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Decoupled by Design: Why Cloud-managed Networks Still Require On-premises Data Plane Aggregation
With Cisco's Campus Gateway and Juniper's Mist Edge converging on the same architectural principle, centralized data-plane aggregation is now an expectation.
Agentic AI Is Coming for Software Development — Are Enterprises Ready?
As AI coding assistants move from novelty to necessity, enterprises are discovering that the real challenge is managing what happens before and after the code is created. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's executive AI advisor Nate McKie explains why faster code generation is only half the answer — and why leaders who don't reinvest the time they're saving are already falling behind.
Building an AI-First Workforce: A Guide for C-Suite Leaders
This guide helps enterprise leaders turn AI investments into real workforce impact. Learn how to embed AI into daily work, close adoption gaps, and lead the cultural, operational and governance shifts required to scale Workforce AI across the organization.
F5 celebrates outstanding partners with 2025 North America Partner Awards
Honoring partners who are driving innovation, growth and customer impact across North America
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Forbes' America's Best Employers for Company Culture 2026
Forbes recognizes employers across the U.S. for building strong, values‑driven workplace cultures
World Wide Technology Ranked No. 2 on the Best Workplaces™ in Costa Rica 2026
This marks WWT's second consecutive year on the list.
FORBES 250: The Greatest Self-Made Americans
To identify these revolutionaries, they first mined Forbes' 109-year-deep archive for classic tales of entrepreneurial capitalism. Then they asked the current crop of beat reporters from Forbes for their ideas.
Softchoice, a World Wide Technology Company, Ranked Number #4 on the 2026 Best Workplaces™ in Canada List
For 21 consecutive years, Softchoice remains a top employer for culture and excellent employee experience.
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How Jack in the Box is Building the Data Foundation for AI
What does it really take to make AI useful in the enterprise? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jack in the Box VP of Data and Analytics Paul Bruffett and WWT Managing Director of AI and Data Analytics Daniel Morrisroe detail how to turn fragmented data, legacy systems and disconnected workflows into an operational foundation the business can actually use. From modular data products and self-service analytics to forecasting, personalization and the road to more autonomous systems, this conversation offers practical lessons for leaders trying to move from modernization to measurable AI outcomes.
The Future of Observability With Splunk Powered by Agentic AI
Splunk keeps your digital environment visible and resilient, so you can focus on building, innovating, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. The past was reactive, the future is proactive — explore what Splunk Observability, powered by Agentic AI, can do for your organization.
Partner POV | Every Cursor Needs a Coder: Unblocking AI Coding Tools in the Enterprise
AI coding tools boost productivity but pose security risks when run locally, leading to governance challenges. Coder offers a solution with self-hosted environments, ensuring secure, scalable AI development. By integrating with existing security frameworks, Coder balances innovation with control, enabling enterprises to harness AI's potential without compromising security.
Top Digital Experience Monitoring Solutions for Employee Experience
Our experts have evaluated, tested and deployed eight leading DEM solutions in our Advanced Technology Center to provide insights into key strengths, capabilities and ideal use cases.
Partner POV | What Is Lateral Movement in Cybersecurity?
Lateral movement in cybersecurity allows attackers to stealthily navigate networks post-breach, escalating privileges and accessing sensitive data. This technique transforms minor breaches into major threats. Understanding and preventing lateral movement through deep network visibility, Zero Trust, and least privilege access is crucial for safeguarding organizational assets.
Partner POV | Secure-by-Design: Microsoft and Rubrik's Engineered Cyber Resilience Architecture
Cyber resilience transcends mere products, demanding architectural foresight and integration. Microsoft and Rubrik exemplify this through a "Secure-By-Design" approach, ensuring robust identity management, data sovereignty, and recovery workflows within Azure. This partnership fortifies organizations against disruptions, embedding resilience as an inherent architectural outcome, not an afterthought.
Partner POV | Modernizing Your Infrastructure: A Practical Framework for VKS on VMware Cloud Foundation
Transitioning to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service on VMware Cloud Foundation marks a pivotal architectural shift. This article explores a phased methodology—Assess, Plan, and Pilot; Build and Integrate; Replatform—ensuring a seamless, scalable modernization. Discover how precision in implementation, not just technology, drives successful digital transformation.
Partner POV | VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6: Making Enterprise Kubernetes Safer, More Flexible, and Easier to Operate
VKS 3.6 revolutionizes Kubernetes operations with enhanced upgrade predictability, performance tuning, and ecosystem flexibility. By supporting diverse OS choices and partner integrations, it aligns with real-world enterprise needs, reducing surprises and operational risks.
