World Wide Technology Wins Three Awards at the 2009 Cisco Partner Summit

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for U.S. and Canada Theater Partner of the Year. The company also won the U.S. Public Sector DVAR of the Year and Central Region Security Partner of the Year awards. Cisco unveiled the winners June 3 at its annual channel partner conference in Boston.

The objective of the Global Awards is to recognize exemplary channel partners whose behavior Cisco would like other partners to model. Nominations include: innovative practices, applications successes, unique programs, problem solving and sales approaches. All winners are selected by a group of Cisco Worldwide Channels and Theater executives.

“I have the honor and privilege of recognizing World Wide Technology as a Cisco Partner Summit multiple global awards winner,” said Keith Goodwin, Worldwide Channels at Cisco. “These awards recognize WWT's performance and accomplishments as a Cisco channel partner in 2008.”

“We are pleased that Cisco has recognized World Wide Technology for demonstrating technical excellence and delivering customer value,” said Jim Kavanaugh, chief executive officer for WWT. “These honors are a testament to the long-standing partnership WWT enjoys with Cisco, as well as our company-wide commitment to providing the highest-level of service to our customers.”

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global. Cisco Partner Summit U.S. and Canada regional awards reflect a partner's performance in a given geographic region of the United States or Canada.

About WWT

World Wide Technology, Inc. is a systems integrator 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 manage the planning, procurement and deployment of IT products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA); Dell (NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE: HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware (NYSE: VMW); NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs over 1,000 people and operates more than 1.7 million square-feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 20 facilities throughout the world. For more information on World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.

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For World Wide Technology, Inc.
Edward Levens, 919-225-8328; eslevens@propelmg.com