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World Wide Technology Honored with Global Award for Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year for Data Center at Cisco Partner Summit 2019

WWT's new B2B innovation platform puts Cisco partnership in a league of its own, providing unrivaled access to accelerated IT learning

(ST. LOUIS, MO) – November 26, 2019– World Wide Technology (WWT) today announced that it has received a Cisco® Partner Summit Global award, recognized as Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year for Data Center. Cisco announced the winners at a Global Awards reception during its annual partner conference taking place in Las Vegas.

Awarded to channel partners who rise to business challenges, the Cisco Partner Summit Global awards are designed to recognize superior business practices and reward best-in-class methodologies. Areas of consideration include innovative processes, architecture-led successes, strategic business outcome focused programs, seizing new opportunities, and sales approaches.

"It gives me great pleasure to recognize these partners who continue to demonstrate superior performance and drive value for our customers. They demonstrate superior leadership and innovation to help enterprises solve complex problems," said Oliver Tuszik, senior vice president, Global Partner Organization, Cisco. "It's an honor to present the Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year for Data Center award to World Wide Technology in recognition of its outstanding achievement in helping customers respond to their business challenges."

In addition to the global award, Cisco recognized WWT's regional and theater work with the following nine awards:

  • Americas – Enterprise Partner of the Year
  • Americas – Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year for Collaboration
  • Americas – Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year for Service Provider Architectures
  • Americas US East – Enterprise Partner of the Year
  • Americas US Central – Outstanding Solutions Partner of the Year
  • Americas US South – Software Partner of the Year
  • EMEAR UKI – Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year: Service Provider Architectures (won by WWT EMEA UK Ltd.)
  • EMEAR UKI – CGEM Partner of the Year (won by WWT EMEA UK Ltd.)
  • EMEAR UKI – Software Partner of the Year (won by WWT EMEA UK Ltd.)

"WWT strives to deliver unrivaled value for IT practitioners and decision-makers alike through our unique approach to providing technology solutions and the launch of our B2B innovation platform, and we're excited to see what innovations our trusted partners at Cisco will generate as we continue our long history of collaboration," said Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of WWT.

WWT encourages customers, partners and potential customers and partners to experience the new WWT B2B innovation platform, which accelerates and elevates IT learning for busy IT professionals and decision-makers. 

Simply create a My WWT account to gain unparalleled access to workshops, demos, proofs of concept, labs and sandbox environments for comparing and testing which solutions best meet customers' needs and use cases.
 

For a snapshot of the transformational Cisco solutions WWT routinely delivers, and a look at the new accelerated learning platform, check out WWT's Cisco Cloud Calling article and launch WWT's interactive UCM Cloud Lab.

Cisco Partner Summit Global awards reflect the top-performing partners within specific technology markets across all geographical regions. All award recipients are selected by a group of Cisco Global Partner organization and regional executives.

About World Wide Technology

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a technology solution provider with more than $11 billion in annual revenue that provides digital strategy, innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations around the globe. While most companies talk about delivering business and technology outcomes, WWT does it. Based in St. Louis, WWT employs more than 5,000 people and operates over 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in more than 20 facilities throughout the world.

For more information about World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.

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