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Cisco AI PODs: A Groundbreaking Advancement in AI Infrastructure
Cisco AI PODs offer a plug-and-play AI infrastructure solution, integrating compute, storage, networking, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for seamless deployment. Optimized for various AI workloads, these pre-validated bundles accelerate AI adoption, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Centralized management and flexible integration make AI infrastructure straightforward and future-ready. Available now!
NVIDIA Blueprint: PDF Ingestion
NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.
Introducing the Pure Storage FlashArray //XL
Get our perspective on the new FlashArray //XL launch from Pure Storage.
AIPG: Innovation Lab with NVIDIA DGX
NVIDIA DGX H100 integration and validation environment for enterprise AI workflows.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – Key Storage Takeaways
WWT attended the annual GTC conference in San Jose this year, and high-performance storage was highlighted during the keynote. This blog is a summary of the announcements made at GTC by the leading vendors providing high-performance storage solutions for AI and HPC use cases.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
The Pure Storage FlashBlade family 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//FB operating environment on FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E Hardware in the Advanced Technology Center. This lab showcases Pure's RapidFile Toolkit that supercharges common Linux operating system commands running against NFS File Shares on the FlashBlade.
Pure Ansible Automation Lab
If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray.
*** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
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.
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.
Pure FlashArray Files Video Series
As part of the Purity//FA 6.3 release, this playlist offers four videos covering the File System capabilities within a Pure FlashArray. Video 1: File System Setup — Video 2: File Replication Setup — Video 3: Day 2 Operations — Video 4: DR Testing and Failover
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.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – Key Storage Takeaways
WWT attended the annual GTC conference in San Jose this year, and high-performance storage was highlighted during the keynote. This blog is a summary of the announcements made at GTC by the leading vendors providing high-performance storage solutions for AI and HPC use cases.
How Cisco and Pure are Shaping the Future for Enterprise AI
FlashStack unifies high-performance computing, GPU acceleration and advanced storage in a cohesive platform. Backed by Cisco Validated Designs, it ensures seamless integration and reduced deployment risks. Combined with Cisco's AI POD, FlashStack addresses AI deployment challenges, offering a future-ready blueprint for innovation and efficiency. To gain hands-on expertise, explore WWT's AI Proving Ground.
Primary Storage Briefing
The primary storage landscape has changed drastically over the last three years. The mass adoption of flash storage, the movement of workloads to the cloud and the emergence of new fabric technologies with NVMe are all trends that are reshaping how we go about selecting primary storage in the data center.
Partner POV | Why Storage Is the Unsung Hero for AI
Storage is the backbone of AI, but as model complexity and data intensity increase, traditional storage systems can't keep pace. Agile, high-performance storage platforms are critical to support AI's unique and evolving demands.
Pure Storage's Fusion for Fleet Management
Simplified management. Effortless automation. Unmatched efficiency.
Automate your enterprise storage by deploying and scaling workloads across any environment. Streamline complex tasks and boost efficiency, enabling your business to focus on growth while reducing risks and overhead.
NVIDIA Blueprint: PDF Ingestion
NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.
World Wide Technology Ai day London
World Wide Technology invites you to Ai day, an immersive experience focused on practical AI applications for today's enterprises.
Join us for a deep dive into AI use cases that are driving efficiencies, innovation and business value across industries and organizations. During this session, we will examine the foundations of AI success, including data quality, security and AI architecture. We will explore WWT's AI Proving Ground — the first multi-OEM ecosystem of AI labs designed to accelerate the assessment and adoption of practical AI solutions. You will also have the opportunity to meet AI experts from WWT as well as our industry-leading AI partners.
Gear up for an engaging day of learning, networking and innovation!
Partner POV | Why a Successful AI Strategy Starts with a Data Strategy
Learn how to future-proof AI investments with efficient, scalable data solutions to ensure impactful and ethical AI outcomes.
Partner POV | The New Rules of Engagement for Data Storage and AI
We're in an AI moment that requires new thinking for data infrastructure. Organizations need a unified data platform that delivers data where it's needed and reduces data center footprint and costs.
Pure Storage FlashArray //X Lab
*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. ***
The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.
Cisco AI PODs: A Groundbreaking Advancement in AI Infrastructure
Cisco AI PODs offer a plug-and-play AI infrastructure solution, integrating compute, storage, networking, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for seamless deployment. Optimized for various AI workloads, these pre-validated bundles accelerate AI adoption, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Centralized management and flexible integration make AI infrastructure straightforward and future-ready. Available now!
Preparing for DORA Compliance with Pure Storage and Commvault?
WWT's take on the new DORA compliance joint solution brief from Pure Storage and Commvault that aims to help customers meet requirements and will aid in your cyber resiliency plan.
World Wide Technology Ai day New York City
World Wide Technology invites you to Ai day, an immersive experience focused on practical AI applications for today's enterprises.
Join us for a deep dive into AI use cases that are driving efficiencies, innovation and business value across industries and organizations. During this session, we will examine the foundations of AI success, including data quality, security and AI architecture. We will explore WWT's AI Proving Ground — the first multi-OEM ecosystem of AI labs designed to accelerate the assessment and adoption of practical AI solutions. You will also have the opportunity to meet AI experts from WWT as well as our industry-leading AI partners.
Gear up for an engaging day of learning, networking and innovation!
Provision Pure FlashBlade Storage for Commvault
Commvault's workflow feature simplifies and automates a wide range of common tasks. The Pure Storage provided workflow for Commvault creates FlashBlade storage Object Accounts, User Accounts and Buckets while applying best practices for securing access and privileges. This short video walks you through adding the workflow along with the execution of the workflow to create a storage bucket on a FlashBlade that Commvault's Media Agents and Storage Accelerators will back up directly via the S3 protocol.