World Wide Technology Recipient of Global Award for Americas Enterprise Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2014

World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today that it has received a Cisco® Partner Summit Global award, recognized as Americas Enterprise Partner of the Year. Cisco revealed the winners at a Global Awards reception during its annual partner conference last week in Las Vegas. WWT also received a Geographical Region award as U.S. Partner of the Year and six Theater honors during Cisco Partner Summit.

Awarded to exemplary channel partners, the Cisco Partner Summit Global awards are designed to recognize best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry. Areas of consideration include innovative practices, application successes, unique programs, problem solving and sales approaches.

“Cisco is privileged to work alongside the most talented channel partners in the industry, and we remain committed to our partners’ success,” said Edison Peres, senior vice president, Worldwide Channels, Cisco. “We are honored to name WWT as Americas Partner of the Year to acknowledge their outstanding achievements.”

“Winning these awards is not only a tremendous honor but a testament to WWT’s success and commitment to helping clients leverage Cisco solutions and services to empower strategic innovation and capture new opportunities,” said Bob Olwig, vice president of business strategy and innovation at WWT. “We will continue to deepen our Cisco expertise and showcase the very latest Cisco technology in our Advanced Technology Center while strengthening and leveraging our longstanding Cisco partnership for the benefit of our customers.”

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 Worldwide Partner Organization and regional executives.

About WWT

World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a systems integrator with over $6 billion in revenue that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to the commercial, government and telecom sectors. The company brings to market a powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure and technology to help its customers evaluate, architect and implement technology products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Dell (NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE: HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware (NYSE: VMW); Citrix Systems, Inc.; NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs more than 2,400 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 on World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.

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