Hyperconverged playa Nutanix opened its .NEXT conference in Copenhagen with a triple announcement: an HPE GreenLake deal, its software pre-installed on HPE servers, and integration with ServiceNow for automated incident-handling. Six months after it first inked a deal with HPE around a subscription-access hyperconverged box, …

InterviewThough HPE's Spaceborne Computer is still fresh from its jaunt to the International Space Station, veep and CTO for HPC and AI Dr Eng Lim Goh is pondering a return visit and outfitting missions to Mars with the company's kit. The Register met Dr Goh after he'd been reassuring attendees at the Sibos 2019 event that AIs were …

HP Inc's incoming CEO kicked off his reign of terror at the hard-pressed organisation by doing what so many old-world tech company bosses do these days: chopping thousands of jobs and buying back shares. The plan is to lay off up to 16 per cent of the 55,000-strong workforce, shedding between 7,000 to 9,000 jobs via redundancy …

DXC Technology has been named in another class-action lawsuit that alleges mass redundancies were used by senior management to boost earnings but left the company unable to service contracted clients properly. Bragar, Eagel & Squire PC, a New York litigator specialising in securities cases, lodged the papers on 16 September ( …

Beleaguered IT outsourcing specialist DXC will open business Thursday minus the only CEO it has, to date, ever known, as Mike Lawrie is stepping down effective immediately. The US-based biz announced on Wednesday that Lawrie, who has operated as board chairman, president, and CEO ever since the company was formed in 2017 from …

InterviewNot content with stashing an Apollo-based supercomputer aboard the ISS, HPE will also be slinging the petaFLOPS for NASA's Ames Research Center. The Reg had a chat with supercomputing veteran Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of HPC and AI at HPE, who told us the company is looking beyond Earth orbit. Based on …

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" seems an appropriate phrase to describe the predicament facing server vendors. Following a record 2018, almost of all the major manufacturers recorded slimmer numbers in Q2. IDC stats show market revenue declined globally by 11.6 per year-on-year to $20bn, and shipments were down 9.3 …

HPE announced its fiscal third quarter results for this year on Tuesday, reporting mixed results with an overall dip in sales and growth in gross margins compared to the previous year. However, the enterprise giant couldn't do the biggest job – actually turning a profit. CEO Antonio Neri opened an earnings call with analysts …

Autonomy trialAs his marathon Autonomy-era cross-examination comes to an end, former CEO Mike Lynch has entered detailed denials to every allegation put to him by Hewlett Packard’s legal team – and appears to have the judge on his side. Over the last week, Lynch has been grilled in London's High Court by Laurence Rabinowitz QC about …

Autonomy TrialThe judge presiding over HPE and Mike Lynch's titanic courtroom clash has told HPE's lawyer to get to the point of his marathon cross-examination of Autonomy's former CEO. Barrister Robert Miles QC, Lynch's lawyer, questioned in court earlier this week "whether it's really cross-examination at all" for HPE's barrister to take …

Autonomy TrialLondon's High Court has seen emails from ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch in which he berated company salespeople for "a massive f***-up" after they bungled a major deal. As well as being probed over the raging emails, Lynch continued to be closely questioned about Autonomy's deals with one of its resellers, Filetek, as barrister …

Autonomy TrialFormer Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch sensationally admitted to London's High Court this afternoon that he has been reading courtroom evidence in advance of being questioned about it. Barrister Laurence Rabinowitz QC, counsel for HPE, was asking Lynch about the transcript of a phone conversation the ex-CEO had with an internal …

Autonomy TrialFormer Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has accused the financial director who brought an internal accounting scandal to his attention of trying to blackmail the software company – and denied suggestions he tried to find a pretext for sacking the beancounter. In courtroom exchanges with barrister Laurence Rabinowitz QC, Lynch described …

Brit software house Micro Focus is bleeding licensing revenue as sales people abandoned the business for pastures new, according to half-year financials filed today with the London Stock Exchange. In the six months ended 30 April, sales for the unit fell 11 per cent year-on-year to $343.7m; the only product categories to see …

Continued uncertainties caused by Brexit may be giving all sorts of businesses sleepless nights – but HP Inc claims it isn't among them. The world's second-largest PC maker – and the largest in Britain – made the bold statement in its latest set of profit and loss accounts for the year ended 31 October, filed with Companies …

Autonomy TrialFormer Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch oversaw the launch of what was purported to be a new product line in order to fraudulently pad its revenues, HPE’s lawyers have alleged. In 2009 Autonomy unveiled its Structured Probabilistic Engine, SPE. This was an extension of the Brit biz's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) product, an …

Fresh details have emerged revealing just how deeply Chinese government hackers plundered HPE, IBM, DXC, Fujitsu, Tata, and others, stealing corporate secrets and rifling through their customers' networks. An explosive in-depth report by Reuters today blows the lid off APT10, the infamous Beijing-backed hacking operation that …

Autonomy TrialMike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy, today told a court, “I was not involved in the vast majority of transactions,” that HP claims added up to a $5bn fraud it uncovered after buying the company from Lynch and then-CFO Sushovan Hussain. Right at the very end of Wednesday's opening of Lynch's cross-examination in London’s High …