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CRN: Cisco Puts 'Renewed Focus On Select Accounts' In 360 AI Era; WWT's SMB Prowess Is What Cisco Wants
Coogan pointed towards World Wide Technology (WWT) as an ideal partner for Cisco's 360 AI era.
World Wide Technology Awarded U.S. Army GEMSS 2.1 Agreement to Advance Enterprise IT Modernization
Follow-on agreement expands centralized software management, technical support and modernization capabilities across Army operations
Why 82% of Your AI Coding Budget Isn't Shipping Software
AI can now write code and accelerate development, but using AI tools isn't the same as becoming AI-native. Recorded at Cisco Live, this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast features Cisco SVP and Chief Product Officer of the Cisco Security Product Management organization Raj Chopra, WWT SVP of Global Solutions and Architecture Brian Ortbals and WWT VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger discussing how AI is reshaping development and transforming the enterprise.
From Alerts to Outcomes: Modernizing the SOC with WWT and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Join World Wide Technology (WWT) and Palo Alto Networks for an immersive Partner Spotlight virtual event dedicated to advancing Security Operations and SOC excellence. This exclusive session digs into the Palo Alto Networks Cortex product portfolio, with a special emphasis on Cortex XDR. Experts from both organizations will explore how Cortex XDR empowers security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. Attendees will gain actionable insights into integrating Cortex solutions for holistic threat management and operational agility within modern SOCs.
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Fortune: This former U.S. soccer player built a business empire. Now, he says resilience matters more than talent—and points to Lionel Messi as proof
Jim Kavanaugh, a former U.S. Olympian, says the habits that made him an elite athlete also helped him build World Wide Technology into a leading global tech firm.
CRN: Cisco Puts 'Renewed Focus On Select Accounts' In 360 AI Era; WWT's SMB Prowess Is What Cisco Wants
Coogan pointed towards World Wide Technology (WWT) as an ideal partner for Cisco's 360 AI era.
UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing™ 2026
World Wide Technology ranked No. 3 on the 2026 list.
CRN: How WWT's Softchoice Deal Became A Huge Win-Win For Both Companies
New hires, new markets, new opportunities: More than 15 months after the acquisition, WWT and Softchoice are going full steam ahead to leverage the skill sets and the vendor portfolios that each brings to the table
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Partner POV | The Machine Identity Blind Spot Is Now a Primary Attack Surface
Attackers are bypassing human defenses to exploit the vast, ungoverned ecosystem of machine identities.
Managing Shadow AI with Microsoft Security
Microsoft's security suite brings together multiple products to deliver quality protection across any organization. Defender for Cloud Apps provides deep visibility into cloud application usage, shadow IT discovery, and real-time threat detection across your environment. Microsoft Purview extends that protection with robust data loss prevention, compliance management, and sensitive information classification to ensure critical data stays in the right hands. Microsoft Intune rounds out the suite with modern endpoint management, giving administrators full control over the devices accessing organizational resources — connecting identity, data, and device health into a single unified security posture.
NetApp ONTAP Sandbox
This NetApp ONTAP Sandbox is provided by the ATC as an environment to get hands on experience with NetApp ONTAP and its functions. This is a virtualized environment, running on the NetApp ONTAP Simulator version 9.18.1, as well as several host OS to test various functions.
Hermes Agent - The Agent That Remembers You
Learn to deploy the Nous Research Hermes Agent, backed by NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B, as a persistent infrastructure co-pilot. This hands-on lab guides you through configuring persistent memory across multiple surfaces (the terminal, Mattermost, and a desktop app), enforcing custom engineering standards, and compiling repeatable infrastructure workflows into reusable skills.
Special Olympics: From Paper Schedules to the Most Ambitious App in USA Games History
Using AI, WWT built the Champions app to deliver more than anyone thought possible for every athlete, coach, fan, volunteer, delegate and guest in attendance.
Detecting and Responding to Device Health Score Degradation
Learners will build a network assurance workflow that connects live device health data from Cisco Catalyst Center with the NetBox source of truth. The playbook queries device health scores, evaluates them against a configurable threshold, identifies degraded devices, and writes the resulting health status back into NetBox for operational visibility.
Enterprise AI at Scale: The Architecture Behind the NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel
Four layers. One validated stack. A clear path from deployment to enterprise-wide production. Deploying AI at enterprise scale requires the right architecture, not just the right ambition. This guide walks through the four-layer stack of the NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel, the deployment paths WWT supports, and the strategic data points that make the case for acting now.
AI Inferencing Without the Infrastructure Overhaul
How the NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel lets organizations put proprietary data to work in existing data centers, at department scale, without GPU complexity. AI inferencing doesn't have to mean GPU procurement, liquid cooling, or a rearchitected data center. The NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel was built for the organizations that already have the data — and need a production path that fits where they are today.
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Army GEMSS Digital Modernization Community
The Army GEMSS 2.1 contract is your one-stop-shop for Cisco network, collaboration, security, data center, and Meraki software licensing. Army GEMSS also includes design and support services and Cisco education & training. World Wide Technology is a Cisco Preferred 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 II (GEMSS II) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a one-year program following the GEMSS 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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What is the Fortinet Security Fabric?
Fortinet's Platform, the Security Fabric, is a strong network and security solution at all levels. The Platform combines the principles of convergence and consolidation to deliver comprehensive, real-time cybersecurity protection spanning users to applications.
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.
CrowdStrike CTF: Falcon
CrowdStrike delivers a unified platform approach to modern security so you can protect and build your future. This game incorporates several new features of CrowdStrike, offering a unique opportunity to test your skills against the latest in cybersecurity technology.
