Fiscal 26 tested every partner I know. Supply was tight. Prices moved. AI changed every conversation with every customer. And we rebuilt our partner program in the middle of it. Our ecosystem still delivered record-setting results. Today, we recognize the partners who set the pace. This week in Vancouver, I talked about the forest across the harbor. Its trees are connected underground, so the whole forest responds the moment something changes. The partners on this list are a big reason our ecosystem works that way. They saw what customers needed, they moved early, and they brought others with them.

The year by the numbers

22 awards across 17 partners
Winners from every region: the Americas, APJC and EMEA
9 of this year’s winners were also winners last year, many of them in a new category

Partners of the Year

Data#3 Limited, APJC Partner of the Year. Last year Data#3 won two of our excellence awards. This year it takes the top award in the region. World Wide Technology, Americas Partner of the Year. This is WWT’s second year in a row. It also won Networking, Enterprise and One Cisco Partner of the Year. Computacenter, EMEA Partner of the Year. Computacenter also won AI Cloud Partner of the Year. Building AI infrastructure at every scale Customers are moving AI into their own data centers, and they need networks built for it. These partners are building that infrastructure today.

AI Cloud Partner of the Year: Computacenter
Mass Scale Infrastructure Partner of the Year: ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation
Networking Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology
Service Provider Partner of the Year: Comcast Business

Securing customers for the AI era Attacks now move at machine speed. Customers call their partner first. These partners were ready for that call.

Security Partner of the Year: Softcat Plc
Splunk Partner of the Year: CyberCX, part of Accenture

Serving customers of every size Our customers range from the world’s largest enterprises to local businesses. These partners lead in each segment, and they have the reach to serve those customers well.

Enterprise Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology
Commercial Partner of the Year: SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
SMB and Mid-Market Partner of the Year: CDW

Delivering the portfolio and the services behind it Customers need technology that is delivered, run and improved over time. These partners build the services that make that happen across the Cisco portfolio.

Collaboration Partner of the Year: Atea
Services and Software Excellence Partner of the Year: Presidio
Managed Services Partner of the Year: Conscia
One Cisco Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology

Growing the ecosystem itself Some of the most important work in our ecosystem happens outside the transaction. These partners grew it: they reached new markets, trained new talent, built new ideas and helped other partners succeed.

Distributor of the Year: TD SYNNEX
Ecosystem Partner of the Year: Rockwell Automation India Private Limited
Innovation Partner of the Year: Presidio, Global Innovation Challenge winner
Learning Partner of the Year: Trainocate Holdings
Marketing Partner of the Year: TDC Erhverv
Sustainability Partner of the Year: NTT DATA

What this list tells me

Depth wins. Nine of our 17 winners were on this list last year. Several won in a category they had never won before. They keep investing, and their practices keep growing. Early bets pay off. AI infrastructure and AI-era security were small parts of most partner plans a year ago. These winners built practices before customers asked, so they were ready when customers did. Our ecosystem is wider than any single deal. A distributor, an industrial automation leader, a learning company and a marketing team all won this year. Cisco 360 was built to recognize every partner who creates value for customers, and this list shows how many ways there are to do that.

Thank you. You showed the rest of us what this ecosystem can already do. I’m looking forward to what you do in fiscal 27. Congratulate this year’s winners using #CiscoPS26.

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