WWT opened its first warehouse in 1996 and operates more than 20 facilities with two million square feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space.[14][15][16]
In 1999, Telcobuy.com, LLC, was founded as separate company, owned by WWT, Steward and Kavanaugh.[17]
Telcobuy planned an initial public offering of about $100 million, but as the dot-com bubble burst, the plan was withdrawn in the early 2000s recession. In January 2003, it was merged back into WWT under a holding company.[18]
WWT created its first large-scale integration lab in St. Louis to increase capacity for secure system configuration.[19] Additional integration labs were established in Europe and Asia, with locations in Amsterdam and Singapore opening in 2015,[20] and Mumbai in 2019.[21]
In 2009, WWT opened its Advanced Technology Center to allow engineers, customers and partners to evaluate hardware and software.[22][23] The Advanced Technology Center was made accessible online.[24]
Golf
World Wide Technologies hosts the World Wide Technology championship, a golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The tournament debuted in 2007 and is played on the El Cardonal golf course at the Diamante Cabo San Lucas resort.[25]
Acquisitions
World Wide Technology purchased Baltimore, Maryland-based Performance Technology Group in January 2010 for an undisclosed amount.[26]
In 2015, WWT acquired St. Louis software company Asynchrony.[27]
^"The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. August 8, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2020. In 1990, World Wide Technology became a humble reseller of printers, computers and telephonic equipment….Kavanaugh is one half of World Wide Technology. The other is its chairman, David Steward, 68, the salesman to Kavanaugh's wonk.
^"Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aims To Deliver 5G Simplification". Forbes. April 2, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2020. ODIM is a partner led effort by HPE and Intel, but also includes a number of ecosystem partners such as Red Hat, Tech Mahindra and IT equipment and services provider World Wide Technology.
^"Intel Quietly Becoming A Player On The 'Edge'". Forbes. April 13, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2020. The company says it is doubling its edge deployments year over year. For the network edge, partners include Lenovo, Red Hat, Advantech, Caswell, Inventec, Lanner, Nexcom, World Wide Technology, Ericsson, ZTE, Verizon, Vodafone, Nokia, China Telecom and many more.
^"DoD Is Auditing the Process that Won Tanium Government Contracts". Bloomberg News. May 28, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2020. Tanium, along with partner World Wide Technology, won a $750 million contract to increase security of Army networks late last year. It was the largest contract of its kind to originate from the DIUx office, which was created in 2015 to reach newer technology companies that aren't traditional Pentagon contractors.
^"WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh's 10 Boldest IT Bets And Myths For 2020". CRN. January 17, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2020. Kavanaugh plans to invest millions in net new hires to attack fast growing market segments while also doubling down on the innovation strategies from the likes of Cisco and VMware. to resell hardware and software.
^"The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. August 8, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2020. Kavanaugh swipes his badge and enters the so-called Advanced Technology Center. Here his company, World Wide Technology, has assembled thousands of hardware and software offerings from Microsoft, Cisco, Dell and more than 100 other tech firms in one place. An army of engineers (3,000 strong) are on hand to run demos, conduct bake-offs and make recommendations.
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