Tools utilized within the game:
🔷Crowdstrike Falcon (EDR tool, end point protection and analysis)
🔷Crowdstrike Logscale (History and logging)
🔷CrowdStrike Cloud Security
🔷CrowdStrike Identity Threat Protection
This is a mixed capture the flag style event that will require you and your team to zero in on malicious actors inside of a network, identify vulnerable or outdated services, and brace yourself for a real-time series of cyber attacks. Points will be awarded for finding those exploits, remediating them to the best of your ability and defending Iron Guardian's network.
Fostering responsible AI: How WashU is building a smarter approach to risk and governance
When AI usage increased across departments, Washington University in St. Louis needed a way to manage it responsibly without slowing innovation. Learn how WWT helped the university assess its AI risk posture, align stakeholders and build a plan for a scalable governance framework.
Trending in Cloud
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
Cloud Center of Excellence: The Missing Engine Behind Scalable Governance and Enterprise Cloud Success
Stop managing cloud. Start driving results.
Private Cloud: What Teams Get Wrong (and How to Fix It)
Private cloud sounds simple until you sit in the room where the decisions get made. Everyone agrees they want it — but everyone means something different. That's where things start to drift. Teams buy hardware, timelines get tight, and suddenly the foundation is poured before anyone agrees on what the cloud is supposed to deliver.
Cloud, FinOps and AI: What You Need to Know About Unit Economics, GPUs and the ROI Flywheel
AI has pushed cloud into overdrive. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top cloud experts — Jack French and Todd Barron — reset the approach and detail why cloud is the launchpad but portability is the strategy; how to start greenfield with containers and abstraction; what a real FinOps model for AI looks like (unit economics, tagging, token/GPU visibility); where neo clouds fit versus hyperscalers; and how to handle cross-cloud risk and skill gaps; and the governance moves that accelerate—not restrict—innovation.
Trending in Digital Transformation
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.
WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE)
WWT's Demonstration lab for industrial IT/OT collaboration
How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core
There are numerous ways to clone an object in C# .NET Core. This article explores some of the approaches you can use to make a deep copy of an object and the pros and cons of each method.
Navigating the Mythos Reality: 3 Questions Every Exec Must Answer About Frontier AI
Frontier AI is moving faster than traditional cyber defenses while access to models such as Mythos and Fable can change without warning. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Chief National Security and Critical Infrastructure Advisor Madison Horn and Field CTO Robert Geis explain why security leaders must look beyond any single model and answer three urgent questions: How do we defend at machine speed? Which tools can we trust? And who is accountable when a critical dependency changes or disappears?
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Data: The Forgotten Ingredient to Automation and AI Success
Holistic automation and AI capabilities are possible when organizations mature their data practices.
AI at a Standstill? How Automation Unlocks Real ROI
In this episode of WWT Presents Research, host Robb Boyd and Corey Wanless, a principal solutions architect, explore ways in which organizations can automate infrastructure and processes for AI success.
Most Data Centers Aren't Ready for AI
You can buy the GPUs but that doesn't mean you can run them.
Across the enterprise, AI investment is accelerating but the infrastructure behind it is lagging further than most teams realize. Power ceilings are being hit. Cooling systems are stretched. Floor space and rack density are becoming real constraints. And in many cases, organizations are discovering these limits after the hardware shows up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.5)
The Cisco Catalyst 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.
WWT Agentic Network Assistant
Explore the WWT Agentic Network Assistant, a browser-based AI tool that converts natural language into Cisco CLI commands, executes them across multiple devices, and delivers structured analysis. Using a local LLM, it streamlines troubleshooting, summarizes device health, and compares configs, demonstrating the future of intuitive, AI driven network operations.
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)
CrowdStrike Proving Ground Lab
WWT's ATC CrowdStrike Proving Ground Lab exists to showcase the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's web UI and ability to alert on, and prevent, breaches using cloud data and machine learning.
Partner Spotlight
Thales
Thales is a global leader in cybersecurity, helping the most trusted organizations protect critical applications, data, identities, and software anywhere, at scale. Through Thales' integrated platforms, customers achieve better visibility of risks, defend against cyber threats, close compliance gaps, and deliver trusted digital experiences for billions of consumers every day.
Partner POV | Quantum-Safe Doesn't Mean Secure: The Dangerous Misconception That Will Undermine PQC Adoption in 2026
Quantum-safe cryptography is crucial but insufficient for future cybersecurity. As quantum threats loom, organizations must adopt a holistic strategy integrating identity management, application security, and AI-driven threat detection. Relying solely on quantum-resistant algorithms risks overlooking vulnerabilities, necessitating a comprehensive defense-in-depth approach to safeguard digital assets effectively.
Partner POV | AI, Cloud, and the New Financial Services Data Threat Calculus
AI is reshaping financial services security, outpacing traditional models. With only 49% of sensitive cloud data encrypted, AI's rapid adoption exposes vulnerabilities. The report urges closing data visibility gaps, consolidating tools, and funding AI security distinctly. Quantum and sovereignty concerns demand proactive strategies to maintain trust amid accelerating change.
Partner POV | Securing the Next Generation of AI: Thales and Google Partner to Protect the AI Agent Ecosystem
As enterprises embrace agentic AI, the AI Agent Gateway emerges as a crucial control plane, expanding the attack surface. Thales partners with Google to enhance security, offering real-time visibility and threat protection. Imperva for Google Cloud ensures secure client-agent, agent-model, and agent-tool interactions, balancing innovation speed with robust security.