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Nortel quietly reshuffling staff, operations
Nortel is quietly undergoing organizational changes including the possible divestiture of its UMTS wireless business. Click here for details.
The true cost of telework
Do you know what you’re spending on IT resources to support teleworkers? If not, you’re not alone. To help clear the confusion, the General Services Administration commissioned a study of telework technology costs at 20 federal agencies. Booz Allen Hamilton surveyed 8,000 teleworkers and managers, along with telework program coordinators, agency CIOs and IT staff. Click here for the results.
Update: HP buying Mercury Interactive in $4.5 billion deal
HP said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to acquire Mercury Interactive, an IT management software and services firm, in a deal worth approximately $4.5 billion. Click here for more.
CMDBs reduce costs, automate daily tasks
Enterprise IT managers who want to resolve problems more quickly, manage the lifecycle of software and hardware assets, and adopt IT governance best practices have probably talked about implementing a configuration management database. Click here to learn all about CMDBs.
The You Issue: The World Golf Foundation
This inside look at one of the cool places you work reveals the challenging daily rounds of Raul Ramos, IS director at the premier golf venue. and read the story.
Avaya CEO steps down
Donald Peterson, who has been CEO of Avaya since it was spun off from Lucent in 2000, stepped down from that job and the post of president on Tuesday. He will relinquish his position as chairman on Sept. 30. Click here for more.
Rule #1 when doing PR for an anti-spam vendor: Don’t spam
This isn’t exactly brain surgery, yet the fellow at a PR agency called Rocket Science managed to violate Rule #1 while attempting to drum up publicity for Singlefin, which provides e-mail, IM and Web filtering services to the likes of Juno and NetZero. Click here for more Buzzblog.
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