Channel partners honored for exceptional performance, strategic collaboration, and leadership in critical digital infrastructure delivery
COLUMBUS, Ohio [October 9, 2026]— Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today revealed its 2025 North America Partner Award recipients, honoring 11 channel partner organizations that demonstrated exceptional performance, strategic collaboration and a shared commitment to solving the infrastructure challenges shaping today's digital economy. Winners were selected based on 2025 results, growth trajectory and the real-world impact they delivered for customers.
“Vertiv’s partners are committed to delivering reliable infrastructure to their customers,” said Alex Johnson, Vice President, North America Channel Sales at Vertiv. “As demand for high-density, AI-ready environments grows, our partners are applying their technical expertise to help customers deploy scalable, future-ready infrastructure with greater speed and confidence. Our 2025 Partner Awards celebrate these outstanding achievements across our partner ecosystem and the impact our partners are making for customers across North America.”
2025 North America Partner Award winners:
- Partner of the Year – World Wide Technology (WWT) earned the top honor through exceptional collaboration with Vertiv, strong year-over-year growth and continued investment in joint AI strategy. Successful AI factory deployments and the integration of Vertiv™ technologies within WWT's Advanced Technology Center have accelerated AI solution innovation, deepened customer engagement and unlocked new avenues for growth.
- IT Distribution Partner of the Year – TD SYNNEX delivered strong execution and collaboration, leveraging its scale and channel reach to broaden access to Vertiv™ solutions. Rapid enablement capabilities and a focus on business growth helped accelerate opportunities from edge environments to large-scale infrastructure while advancing shared business priorities.
- Specialty Distributor of the Year – Wesco emerged as a standout growth partner, delivering strong results across enterprise and hyperscale opportunities. Close leadership alignment, significant customer wins and increased field engagement strengthened the partnership and positioned Wesco for continued momentum with Vertiv.
- E-Commerce Partner of the Year – B&H Photo delivered exceptional year-over-year growth while extending Vertiv's reach through its e-commerce platform. Strong digital execution, strategic alignment and expanding project-based business have made B&H one of Vertiv's fastest-growing and most dynamic online partners.
- AI Excellence Award – Cambridge Computer distinguished itself through its focus on AI and its ability to architect, position, and deploy Vertiv solutions in demanding high-performance environments. Technical expertise and a customer-focused approach continue to translate emerging AI requirements into meaningful outcomes.
- Solution Integration Partner of the Year – Computacenter demonstrated a strong ability to integrate technologies and services into end-to-end AI infrastructure solutions for neocloud and enterprise customers. Deep strategic alignment, continued investment in its partnership with Vertiv, and a joint focus on delivering the right technology and services position Computacenter to help customers solve their most complex AI infrastructure challenges.
- Alliance Partner of the Year – NVIDIA was instrumental in advancing AI infrastructure through reference architectures, technology alignment, and strategic go-to-market collaboration. This technology collaboration continues to help customers accelerate AI deployments at scale while setting a strong benchmark for alliance excellence.
- Education Partner of the Year – STEP CG demonstrated strong leadership in bringing Vertiv edge solutions to K–12 and higher education institutions. A clear understanding of the unique needs of education customers and the ability to deliver tailored infrastructure solutions have expanded Vertiv's presence and impact across the academic market.
- Enterprise Partner of the Year – Dell Technologies continues to expand Vertiv's reach across the enterprise, helping customers deploy and scale next-generation infrastructure for AI and other critical workloads. Joint collaboration around AI opportunities highlight the strength of combined capabilities in meeting evolving enterprise infrastructure needs.
- Public Sector Partner of the Year – Iron Bow delivered strong results across federal AI and OCONUS opportunities while expanding adoption of Vertiv solutions in data center and edge environments. Deep public sector expertise and proven execution help customers address increasing performance requirements while maintaining resilient, reliable infrastructure.
- Canadian Partner of the Year – Javco, a longstanding Vertiv partner, continues to excel with deep technical expertise, strong customer relationships, and unwavering execution in delivering mission-critical infrastructure. Their customer-first approach and ability to deliver high-impact solutions across edge, colocation, and AI data center environments continue to expand Vertiv's reach and raise the bar for partnership in the Canadian market.
Through the Vertiv Partner Program, value-added resellers, distributors and solution providers gain access to enablement resources, incentives and joint go-to-market strategies designed to help them succeed. The program equips partners to bring Vertiv's full portfolio to market – uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, thermal management and cooling solutions, power distribution units (PDUs), integrated racks and enclosures, IT management software, and lifecycle services – addressing the critical infrastructure demands of data centers, edge environments and AI factories.
To learn more about the Vertiv Partner Program, visit partners.vertiv.com.
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
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