CDW Wins Six Awards at Cisco Partner Summit Including United States and Canada Theater Partner of the Year
VERNON HILLS, Ill. - May 5, 2008 - CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, announced today that it and its subsidiary CDW Berbee are recipients of six Cisco Partner Summit awards including the award for global Theater Partner of the Year in the U.S. and Canada. Cisco unveiled the winners April 9th at its Partner Summit in Honolulu. In addition to the global award, the company received the following theater and regional awards at Cisco Partner Summit:
- U.S. and Canada Theater: Technology Excellence Partner of the Year - Unified Communications
- U.S. and Canada Segment: Direct Integrator Partner of the Year (Globals-Nationals)
- U.S. and Canada Segment: Security Partner of the Year (Globals-Nationals)
- U.S. and Canada Segment: Cisco Capital Partner of the Year (Central)
- U.S. and Canada Segment: Unified Communications Partner of the Year (Central)
"I had the honor and privilege of recognizing CDW as a Cisco Partner Summit global, theater and regional award winner," said Wendy Bahr, vice president of U.S. and Canada channels at Cisco. "The global award for Theater Partner of the Year recognizes CDW’s performance and success as a Cisco channel partner in the United States and Canada in 2007."
"Recognition from Cisco is especially significant as IT customers are demanding more breadth and depth from their technology service and solution providers," said Paul Shain, senior vice president of CDW. "These awards are a testament to the successful partnership and collaboration between CDW and Cisco as well as our continued commitment toward providing differentiated 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 CDW
CDW®, ranked No. 39 on Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Largest Private Companies, is a leading provider of technology solutions for business, government and education. CDW is a principal source of technology products and services including top name brands such as Acer, Adobe, APC, Apple, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Panasonic, Quantum, Samsung, Sony, Symantec, ViewSonic and Xerox.
CDW was founded in 1984 and as of December 31, 2007 employed approximately 6,300 coworkers. In 2007, the company generated sales of $8.1 billion. For more information, visit CDW.com.
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