With 5000 staff, 600 stores, 7.5 million customers and $4.4 billion in revenue, the merged Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has consolidated its project management office around one core application which it is now integrating with other business systems.

CA Technologies is selling off its information governance software portfolio to Autonomy for an undisclosed sum.

Cloud computing marks a new "inflexion" point in the IT industry, according to CA Technologies.

CA is expanding its partnership with Cisco and unveiling several new management products to improve cloud computing and virtualisation deployments, the company said in a series of announcements Monday at CA World in Las Vegas. The new products are based partly on technology acquired in CA's recent buying spree, in which the company purchased vendors 3Tera, Oblicore and Cassatt.

For the second time in five years, CA has changed its name.

EMC took square aim at the "big four" data center management software players-HP, IBM, CA and BMC- this week when it launched Ionix. The new Ionix business unit and brand name are designed to make more noise about what analysts call an under-appreciated set of broad capabilities in data-center management tools.