[March 11, 2015]

World Wide Technology Named Americas Partner of the Year by VCE

World Wide Technology (News - Alert), Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, today announced that it received the VCE 2014 Americas Partner of the Year Award. The award recognizes WWT's success in the VCE Partner Program based on certifications and training attainment, advancements in incremental business, and overall value to customers and the converged infrastructure market space.

"WWT is honored to be recognized by VCE as their 2014 Americas Partner of the Year for our continued achievements in driving the converged infrastructure market and supporting our customers in this space," said Bob Olwig, vice president of Business Strategy and Innovation at WWT. "We are excited to strengthen and continue our longstanding partnership with VCE and jointly deliver solutions and services that help our customers transform their IT infrastructure and accelerate cloud-based initiatives."

"With the converged infrastructure market growing at more than 50%+ year over year, WWT has distinguished itself as a key partner in helping customers transform their business with VCE converged infrastructure," said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Global Channels and Investor Alliances. "Over the last year, VCE has been dedicated to increasing the strength and profitability of our partner program by providing partners with the enablement, training and technology needed to succeed in this rapidly expanding industry. We're pleased to congratulate WWT in their accomplishment and look forward to repeating these successes in 2015."

WWT has been a VCE Partner since 2011 and a leader in helping customers simplify and speed virtualizatin and cloud computing initiatives with VCE converged infrastructure, solutions and services, including Vblock™ Specialized Systems, enhanced VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations software and VCE Cloud Accelerator Services among others.

Recipients of the VCE Partner of the Year Awards were acknowledged in five awards for their outstanding performance and achievements in the VCE Partner Program in 2014. Awards included:

• Global Partner of the Year
• Global System Integrator Partner of the Year
• Americas Partner of the Year
• Europe, Middle East and Africa Partner of the Year
• Asia-Pacific Japan Partner of the Year

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 (News - Alert) (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE: HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware (NYSE: VMW); Citrix Systems, Inc.; NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (News - Alert) (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.

About VCE

VCE delivers a broad range of converged infrastructure solutions for enterprises and service providers globally that dramatically reduce the cost of IT, improve time to market and accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud computing models. Based on best-of-breed compute, network, storage, data protection and virtualization technologies, VCE solutions provide the infrastructure foundation for horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings and application development environments, enabling customers to focus on innovation and business outcomes instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure. Learn more at www.vce.com.

VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective organizations. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VCE and any other organization.

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