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Pulling the strings?

24 March 2015 • 7 min read

With one industry figure opining that Cisco partners are the networking giant's ‘puppets', Jack Gilbert asks whether the biggest vendors still control the channel

In any industry, the biggest companies will always hold a certain level of influence over the market. But in the IT channel, with its layers of partners all spun together in a web, the influence th...

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