Autonomy TrialA City analyst was accused of being "seriously unethical" after selectively telling investors in Autonomy to sell their stocks in the firm, London's High Court heard earlier this week. "I may have told some investors to sell Autonomy while I had a hold recommendation, yes," one-time Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland testified on …

Autonomy trialThe boss of an HPE-affiliated reseller asked a barrister "what is this exactly?" when shown a copy of his own witness statement in London's High Court. Capax Discovery CEO John Baiocco then said he was "pretty sure" his HPE-funded lawyer had written it for him. Just to reinforce what he said, Baiocco then added that "these are …

Despite HPE's previous public efforts to distance itself from a hookup with Nutanix, it will, in fact team up with the punchy storage startup to ship a subscription-access hyperconverged box. Art of Fighting featured a story... of sorts Partners? With them? No way, says HPE of Nutanix READ MORE The system is available under …

Autonomy TrialWith the Autonomy trial well and truly under way, what is each side saying about auditors' reports and due diligence? The Register has been through the legal papers to distil it down. The state of Autonomy's auditing and pre-buyout due diligence forms an important part of HPE's pleaded case against ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike …

Number crunchers at IDC told the world this morning that international converged systems market revenue grew 14.8 per cent year-on-year to reach $4.15bn in the final quarter of 2018. HPE and other hyperconverged also-rans found themselves once again grabbing at the tail end of a burgeoning converged-slash-hyperconverged market …

Autonomy TrialFormer HP top man Léo Apotheker told the High Court yesterday morning that Mike Lynch described Autonomy to him as a "pure-play software company". HPE's case is that nobody from their side knew very much about Autonomy's hardware dealings before it bought the unstructured data analysis business for $11bn in 2011. Autonomy's …

Autonomy TrialFormer HP CEO Léo Apotheker has claimed that if controversial British software company Autonomy's accounts were accurate, "I doubt that HP would have pursued an acquisition of Autonomy at all" – even as he admitted he himself hadn't read its quarterly results before getting HP to buy it in 2011. Apotheker's bold claim, made in …

Autonomy TrialIf Autonomy's accounts were fraudulent, an awful lot of people must have been part of the scam, its former CFO Sushovan Hussain's barrister told the High Court in London yesterday. I just got here – what's it all about? In 2011, HP bought Autonomy – a maker of software to keep track of unstructured data, founded by Mike Lynch …

Autonomy TrialHP furiously lobbied key British government ministers in late 2012 as part of a desperate effort to "preserve the credibility" of CEO Meg Whitman after its $8.8bn writedown of Autonomy – including direct phone calls to the then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron, London's High Court learned this morning. The writedown was seen as …

Efforts to lure, evolve and hold on to staff are proving quite troublesome for DXC Technology's Security practice as the beleaguered outsourcing biz continues to wage war on its cost base. biz bod calculates - seems upset by answer DXC Security exec: Yes, I'd have thought we'd spend more on certs and laptop kit for staff, too …

Autonomy TrialEx-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch’s counterclaim against HPE, amid their ongoing legal battle over HP's ill-fated $11bn acquisition of Autonomy in 2011, will fail – because it was filed against the wrong legal entity, HPE’s barrister boldly claimed in court this afternoon. Stating that Lynch’s £121m ($160m) counterclaim was in actual …

Autonomy trialThe judge in the Autonomy trial at London's High Court has questioned a key plank of HPE's case against former execs Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain, asking whether Autonomy's accounting practices were in fact fraudulent – which is what HPE has alleged. I just got here – what's it all about? In 2011, HP bought Autonomy – a …

The boss of HPE's 3PAR has quit for a cloudier future as head of storage at Amazon Web Services. Ivan Iannaccone joined 3PAR in 2009 to troubleshoot escalating issues and remained on board after it was bought by HPE, ultimately running product management until he exited for the same position at Pure Storage. He stayed for …

Autonomy TrialFormer Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch was "most certainly aware" that his British software company had fraudulently hyped up its performance using a carousel of "revenue-pumping" fake sales, HPE's lawyers told London's High Court on Monday. Lynch had Autonomy buy software and other products from its value-added resellers (VARs …

Autonomy TrialMike Lynch's Autonomy Corporation pumped up its value by paying its own customers to buy its products so Autonomy could inflate its accounts, London's High Court was told this morning. Laurence Rabinowitz QC, counsel for HPE, told Mr Justice Hildyard that under Lynch and former CFO Sushovan Hussain, Autonomy "engaged in a …

Autonomy TrialToday begins the tech trial of the year: HPE has hauled Mike Lynch into London's High Court, claiming $5bn from the one-time chief exec of ill-fated UK software firm Autonomy. The case is the culmination of years of bitter wrangling between HPE and Lynch over the former's $11bn buyout of Autonomy in 2011. After the buyout, HP …

US prosecutors have slapped three more criminal charges on ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch, accusing him of securities and wire fraud regarding HP's acquisition of his company. Lynch, once dubbed Britain's answer to Bill Gates, flogged Autonomy, a software company he founded, to the American tech titan in 2011 for $11bn (£ …

HPE has pulled the sheets off a service designed to advise punters on the bits of their IT infrastructure to keep in-house, and the workloads to offload to public cloud data centres. Right Mix Advisor comprises a bunch of software tools, consulting from HPE's Pointnext division and migration assistance. Some of the features …