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• UPDATED: CA Technologies focuses on industry verticals with three new senior hires

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 May, 2012 15:20

  IT management vendor, CA Technologies, has appointed three senior sales directors in a move to support a wider range of industry verticals in A/NZ.

• Fernando Gonzalez

  By Ken Gagne | 05 December, 2011 22:06

  Fernando GonzalezFavorite pastime: Watching my grandchildren grow. Something interesting that most people don't know about you: My love of the arts, primarily painting. I can draw very well, [but] I can't put life to what I draw. In high school, I was... a bookworm. One of my nicknames in school was "Professor." Last book you read:John Adams by David McCullough. Role model: Victor E. Villaseor, who wrote Rain of Gold . He writes a book every 10 years, and the fact that you can dedicate yourself to this one thing for 10 years -- that's dedication.

• Three bullet points: Apotheker's battle plan for Apple, IBM, the world

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 17 March, 2011 07:52

  The world of new Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker is lot more complicated than the one imagined by his predecessors.

• Datacom grabs slice of ATO deal with Lockheed Martin

  By Julia Talevski | 20 October, 2010 17:51

  IT integrator and service provider, Datacom, has been selected by Lockheed Martin to supply service desk capabilities and support for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

• ATO's $380m desktop deal revealed

  By Renai LeMay | 06 October, 2010 09:45

  The Australian Taxation Office has revealed that its five-year desktop services contract with defence giant and IT contractor, Lockheed Martin, has a total price tag of $380 million — 25 per cent more than initially estimated.

• Telstra’s next revolution: Project New

  By Renai LeMay | 29 September, 2010 15:02

  Telstra has outlined plans to drive an extensive internal program of reforms that its chief executive, David Thodey, believes will transform the company’s customer service experience and simplify its complex operations.

• IT slowly hiring back after layoffs

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 15 September, 2010 20:12

  WASHINGTON -- The IT industry shed employees last year at a much faster pace than they are now hiring them, but at least the industry is hiring.

• Sexual harrassment scandal: where does HP go from here?

  By Tony Bradley | 09 August, 2010 05:27

  Departing HP CEO Mark Hurd managed to bring HP from the brink of collapse and restore respect for the HP brand in only five years. Forced to resign as a result of a sexual harassment scandal, Hurd takes with him his vision for the future of HP, leaving his successor to figure out how to put the pieces of the puzzle together and continue to build on the momentum Hurd has built.

• CA Technologies reshuffle staff in strategy shake-up

  By David Ramli | 14 July, 2010 14:31

  Security vendor, CA Technologies, has shaken up its Australian operations and appointed five new divisional heads. Each will be responsible for their business units in Australia.

• Artis lands multi-million dollar cloud deal

  By David Ramli | 04 May, 2010 11:39

  IT service provider, Artis Group, has completed a multi-million dollar deal for the Weather Channel to provide the interactive map at the heart of its relaunched website.

• IT Outsourcing: 9 Signs It's Time to Fire Your Vendor

  By Stephanie Overby | 25 March, 2010 08:07

  Breaking up is hard to do. And when it comes to IT outsourcing, it can be expensive and risky, too. But issues with an outsourcer--such as deteriorating service levels, lack of investment, excessive turnover, or even fraud--are potentially even more costly than the actual break-up.

• HP faces strike over redundancy threat to former EDS workers

  By Anh Nguyen | 06 March, 2010 01:39

  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.

• HP cuts reported profit on additional BSkyB legal costs

  By James Niccolai | 06 March, 2010 09:45

  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.

• HP abandons EDS brand

  By Denise Dubie | 24 September, 2009 05:33

  HP Wednesday announced it would leave the EDS brand behind and rename its IT services provider business HP Enterprise Services.

• Dell agrees to buy Perot Systems for $3.9B

  By Peter Sayer | 22 September, 2009 06:16

  Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around US$3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday.