evergreen//One

Get enterprise-grade, hybrid-cloud storage as a service (STaaS) that is effortless, efficient and Evergreen.

Article

• May 3, 2023

Primary Storage

Today's Ask: A Cloud-Like Experience for Every Workload

See how HPE Alletra delivers flexibility and cost predictability whether you're in cloud, at the edge or returning to on-premises.

Article

• May 3, 2023

Primary Storage

Optimize Your Healthcare IT Ecosystem

Optimize your healthcare IT ecosystem to prepare for today's needs, tomorrow's changes and enhanced patient care.

Article

• May 3, 2023

Cloud Data Management

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.

Advanced Configuration Lab

71 launches

Primary Storage

The New Pure FlashBlade Family | Partner Spotlight

Learn how WWT and Pure Storage deliver a simplified experience for infrastructure and data management. FlashBlade is a consolidated storage platform for both file and object workloads that's easy to set up, manage, and scale.

Webinar

Apr 27, 2023 • 9am

Primary Storage

Pure Storage FlashBlade

The Pure Storage Flashblade is an elastic scale out file and object, all flash storage solution that gives customers an advanced data hub approach to managing their data. WWT has partnered with Pure Storage to provide this lab giving access to the Purity operating environment on Flashblade Hardware in the Advanced Technology Center.

Foundations Lab

257 launches