World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator
that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions,
announced today that it received NetApp’s distinguished awards for #1
National Partner of the Year for Flash and #1 Central Partner of the
Year for Clustered Data ONTAP during NetApp Insight held at the MGM
Grand in Las Vegas. The awards recognize WWT’s expertise and
demonstrated success delivering NetApp solutions.
“WWT is proud to be recognized for our continued focus, innovation and
success in delivering NetApp Flash and Data ONTAP solutions to our
customers,” said Bob Olwig, vice president of Business Strategy and
Innovation. “We work closely with NetApp and NetApp technology to solve
the business, mission and technical challenges facing our customers that
include some of the largest public and private organizations in the
world.”
NetApp developed the partner awards program to recognize leading
partners for their year-over-year business growth and the ability to
integrate new and emerging technology into their customer ecosystem.
“We'd like to congratulate World Wide Technology on a phenomenal year,
especially for their performance with Flash and Clustered Data ONTAP,"
said Regina Kunkle, vice president of America's Channel at NetApp. "We
look forward to continuing to work together to enable our joint
customers to efficiently store, manage, protect and retain their
business critical data.”
WWT is a NetApp Star Partner and provides customers with hands-on access
to NetApp technology solutions and services related to private and
hybrid cloud storage, software-defined storage, data migration and
converged infrastructure. Since becoming partners in 2009, WWT has grown
to become one of NetApp’s largest and most strategic partners, receiving
recognition across NetApp’s product portfolio, geographic theatres and
market segments. This growth has been facilitated by our Advanced
Technology Center (ATC), where customers are able to explore how NetApp
products fit into integrated architectural solutions.
About NetApp Insight
Insight is NetApp’s annual technology conference devoted to storage and
data management professionals, including system engineers, professional
services consultants, channel partners and customers.
About WWT
World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT) is a systems integrator with more than
$6 billion in annual revenue that provides innovative technology and
supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations. The
company brings to market a powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure
and technology to help its customers explore, 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 2,700 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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