11/12/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/12/2026 07:27
Recognition highlights NTT DATA's leadership in infrastructure solutions and full stack AI capabilities that help clients scale AI from pilots to production.
LONDON and PLANO, Texas - November 12, 2026 - NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, has been named Cisco's Global Sustainability Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year. NTT DATA was also recognized with 25 additional awards for work in the Americas, APJC and EMEA at the Cisco Partner Summit 2026. The awards underscore the strength of NTT DATA and Cisco's global partnership and our ability to turn infrastructure intelligence into measurable business outcomes in the AI era.
The Cisco Partner Summit Global Awards recognize top-performing partners that demonstrate innovation and excellence in helping clients succeed in new ways. NTT DATA received awards across Cisco's strategic portfolios, spanning networking, sustainability, collaboration, services and software, ecosystem, Cisco Capital, marketing and key market segments.
"These recognitions demonstrate our global scale and ability to deliver sustainability-led, infrastructure solutions and services across regions, industries and technology domains," said Dilip Kumar, President and Global Head, Infrastructure Solutions, NTT DATA. "Through NTT DATA's infrastructure outcome services and agentic operations, we are turning infrastructure intelligence into measurable business outcomes."
NTT DATA and Cisco have collaborated globally for 35 years, connecting the enterprise. Building on this relationship, NTT DATA has integrated infrastructure intelligence from Cisco Cloud Control and Cisco IQ into our agentic delivery platform. This enables NTT DATA's human experts and AI coworkers to detect, respond and act with greater speed across complex multivendor infrastructure environments.
NTT DATA expanded its global network of AI Factories, bringing together its full stack AI capabilities with technologies from its partner ecosystem, including Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, to give organizations a secure, scalable sovereign and private AI infrastructure foundation for scaling AI.
Learn more about NTT DATA's Infrastructure Solutions.