World Wide Technology - TEC17

The Mobile World Congress took place In Barcelona, Spain this past February.  One of the big takeaways from the Congress was the migration to a Virtual Central Office (VCO) solution for Service Providers (SP), based on Intel architecture.  To break all this down, WWT’s Joe Wojtal and Bob Elfanbaum, along with Intel’s Paul Mundinger discuss some of the key issues around the new VCO deployment.  Some of the topics that are discussed include how SPs will monetize their major investment in 5G, how WWT delivers value to SPs in the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) space and supports these integration efforts, the technology needs for deploying on-premise for SPs and how the partnership between WWT and Intel will deploy this technology on the customer premises.

WWT's Top Takeaways from the Mobile World Congress

Service Providers must consider the entire value chain

At its core, cloud data management is about what it means for an organization to have control and ownership of their data.  When they do, they can move data to areas of the business where it holds the greatest value to generate revenue more quickly.  To realize this, organizations must understand the structure and classification of data and how to manage it on-premise, off-premise and in multiple public clouds.  This requires navigating cloud native services and storage options.  In this episode of TEC17, WWT cloud data management experts, Steve Gregory and Sebastien Berube, dig into the benefits of a cloud data management capability and what organizations should be focusing on to achieve business value.

WWT's MultiCloud Practice

Rubrik Accelerator for Microsoft Azure

At Enterprise Connect 2019 on March 19, Cisco has announced Cognitive Collaboration,  which is a host of collaboration products with built-in Artificial Intelligence.  The products span meetings, contact center, and UC and fit under the umbrella of cognitive collaboration.  To discuss what Cognitive Collaboration is, Joe Berger and Brandon Echele from WWT’s Collaboration practice talk about the solutions that Cognitive Collaboration brings, how it has evolved from Unified Communications, where this new product can lead to and the role Artificial Intelligence plays in these new Collaboration offerings.

Cognitive Collaboration:  Cisco's X Factor

Machine Learning and Deep Learning are technology tools that organizations have been using to incorporate Artificial Intelligence technology in their IT practices.  These tools provide valuable solutions but also require best practice applications to deploy within these organizations.  In this audio version of World Wide Technology’s latest episode of their Between the Racks video series, WWT’s Tim Brooks and Matt DuBell, along with Tony Paikeday from NVIDIA, discuss how they work with customers to provide solutions using these technology tools.  They discuss how customers use NVIDIA’s DGX technology to deploy these technologies to provide solutions and several use cases where this technology has provided valuable benefits to organizations.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Research and Development

Deep Learning with NVIDIA DGX-1

Digital Transformation.  Digital Disruption.  These are challenges that every organization is facing today and will be in the future.  What solutions and tools can organizations use to meet these challenges?   WWT’s Chris Infanti and Charley Summers discuss this important topic in today’s episode.  They discuss how these Digital Solutions help to meet the challenges that are created by this new Digital Transformation.  They also highlight two specific use cases where digital solutions have been used, and finally, how those applications can be utilized in any industry.

Auto Racing and Digital Analytics

AI and Racing

Driving Success through Data Analytics

Data Analytics 101

Service providers have been on the leading edge in bandwidth and back office systems.  How are they adjusting to the proliferation of enterprises operating large and complex networks as well?  WWT experts Ron Whitt, Justin van Schaik, Roudy Devis and Tom Pagan discuss this issue by focusing on the example of Global Financial companies.  They define Service Orchestration and how it grew in the Service Provider space, how the solution expanded in Global Financial services and the solution tools that WWT offers to customers in this space.

WWT Service Orchestration Blog Post

https://www.wwt.com/all-blog/orchestration-strategy-next-level/

We’ve heard a lot about Branch of the Future and the customized digital services it provides to customers in many settings.  But one people may not have thought of is how Branch of the Future can help auto dealers.  Listen to WWT’s Dan Rojas and Joe Hainline talk about what Branch of the Future is and how it works in the Auto Dealer category.  Dan and Joe discuss why auto dealers is such a strong application for Branch of the Future, how ready auto dealers are for this transformation, what has been learned in other verticals that can apply to auto dealers and how auto dealers can evaluate whether they should undergo this transformation.

Branch of the Future – A managed service

https://www.wwt.com/all-blog/branch-of-the-future-managed-service/

WWT’S Branch of the Future practice

https://www.wwt.com/branch-of-the-future/

Our experience in the workplace has evolved greatly in the past few years.  How have these changes made our job easier and enhanced workforce productivity?  WWT’s Joe Berger and Brandon Echele discuss how these changes have enhanced workforce productivity and even lowered real estate costs.  They talk specifically about Huddle Rooms, including what are the characteristics of Huddle Rooms and how they make the workforce more productive.

Huddle Spaces Blog Post

New Cisco product release

https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1953453

WWT Collaboration practice

https://www.wwt.com/solution/collaboration/

As cybersecurity challenges continue to increase for enterprise organizations, WWT works with partners to address these challenges.  Syncurity is one of those valuable partners.  In this episode, Matt Berry of WWT returns to the podcast, along with Tom Young from Syncurity.  Matt gives an update on the Innovation pod at WWT on Endpoint Security.   Then Matt and Tom discuss solutions and outcomes that Syncurity provides, the challenges customers face that WWT and Syncurity solutions can address, how these solutions differ from other alternatives and use case examples for these solutions.

Integrated Endpoint Security Architecture (IESA):

https://www.wwt.com/endpoint-protection/endpoint-security-architecture/

IESA Commercial Overview:

https://www.wwt.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WWT_IESA_Commercial.pdf

Most of us in technology know about SD-WAN and SD-Data Center.  Now there is a new solution for Software Defined, SD in the Branch.  WWT Mobility experts Bill Thompson and Dan Huber will tell you what SD-Branch is and how it has evolved from SD-WAN and SD-Data Center. 

Bill and Dan also talk about what’s the easiest way to integrate all of our devices together and how to make those complex situations easier to manage, the issues in the network that an SD-Branch deployment can address and the solutions that WWT offer in this new Software-Defined Technology.

Mobility Analytics

https://www.wwt.com/all-blog/strategies-for-wireless-location-and-analytics/

Networking

https://www.wwt.com/solution/networking/

Software Defined Networking (SDN) 

https://www.wwt.com/sdn/