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• CA staff get three months parental leave

  CA Technologies is dishing out three months paid leave to men and women during the first 12 months following the birth or adoption of their child.

• Self assurance and company support key to being a successful woman in IT

  ​Barely a month goes by without a horror story involving sexual harassment or discrimination emerging from the tech industry.

• DOJ files gov't contracting lawsuit against CA

  Tech vendor CA has overcharged U.S. government agencies for software licenses and maintenance since 2006, according to a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice Thursday.

• In Pictures: Top tech hoarders - 15 companies with huge cash piles

  Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco are flush with cash, and so are many other tech companies

• Post-merger Vodafone, 3 unify project management

  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 selling off information governance software to Autonomy

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

• CA World: Cloud computing is new turning point, says CEO

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

• CA teams with Cisco and delivers new cloud, virtualisation technologies

  CA is expanding its partnership with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> 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 <a href=" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022410-ca-acquisition.html">buying spree</a>, in which the company purchased vendors 3Tera, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111110-ca-buys-oblicore.html">Oblicore</a> and Cassatt.

• CA changes name, again

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

• CA cutting 1000 jobs

  CA is planning to cut about 1000 jobs, or roughly 7.7 percent of its workforce, according to a document filed Tuesday with the US Securities & Exchange Commission.

• CA to buy Nimsoft

  CA said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy IT performance monitoring vendor Nimsoft for US$350 million.

• CA continues cloud computing buying spree

  CA on Wednesday announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire for an undisclosed sum a company called 3Tera, a move that industry watchers say will equip the management software maker with tools to offer customers a smoother transition to private and public cloud computing.

• CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss

  CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.

• CA names new CEO

  Infrastructure software giant CA's board of directors has appointed William McCracken CEO, the company announced Thursday.

• Novell vows first identity management for cloud, virtualized apps

  Virtualization and cloud computing has taken off, despite strong concerns lingering over how companies can secure and manage those apps and data.