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How to Automate Everything Right: WWT's 6 Principles of Automation
Automation plays a critical role in our daily work, touching solutions that span technologies, partners and industries. In our many years of working with clients, we've identified six principles that can help organizations automate everything right.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infrastructure Source of Truth:Netbox
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.
Building Cyber Resiliency in Today's Chaotic Healthcare Landscape with Palo Alto Networks | Partner Spotlight
Healthcare organizations face a perfect storm of cybersecurity challenges, from sophisticated ransomware attacks to a fluid regulatory environment to the complexities of digital transformation.
Watch Palo Alto Networks' Healthcare Lead Troy Ament talk with WWT's Dr. Eric Quinones and Jake Bushman about proven strategies to fortify your cybersecurity defenses, streamline your infrastructure and empower your teams to outpace the evolving threat landscape.
Automation Priorities for 2025
A step-by-step guide to achieving automation success
The Convergence Connection: Empowering Product Excellence through IT-OT Alignment | Experts
Visibility across IT/OT environments, including data visibility and the ability to improve digital experiences, remains a top challenge for manufacturers.
Join WWT Senior Manufacturing Advisor Tim Householder as he talks about how aligning IT design to OT needs can help bridge the gap between IT and OT to help produce higher quality products, make more data driven decisions and drive a better end user experience. Tim also details industry trends in the near- and long-term, discusses ways leaders can maximize security and how to advance automation initiatives.
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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infrastructure Source of Truth:Netbox
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.
Before Automation: A Reality Check on IT Fundamentals
Many organizations aspire to enabling infrastructure automation, GitOps and self-healing systems but struggle with IT fundamentals like network stability, asset management, observability and identity access. Without a strong foundation, automation efforts will struggle. We'll explore the key fundamentals that organizations must have before embarking on their automation journey as well as some common pitfalls usually encountered.
Years of Workshops: Industry Trends in Infrastructure Automation
An examination of data from the Infrastructure Automation Envisioning Workshop that WWT has conducted since 2022. We examine current challenges and trends we see.
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.
Introduction to Data Formats
Data encoding formats are an essential skill of an automation engineer. This lab will take a hands-on approach to teaching you about three common formats: YAML, JSON and XML.
GraphQL Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals
GraphQL is a query language for the API that is flexible and efficient.
Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
REST Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals
Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
Development Environments - Getting Started
Development Environments
Development environments are the first step on your automation journey.
This track will help define what a development environment is and provide some hands-on exposure to one solution.
Container Basics for Automation Engineers
This lab is intended to teach the consumer functional skills related to utilizing containers in the realm of automation.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 Sandbox
In this lab environment, you will walk through deploying your own OpenShift 4.11 cluster on vSphere. The deployment method walked through uses the 'Installer-Provisioned Infrastructure' method. Once deployed, use some of our linked use cases or carve your path to experience what OpenShift offers.
Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure Lab
The Liqid Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Lab showcases how to create impossible hardware configurations that are unfeasible in the physical world. Compose bare metal servers with any number of configurations via software. The lab consists of Dell PowerEdge compute, Liqid PCIe4 Fabric, Liqid Matrix Software, Intel NVMe and NVIDIA GPUs.
AlgoSec Foundations Lab
WWT's AlgoSec Foundations Lab introduces three prominent features offered by AlgoSec: the Firewall Analyzer, AppViz, and Fireflow. The lab aims to lead users through the utilization and functionality of these features by providing detailed steps accompanied by essential explanations. Moreover, the lab furnishes users with an environment to explore and experiment with various other capabilities of AlgoSec that may not be covered in the lab guide.
AlgoSec encompasses a suite of software designed to aid organizations in optimizing their network. Their mission revolves around enhancing network speed while concurrently elevating its security. AlgoSec presents a solution for mapping network flows, effecting secure and automated changes, and conducting compliance checks via automated reports.
The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) stands as a comprehensive tool for device analysis. It furnishes users with a unified and exhaustive perspective on all applications, services, and flows within their network.
Algosec's AppViz adopts an application-centric security approach, providing transparent visibility into network applications while upholding the network security policy of the user.
Lastly, AlgoSec's Fireflow streamlines the security policy change process. It translates each request into a practicable policy alteration and ensures that these modifications are duly approved, necessary, and executed as intended.
Arista Ansible Automation Lab
This lab is designed to expose network engineers to Arista-oriented automation techniques. The focus is mid-level programmability leveraging CloudVision Portal, Ansible, Jinja2,and Python.
Transforming Business with Automation for IT Leaders
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, IT leaders must navigate complex challenges while driving efficiency and innovation through automation. This learning path equips IT decision-makers with the essential skills to assess their current automation landscape, prioritize initiatives, and develop a structured, actionable execution plan. By the end of this learning path, IT leaders will have a well-defined strategy and execution plan to streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance IT agility through automation.
Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth - NetBox
This lab is part of the Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth Learning Path and is designed to teach the user how to interface with NetBox as a source of truth for variable data and inventory.
Modernizing the Federal Civilian Data Center
As federal civilian agencies grapple with the rapid pace of technological change, modernizing their data center infrastructure has become a critical priority. However, agencies face unique challenges, from budget constraints and staffing shortages to legacy vendor lock-in and the need to balance on-premises and cloud-based resources. In this episode of WWT Experts, Federal Civilian Area Vice President Kevin Pearson and Vice President of Cloud, Infrastructure and AI Solutions Neil Anderson discuss data center modernization strategies that federal civilian agencies can use to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and unlock new capabilities to better serve citizens.
Simplifying IT Infrastructure to Drive Automation Efficiencies
Tasked with doing more with less, IT leaders globally are looking to scale automation projects to drive efficiency and productivity. Even more important than moving automation forward is moving the right automation forward. But as many are learning, this is easier said than done.
Join WWT's Jim Stuckey, who leads our infrastructure automation practice, as he dives into why providing automated infrastructure is so critical to delivering good end-user experiences. Jim also talks about common use cases for automated infrastructure, outcomes gained from those use cases and considerations for building a culture that's ready to tackle it all. And who could forget — how is automation changing in the age of generative AI?
Automation Priorities for 2025
A step-by-step guide to achieving automation success
Revolutionizing Industries: The Future of Edge Computing & AI
Edge computing and AI are transforming various industries by addressing the limitations of traditional infrastructures and cloud services. Edge computing and AI together enable organizations to enhance their end-user experiences and operational performance by supporting high-speed, low-latency needs and real-time data processing. Join WWT's strategy consultant Jennifer Adefala and distinguished solutions architect Curt Stalhood as they explore the evolving landscape of edge computing and its growing synergies with AI and virtualization strategies.
F5 Terraform Automation Lab
Welcome to WWT's F5 Terraform Automation Lab.
The intended goal of this lab is to introduce and enable F5 administrators to utilize Terraform to automate, simplify and streamline the deployment of F5 services.