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A collection of 26 posts

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Behind the Research: Why are you in the Cloud?

We were 20 minutes into the recording when Jeff's video started breaking up. But we couldn't stop—we were finally getting somewhere. After three attempts, we'd cracked what Priority Four was really about: not infrastructure planning, but one question most organizations can't answer.

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Behind the Research: The Cloud Governance Hamster Wheel

Companies think they're more mature than they are. They have governance, committees, FinOps. Dig one level deeper: no tagging strategy, no chargeback, no way to trace spend. The problem isn't tools or data—it's organizational structure with actual authority.

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Behind the Research: Strategic Technology Partnerships

Your "15% discount" might be burning millions. Servers sit in boxes for 90 days. Depreciation ticks. Maintenance runs. Warranty expires. That discount? Gone before the first server boots. This is what happens when procurement is transactional, not strategic.

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Behind the Research: Software Spend Management

80% of your budget goes to 20% of your vendors—the ones you manage obsessively. Then there's the long tail: hundreds of smaller subscriptions nobody's tracking. Sound familiar? Your procurement team isn't failing. They're drowning in the obvious while the less obvious compounds.

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Stop Spending Millions on Museum Pieces: Why Legacy Modernization Can't Wait

Legacy systems cost millions annually just to maintain the status quo. Battle-tested modernization tools now exist to transform these applications safely and automatically, often reducing costs by 70-90% while unlocking decades of trapped innovation.

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The Cloud Wild West (And How to Tame It)

Cloud bills exploding? Teams working in silos? The problem isn't the technology—it's your operating model. Learn how to shift from infrastructure owner to service broker, optimize for value over cost-cutting, and build the foundation for true cloud control.

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Why Your Automation Fails: The Missing Foundation

Robb Boyd and Nick Thompson dig into why your automation efforts keep stalling—spoiler alert: it's not the technology, it's the foundation. Nick breaks down the hard truth that you can't automate what you don't know exists.

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Why Your Million-Dollar AI Infrastructure Sits Idle 40% of the Time

Something my guest said stopped me cold: "Without automation, you are guaranteeing yourself to consume more GPU resources than you thought you were gonna consume." We've been thinking about AI infrastructure completely backwards.

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The 25x Problem That's Bankrupting Your IT Budget (And the Three-Step Fix)

Something Mark Wall said stopped me in my tracks: "Most organizations are spending twenty-five times more effort maintaining their infrastructure than deploying it." That's when I realized we've been obsessing over the wrong part of the IT lifecycle.

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Strategic AI Implementation: The Key to Empowering Every Employee

Transform your AI approach from scattered experiments to strategic success. WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis reveal key insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace research on scaling AI implementation across your enterprise.

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The AI Power Crisis

AI is revolutionizing tech, but your data center might not be ready. Traditional facilities weren't built for AI's massive power and cooling needs. Don't let infrastructure bottleneck your AI dreams. Learn how to adapt your data center for the AI age before it's too late.

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Master Your CX: The Full Stack Advantage

Customer experience has evolved into a company-wide mission to create unforgettable brand moments, requiring a comprehensive approach to managing your entire digital ecosystem.

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Kubernetes and AI with Steve Younger

Discover how Kubernetes is revolutionizing AI deployment, making it scalable and cost-effective for businesses of all sizes.

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Balancing AI's Promise and Peril: Insights from Kent Noyes

AI is revolutionizing our world, but it's also creating new security headaches. Kent Noyes, WWT's AI security guru, shed light on some eye-opening challenges.

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AI guide for CEO's in two parts

Join us to learn more about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for businesses, emphasizing the necessity for strategic adoption, executive engagement, and organizational transformation.

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Reassess Virtualization Strategy

Virtualization and VMware are crucial in modern IT, with over 90% presence in data centers. Broadcom's acquisition raises concerns about licensing and support, necessitating careful consideration and reassessment of virtualization strategies.

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The 2024 Networking Shift: AI-Driven Facility Integration

In 2023, our networking efforts centered on agility, security, and scalability, proving these are not mere buzzwords but essential elements that remain relevant in 2024. However, AI, once the ultimate buzzword, took center stage last year, prompting us to explore our response to its dominance.

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First Impressions: Mastering the Art of the Cold Open

Getting started with new content is tough for me; I like to grasp the big idea first. However, the beginning needs to grab attention, so I focus on perfecting the opening with the 'Cold Open' technique. It's not just for TV; corporate videos can benefit too.

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Data Centers are not Dead.

"Data Centers are not dead. They are evolving." WWT's 2024 report unveils the transformative impact of AI on data centers, from modernization to cybersecurity. Join us as we explore this evolution, powered by WWT's Advanced Technology Center.

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WWT's Journey into Generative AI: Digital Assistants

AI chatbots are on the rise as businesses aim to meet customer needs and boost loyalty with personalized experiences. However, creating AI assistants is tough due to the wide variety of tools and methods available.

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Modularity and AIOps

AIOps, often like a puzzle with mismatched pieces, needs a strategic, modular approach. WWT experts demonstrate how this can streamline IT operations.

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Exploring Digital Twins: Key Insights from WWT Research Insights

In the latest episode of Worldwide Technology Research Insights, host Robb Boyd takes us on an enlightening journey into the world of digital twins. Joined by expert Jason Craig, they unravel the complexities and evolving applications of this cutting-edge technology. From their roots in the Apollo

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WAN Up

We have now released three out of the four possible deep-dive shows centered on the WWT Research report: Network Priorities for 2023. WAN Up: How Optimizing Your WAN Can Deliver a Better Employee Experience, just aired on the WWT Platform live today so the replay is available right now. This

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WWT Research: Cloud Marketplace Maturity

Cloud marketplaces are designed to help optimize cloud costs. But for all the potential they offer, we've found our client base can struggle to extract the full value of cloud marketplaces.

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Data Protection Strategies

Between prioritizing how to secure data and keeping up with the increased data demand, organizations need solutions that will help them keep up in an age of shifting threat landscapes and technology disruption.