World Wide Technology Awarded the Palo Alto Networks 2025 North America Cortex Partner of the Year
ST. LOUIS, March 12, 2026 — World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider, today announced it has received the Palo Alto Networks 2025 North America Cortex Partner of the Year.
These annual awards recognize an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that have demonstrated exceptional performance and commitment to customer security over the past fiscal year. To ensure a rigorous and objective selection process, this year's recipients were determined through a data-driven methodology that evaluated partners across a comprehensive set of key performance indicators, including:
- Performance: Bookings volume & growth, new customer growth, partner-initiated business, and deal volume & growth
- Strategic Engagement: Demonstrated acquisition of net-new logos and success in partner-initiated business and pipeline development
The Palo Alto Networks 2025 North America Cortex Partner of the Year award recognizes WWT's excellence in deploying the Cortex platform to help customers combat modern cyber threats. Through its partnership with Palo Alto Networks, WWT delivers end-to-end security solutions focused on accelerating Cortex adoption to improve threat detection, response and security operations. WWT's sustained investment in the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem has earned multiple partner honors over the years, reflecting consistent performance, strategic engagement and commitment to joint customer success.
"This recognition reflects our team's deep expertise in the Cortex platform and our shared commitment with Palo Alto Networks to helping customers stay ahead of modern cyber threats," said Ashish Upadhyay, AVP Global Partner Alliances, WWT. "We're proud to partner with Palo Alto Networks to deliver outcome driven security solutions that strengthen detection, response and security operations. Together, we're enabling organizations to modernize security operations and respond faster to an increasingly complex threat landscape."
"In cybersecurity, a trusted partner ecosystem is the engine that drives security transformations throughout the entire customer journey," said Simone Gammeri, Chief Partnerships Officer at Palo Alto Networks. "Our partners are more than just a route to market; they are essential to helping customers modernize their infrastructure and adopt the AI-powered, platform-based security needed for today's scale. We're proud to recognize WWT as Palo Alto Networks' 2025 North America Cortex Partner of the Year, celebrating their role in evolving our customers' security infrastructure and solving complex security challenges together."
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About World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider helping organizations make a new world happen by turning ambition into real-world outcomes. Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class technology partnerships to help public- and private-sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities. With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations worldwide, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT serves clients in more than 200 countries across six continents, and through Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, it supports U.S. commercial and SMB markets and all of Canada.
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