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Army GEMSS Digital Modernization Community
The Army GEMSS EA is your one-stop-shop for Cisco network security, software, design and support services, and training. World Wide Technology is a Cisco Systems Gold Partner, combining our shared expertise to provide the U.S. Army with the latest Cisco products and innovations to serve the American Soldier.
Associate Academy
This Community Page illustrates and highlights key aspects of the various early in career programs the Global Workforce Enablement supports and serves as a centralized location of relevant topics for stakeholders.
Navy Digital Modernization Community
The Global Enterprise Modernization Software and Services (GEMSS) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a five-year Navy program designed to maximize the Department of the Navy (DON) investment in the use of existing hardware while supporting the smooth transition of ongoing software maintenance for upgrades and patches to software subscriptions for the Department of Defense infrastructures already in-place at installations worldwide.
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How to Use ARMOR: A Guide to AI Security Transformation
ARMOR, a vendor-agnostic AI security framework, offers comprehensive guidance across six domains to secure AI deployments and protect against dynamic and fast-moving threats.
Cisco AI Defense CTF
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Join us for Cisco AI Defense, an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
This is a single player CTF, which will be open for 72 hours. We will have a shared scoreboard. Should players finish with equal scores, final placement will be awarded to the player who achieved their last correct submission in the least amount of time from their first submission.
Powered by our advanced Cyber Range platform, this immersive simulation challenges participants to exploit and defend against real-world AI vulnerabilities — including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and misuse of generative models. You'll see firsthand how Cisco's AI Defense identifies and mitigates these threats in real time.
Securing AI in Motion: Gigamon Deep Observability for WWT ARMOR
Gain insights into Gigamon's role in strengthening AI security through improved network visibility, alongside WWT's AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR) framework. Kent Noyes (WWT), Bassam Khan (Gigamon), and Istvan Berko (WWT) discuss how rapid AI adoption is expanding the attack surface and why organizations need governance, data controls, and visibility into data flows to innovate securely. The session outlines ARMOR's focus areas (including governance/compliance, model protection, data security operations, and secure development lifecycle) and explains how Gigamon's east-west traffic visibility and metadata extraction can support detection, investigations, and AI-driven analytics for SOC and operational use cases.
World Wide Technology's Women's Brunch at RSAC (women only event)
We are delighted to invite you to our exclusive Women's Brunch taking place during the RSA Conference on Wednesday, March 25, from 9:00–11:00 AM PT at The Veranda.
Join a dynamic community of women leaders and innovators in cybersecurity for a thoughtfully curated morning designed to bring people together in a warm, welcoming, and engaging setting. This gathering is intended to create space for meaningful connection, conversation, and community, an opportunity to connect with peers, exchange perspectives, and foster lasting relationships over great food and even better company.
In addition to brunch, guests will enjoy a professional headshot booth and a custom bracelet station, adding a fun and personal touch to the morning.
We look forward to bringing together an incredible group of women across cybersecurity for a memorable and elevated social gathering centered on connection, community, and celebrating the impact women continue to have across our industry.
Trending in Cloud
Agentic AI Is Coming for Software Development — Are Enterprises Ready?
As AI coding assistants move from novelty to necessity, enterprises are discovering that the real challenge is managing what happens before and after the code is created. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's executive AI advisor Nate McKie explains why faster code generation is only half the answer — and why leaders who don't reinvest the time they're saving are already falling behind.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
What We Learned at NVIDIA GTC 2026
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the conversation shifted from model novelty to enterprise reality. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Chief AI Advisor Tim Brooks explains why agentic AI, inference-heavy workloads and physical AI are forcing CIOs and CTOs to rethink infrastructure, governance, trust and leadership.
Invisible AI: What AI Leaders Can Learn from IHG Hotels & Resorts' AI Strategy
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, AI is being applied with a clear principle: make the employee more effective so the customer experience feels more human. That approach, according to IHG CTO Jolie Fleming, who joined us in our latest episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, offers a useful model for any leader trying to scale AI adoption without losing trust, control or business focus.
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Scaling AI Across the Workforce to Empower Every Employee
In 2024, organizations laid the groundwork for AI transformation, and now in 2025, it's time to cement your AI strategy. Join WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis as they share insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace Priorities research report. You'll hear their unique perspectives on treating AI like a new employee and guidance on transitioning from proof-of-concept to organization-wide AI implementation so you can empower every employee.
Compressing Idea to Outcome (I2O): WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh on Why AI Coding Assistants Could Reshape the Enterprise
AI-powered coding assistants are rapidly compressing the time it takes to build software and delivering a competitive advantage that can lead to transformational outcomes. But according to WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh, the bigger shift is organizational: companies must rethink leadership, data strategy and workforce skills to compete in an AI-native world. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares his vision for how coding assistants are emerging as one of the most practical and disruptive use cases in enterprise AI.
