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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Networking Priorities for 2022

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

WWT Research

Apr 7, 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.

Advanced Configuration Lab

134 launches

ESG High Performance Computing (HPC)

Corporate Sustainability Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for improving corporate sustainability and reaching important Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) milestones.

WWT Research

Oct 21, 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.

Foundation Lab

5477 launches

Lab ATC

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 10 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.

Foundation Lab

67 launches

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ATC WWT Research

Cloud Priorities for 2023

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

WWT Research

Dec 2, 2022

Lab Beyond Identity

Beyond Identity Foundations Lab

This lab features Beyond Identity which is an authentication solution that uses device-bound credentials for zero-friction passwordless authentication. Beyond Identity is a cloud-native platform that uses Authenticators downloaded on endpoints which registers a users credentials and collects signals on the endpoint to capture device security posture for authentication.

Foundation Lab

19 launches

Lab ATC

Linux Basics for Automation Engineers

The everyday life of an automation engineer will invariably require a fundamental understanding of Linux. This lab is focused on exposing aspiring automation engineers to the foundational concepts of the Linux operating system.

Foundation Lab

21 launches

Video ATC

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp -- Equinix

Cisco SD-WAN provides automated integrations with Equinix that allow you to turn up edge devices as well as connectivity to cloud environments directly from vManage, providing a centralized place to manage all your infrastructure.

Nov 28, 2022

11:16

Lab ATC

Pure Storage FA Files Lab

In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure FA Files on a FlashArray along with setting up replication to a second FlashArray.

Advanced Configuration Lab

10 launches

Lab ATC

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.9)

The Cisco SD-WAN 20.9 Sandbox is a capability of the ATC designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the latest features in the Cisco SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the Cisco SD-WAN 20.9 Sandbox is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Sandbox Lab

12 launches

ATC WWT Research

A Modular Approach to AIOps

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) continues to become more mainstream. Learn how a modular approach to AIOps allows organizations to better leverage data to drive efficiency.

WWT Research

Nov 15, 2022

News ATC

Liqid Releases New Slurm Plugin and CXL Demo at SC22

Liqid is a core element of World Wide Technology's new Composable Open Technology Environment

Nov 15, 2022

3 min read

Lab ATC

Cisco ACI Multisite Lab 2 - ACI and VMM Policy 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 consume easier.

Advanced Configuration Lab

481 launches

Lab ATC

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Lab

This lab will enable a student to build a basic multi-site fabric using Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) for complete end-to-end connectivity.

Advanced Configuration Lab

11 launches

Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware Cloud Foundation: vRealize Suite Cloud Operations Model

This lab introduces the consumption of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based VMware Cloud using vRealize Cloud Assembly. Participants will gain experience with using Vrealize Automation Cloud Assembly to deploy application workloads onto preconfigured NSX Segments and firewall policies.

Foundation Lab

2 launches

Lab ATC

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.

Foundation Lab

328 launches

Lab ATC

NetApp BlueXP

BlueXP (Formerly known as Cloud Manager) is NetApp's SaaS platform that gives customers visibility across their entire data plane, whether it be in the cloud or in their data centers.

Foundation Lab

170 launches

Lab HPE GreenLake

HPE GreenLake Central Lab

HPE Greenlake Central is cloud-based management console for HPE Greenlake services.

Guided Demo Lab

6 launches

Lab ATC

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 10 Lab

Foundation Lab

67 launches

Lab ATC

Crowdstrike and Zscaler Integrated Lab

WWT's ATC CrowdStrike and Zscaler Integrated lab exists to showcase the integration between CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform, Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Client Connector through relevant use cases.

Advanced Configuration Lab

40 launches

Article Secure Cloud and Data Center Connectivity

Simplify Distributed Cloud Management With F5 Distributed Cloud Services Platform

In this ATC Insight, we will explore how F5 Distributed Cloud Services platform (F5 XC Services) can simplify the management of applications deployed across multiple cloud providers in multiple Kubernetes clusters. WWT, through its use of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) & F5 XC Services has proven how easy it is to establish cloud-to-cloud connectivity, layer security policies and discover API workloads for distributed cloud framework.

Oct 28, 2022

8 min read

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 2 - SR Explicit Policy

This is the third video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

7:17

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 3 - L3VPN Service

This is the fourth video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

19:09

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 1 - SID List

This is the second video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

8:45