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Roger King Exits McAfee, Global Channel Office Vacant McAfee's Roger King is leaving the security vendor to pursue new career opportunities. McAfee launching search for a replacement. Managed Services: Time to Grow Up? Supposedly everybody's doing it, but when it comes to reaching the full potential of the managed services business model, the industry is still in its infancy. IT Spending Down, But Strategic Sales Could Be Up While the top spending priority for CIOs this year was cost cutting, recent study shows that the second reason to spend was leveraging IT for strategic business advantage. Venture Capital Market Cool, but Not Dry Study finds that clean technology, cloud computing and SaaS still garner interest from funds looking to invest in the next best thing. 7 Musts to Drive Your Disaster Recovery Strategy Developing an effective strategy to address myriad security threats takes time, personnel and a significant monetary investment. But compared to the potential loss of customers, reputation and revenue, these expenditures are paltry. Here are seven steps Accenture says you can take to help you and your customers develop a holistic strategy. IBM, Ingram Micro Bring Simplified Technology to Small Business IBM will distribute its IBM Smart Cube through Ingram Micro. Designed for small business and midsized business, the IBM Smart Cube combines server hardware together with standard software applications that every business needs, such as e-mail, finance and security. The IBM deal with Ingram Micro is viewed as a move to tap into resellers and channel partners to take the solution to small business customers. Microsoft's Bing Search Steals Share from Google Bing took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and 7.21 percent in April. Watching Old Friends Become Enemies Cisco says its unified computing systems -- or virtualized blade servers -- are not intended to compete with existing server offerings by Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Not only are they a competitive offering, but an example of how vendors are pushing into adjacent markets and turning old friends into enemies. N-able Puts Retail Vertical in Sights With retailers trying to drive efficiencies throughout their organizations because of the poor economy, N-able is looking ahead to a growing business opportunity. Cisco Sets Limits to Cloud Strategy Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no interest in providing infrastructure as a service. Cisco's role in the cloud is providing the tools and enablement strategy to help others build clouds, she says. China Gives Green Dam Yellow Light In a surprising move, Chinese officials postpone the deadline for a required Internet filter amid complaints from PC makers. Pa. Man Charged in SonicWall Warranty Scam A federal grand jury has charged Thomas J. Kline with five counts of mail fraud for a scheme that used fraudulent serial numbers to make warranty claims to obtain new security appliances. Programmer Charged with Rocking 'Rolling Stone' with DDoS Attacks A computer programmer from Pennsylvania could spend up to 10 years in prison if convicted of launching massive distributed denial of service attacks against Rolling Stone magazine and other sites. The case reveals that DDoS remains an effective and serious attack vector. Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5 Update The update includes a major refresh to the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine to make the browser play well with JavaScript, hopefully ended a Firefox's buggy history with JavaScript. Technology Spending Growth to Return in Q4 Forrester Research says that IT spending took a harder hit than expected in the first half of 2009, but IT spending growth will return in Q4 and will continue in 2010. The report aligns with another recent report from Gartner that shows a return of PC sales growth in Q4. Declines are still forecast for the full year of 2009. HP Access Now Free of Charge, Available Through Resellers HP is now offering the discounts, software, services and training for small business -- all part of HP Access -- free of charge. Reseller channel partners can provide HP Access to their customers who purchase an HP product. Red Hat Ups Cloud Computing Game With a new cloud partner program, open-source maven Red Hat tosses a competitive stake in the ground against Microsoft, which is struggling with its cloud services channel message. Could Channel Help Dell Succeed With Handheld? If reports are true, this will mark Dell’s first foray into the handheld market since yanking its Axim line of handhelds off the market in 2005 when it sold only direct. Battling Legacy Trusted Security Advisers Security services are a means for solution providers to delivered valued offerings to clients that reduce complexity and costs. However, as some solution providers are discovering, not everyone agrees with the benefits of security services, particularly fellow solution providers and consultants who stand the most to lose in the services world. Intel Warns Against Delaying PC Refresh Executive says the average cost per year to maintain a three-year-old system is $500, while the maintenance costs for a newer PC is only $125.