Agentic AI Is Coming for Software Development — Are Enterprises Ready?
As AI coding assistants move from novelty to necessity, enterprises are discovering that the real challenge is managing what happens before and after the code is created. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's executive AI advisor Nate McKie explains why faster code generation is only half the answer — and why leaders who don't reinvest the time they're saving are already falling behind.
What We Learned at NVIDIA GTC 2026
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the conversation shifted from model novelty to enterprise reality. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Chief AI Advisor Tim Brooks explains why agentic AI, inference-heavy workloads and physical AI are forcing CIOs and CTOs to rethink infrastructure, governance, trust and leadership.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN for the beginner
The article below covers VXLAN encapsulation and how MP-BGP is used to learn and forward layer two and layer three traffic across the encapsulation. To better understand the content, we recommended that readers have prior knowledge of BGP and the MP-BGP routing protocol. For those unfamiliar with these concepts, we suggest reading our foundational learning path's "MP-BGP for the beginner" article beforehand. It's important to note that MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN may initially seem intimidating, but this beginner's guide will clearly understand how it works. It's a technology that has gained popularity over the last few years, with many companies adopting it.
Securing AI in Motion: Gigamon Deep Observability for WWT ARMOR
Gain insights into Gigamon's role in strengthening AI security through improved network visibility, alongside WWT's AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR) framework. Kent Noyes (WWT), Bassam Khan (Gigamon), and Istvan Berko (WWT) discuss how rapid AI adoption is expanding the attack surface and why organizations need governance, data controls, and visibility into data flows to innovate securely. The session outlines ARMOR's focus areas (including governance/compliance, model protection, data security operations, and secure development lifecycle) and explains how Gigamon's east-west traffic visibility and metadata extraction can support detection, investigations, and AI-driven analytics for SOC and operational use cases.
Powering the Next Frontier of Academic Research at The Texas A&M University System
Discover how The Texas A&M University System partnered with WWT to build VISION, one of the largest supercomputing environments in higher education that's powering a new wave of discovery, collaboration and high-performance experimentation.
Compressing Idea to Outcome (I2O): WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh on Why AI Coding Assistants Could Reshape the Enterprise
AI-powered coding assistants are rapidly compressing the time it takes to build software and delivering a competitive advantage that can lead to transformational outcomes. But according to WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh, the bigger shift is organizational: companies must rethink leadership, data strategy and workforce skills to compete in an AI-native world. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares his vision for how coding assistants are emerging as one of the most practical and disruptive use cases in enterprise AI.
Top Labs
Cisco AI Defense Capture the Flag (CTF)
Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
Cyber Range - Initiation
Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.
F5 AI Guardrails
In this lab we will explore F5 AI Guardrails which is a runtime security platform for generative AI and agentic AI systems, focused on securing the AI inference layer—the point where models receive prompts and generate outputs.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 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.
Cisco SD-Access Fabric with Catalyst Center (2.3.7.9) Foundations Lab
Cisco Catalyst Center takes a software-delivered approach to automating and assuring services across your campus, WAN and branch networks. Based on an open and extensible platform, Catalyst Center allows you to build value on the network, so you can streamline operations and facilitate IT and business innovation. This lab closely matches the Cisco SD-Access Foundation lab.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6.1(3f), emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity.
The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
AI Prompt Injection Lab
Explore the hidden dangers of prompt injection in Large Language Models (LLMs). This lab reveals how attackers manipulate LLMs to disclose private information and behave in ways that they were not intended to. Discover the intricacies of direct and indirect prompt injection and learn to implement effective guardrails.
Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab
The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (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 the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Partner Spotlight
Rubrik
Rubrik offers on-premise and cloud based data management solutions to enable customers to leverage the cloud in a simplified way
Getting Started With Rubrik
The Rubrik Data Protection Fundamentals Learning Path will introduce you to the basic features and functionality of Rubrik. Learn about Rubrik's next-generation data management solution that goes beyond traditional data backups.
Rubrik Agent Cloud: End-to-End AI Agent Governance Overview
See Rubrik Agent Cloud in Action. Take back control of your AI and unleash agents without all the risk. Watch our short product walkthrough to learn how you can monitor your agents, govern their actions, and remediate their mistakes in minutes. Rubrik Agent Cloud enables your organizations to deliver AI transformation and deploy agents at scale with confidence.
Partner POV | Now Generally Available: Rubrik and Everpure Cyber Visibility Integration
Rubrik and Pure Storage's integration revolutionizes cyber recovery by combining rapid snapshot restoration with robust threat detection. This seamless solution offers instant visibility and near-zero RTO recovery, eliminating the traditional trade-off between speed and security. Experience unparalleled data protection and resilience, available for deployment today.