Integration and Services: Breaking News

Avaya has slashed its Australian and New Zealand distribution line-up from five to three following a review of its Avaya and Nortel channel partnerships.

India's Tata Communications is set to expand in Africa with plans to invest in more companies following the arrival of new submarine cable systems in the region.

One unhappy Datacom customer is determined to file a lawsuit against the company for gross negligence, claiming the provider’s Melbourne datacentre was flooded and experienced a major service outage.

Service provider, Datacom, has conceded its Melbourne datacentre was damaged by storms over the weekend.

Over a year after Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services reported a major financial fraud at the company, research firm Forrester still cautions customers doing business with it.

The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.

One thousand members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will go on a 48-hour strike at HP on Monday after the company refused to extend its job security guarantee beyond October.

Hewlett-Packard has been forced to reduce the amount of profit it reported last quarter to cover additional costs awarded against its EDS division in a lawsuit brought by British Sky Broadcasting in the U.K.

ASX-listed service provider, Hyro Limited (ASX:HYO), has appointed Jeff Pope as a director.

ASX-listed services provider, Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB), has appointed Carolyn Sutton as its new chief financial officer.