Dimension Data / Datacraft Wins 30 Awards At 2010 Cisco Partner Summit

Dimension Data announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for European and Emerging Markets Enterprise Partner of the Year. Its Asian subsidiary, Datacraft Asia, was crowned Enterprise Partner of the Year for Asia Pacific. Cisco unveiled the winners on 28 April at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 23, 2010 - The objective of Cisco's Partner Summit global awards is to recognise exemplary channel partners whose business best practices Cisco would like other partners to model. Categories include: innovative practices, applications successes, unique programs, problem solving and sales approaches. All winners are selected by a group of Cisco Worldwide Channels and regional theatre executives.

"It is an honour and privilege to name Dimension Data as a Cisco Partner Summit global award winner," said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president, Worldwide Channels at Cisco. "The Global Enterprise Partner of the Year award recognises Dimension Data's performance and achievements as an outstanding global Cisco channel partner in 2009."

Brett Dawson, CEO, Dimension Data said, "Our commitment on delivering an outstanding client experience for our clients remains a key priority for Dimension Data. This means being able to ensure strong implementation and support on Cisco technologies."

In addition to the Global Enterprise Partner of the Year award, Dimension Data received 27 theatre, country and regional awards. Dimension Data Europe received nine awards including theatre Borderless Network Partner of the Year in the United Kingdom; Dimension Data U.S. and Canada won five awards; Dimension Data and Datacraft in Asia-Pacific won three awards; and Emerging Markets received 10 awards across LATAM, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Emerging East, Emerging Central (North Africa & Levant), and the Czech Republic.

Bill Padfield, CEO of Datacraft Asia, said, "The Enterprise Partner of the Year award recognises our ability to service MNCs and global companies in Asia Pacific, as well as our other markets across the globe. This segment is the single largest adopter of Cisco's advanced technologies and this award serves to recognise Datacraft's investment, capabilities and coverage in this area. We are also a proud winner of Services Partner of the Year award for India while Training Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Datacraft, won the Excellence in Collaboration award for Asia Pacific."

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theatre and global. Cisco Partner Summit global awards reflect a partner's commendable performance within a specific technology market across several geographic regions.

About Datacraft
Datacraft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a US$4 billion leading global IT solutions and services provider. Datacraft operates in over 50 offices across 13 Asia Pacific countries. We help clients plan, build, support, manage, improve and innovate their IT infrastructures. Datacraft combines an expertise in networking, security, data centre, storage, Microsoft solutions and converged communications & contact centre technologies, with advanced skills in consulting, integration, training and managed services to craft IT solutions for businesses. For more information, please visit www.datacraft-asia.com .

For further information, please contact:
Esther Quah (Datacraft Asia) Tel: (65) 6322 6688
(Email: esther.quah ( @ ) datacraft-asia dot com)
Tng Szu Lin (Datacraft Asia) Tel: (65) 6322 6605
(Email: szu-lin.tng ( @ ) datacraft-asia dot com)

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