World Wide Technology - TEC17

Two of the most serious security vulnerabilities that companies face today are Spectre and Meltdown.  Listen in as WWT experts Ian Evans and Gene Geddes give their insights on this serious issue.  Ian and Gene describe the differences between Spectre and Meltdown, their two main features from a security perspective and how they impact performance, why these vulnerabilities are at the forefront right now, the solutions that WWT is recommending to companies who face these vulnerabilities and how companies can determine if they are vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown.

For more information on Spectre and Meltdown and how WWT approaches these vulnerabilities click on the links below.

https://www2.wwt.com/meltdown-and-spectre

The new F5 Super-NetOps Training program is a training and enablement program that helps organizations train engineers and architects to move their networking experience to a programmable infrastructure model.  WWT experts Mark Wall and Joel King discuss the key elements of the F5 Super-NetOps Training program, how it helps organizations meet the challenge of the skill set gap in this space and what differentiates the F5 Super-NetOps Training programs from other such training programs.

Next Gen Data Protection Software

Organizations are accumulating more and more data.  With that comes the challenge of having the right hardware and software infrastructure to manage this ever-increasing amount of data.  Listen in as three experts, Steve Gregory and Howard Wendt from WWT, along with Camillo Vitale from Commvault discuss this topic.  They talk about the challenge of keeping up with the demand of storing and protecting increasing volumes of data, what combination of hardware and software best addresses this challenge and what organizations should consider in determining if they need to move to a more scaled-out architecture.

The Year in Security and looking forward to 2018.

2017 was an eventful year in Cybersecurity.  Breaches.  Exposed files.  More election mischief.  Two of WWT’s Security experts, Chris Konrad and Kent Noyes, look back at 2017.   They also look forward to 2018, focusing on key topics including Segmentation, Security Automation and Endpoint Protection.

For a deeper dive into all things Security from WWT, click on the link below.

Security Solutions

More applications.  More devices.  This can only mean more data that organizations must protect in an ever-challenging IT environment.  IDPA provides a solution to meet these challenges.  WWT’s Steve Gregory and John Felts, along with David Turton from Dell EMC discuss why IDPA is so relevant today, what the IDPA suite does for organizations, the challenges that organizations are facing in sharing and protecting their data and how IDPA can be extended to the Cloud.

For a more detailed look at IDPA, click on the link below to get more information from WWT.

Simplifying Data Protection with Dell EMC IDPA

How do organizations deploy services in a virtualized software world?  NFV is a framework for deploying services in this virtualized environment.  There are challenges to be sure, but the benefits are extremely valuable.  Listen in as WWT’s Joe Wojtal and Intel’s Paul Mundinger discuss what NFV actually is and how it has grown.  In addition, Joe and Paul talk about what they’re hearing from customers about challenges in disaggregating between hardware and software, what considerations customers need when assessing whether NFV will benefit their organization and discuss several use cases.

For a deeper look at NFV, click on this link to get more information from WWT.

Essential elements for an effective NFV deployment

Communicating within organizations has evolved from phone calls to emails and now to evolved sophisticated tools that are part of the Team Collaboration suite.  WWT Collaboration practice experts Joe Berger, Tim Cappel and Derrick Monahan discuss some of the new tools that are part of the Team Collaboration toolkit, including SLACK, Cisco Spark and Microsoft Teams.  The group also discusses how Instant Messaging compares to Team Collaboration, the evolution of SLACK, the impact on email, the new Cisco product Spark Assistant and what organizations should consider when adopting team collaboration tools.

For more specific details on Spark Assistant and Team Collaboration in general from WWT, follow these links to get more information.

Spark Assistant

Rising above the Collaboration Flood of Products

In this episode WWT experts Jason Guibert and Paul Richards discuss DevOps and how this infrastructure solution makes the process of developing software and getting user feedback more efficient.  Jason and Paul give an overview of what DevOps is, how to avoid the pitfalls involved when deploying it in your IT infrastructure, the benefits it provides organizations and how they work with customers in implementing the DevOps process into their infrastructure.

To find out more about DevOps and some of the specific tools used in implementing the process check out some of the links below from WWT.

 https://www2.wwt.com/all-blog/devops-a-survival-guide-for-infrastructure-teams/

https://www2.wwt.com/all-blog/kubernetes-101/

https://www2.wwt.com/all-blog/deep-dive-into-linux-and-docker-containers/

Tetration may be hard to say, but it is a valuable analytics platform for the Data Center.  Listen in as WWT experts Jon Duren and Bruce Clounie discuss what Tetration does, the capabilities and benefits it brings it terms of analyzing the Data Center and why it is in demand with WWT customers.

vSAN is the new offering from VMware that helps companies reduce costs, provide flexibility, and increase the speed of deploying architecture in the SDS space.  Listen in as WWT experts Brent Collins and James Weiser talk about the tradeoffs between server SAN and SDS, the benefits that vSAN offers, what organizational needs that vSAN addresses and how it relates to VxRail.