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The first task on new EDS Australia and New Zealand vice president David Caspari's plate should be to come clean on exactly what the local consequences of HP's acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant will be.
Hewlett-Packard has appointed one of its own executives to lead the Australia and New Zealand division of its new subsidiary, IT outsourcing giant EDS, shunting aside the group's acting managing director Neil Emerson in the process.
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.
NEC announced today it had entered the netbook market, with the release of its 8.9-inch Versa N1100 based on the Intel Atom processor.
Electronic Data Systems today confirmed it would cut 75 Australian staff as part of the integration process associated with Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of the global IT outsourcer.
The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future.
Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.
Hewlett-Packard has notified the nation's financial regulator that EDS Australia managing director Neil Emerson and several of his colleagues are no longer on paper technically leading the IT outsourcer's local operations.
HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.
Hewlett-Packard will cut 3,378 former EDS jobs in its UK workforce, the company announced overnight.
Global software giant Oracle has commenced a recruitment drive for specialists to help deliver on a contract it inked several months ago to deliver the first step of a new core banking system to the National Australia Bank.
Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday in the US that it intends to buy storage specialist LeftHand Networks for US$360 million.
IT services firm ASG Group has acquired ASX-listed Oracle database firm AD-B Group for $3 million, claiming it gives the company an in-road to lucrative defence contracts.
Hewlett-Packard's move to chop about 24,600 jobs worldwide following its US$13.9 billion EDS buy might not have much impact on the merged group's operation in Australia, according to Australian Taxation Office CIO Bill Gibson.
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