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 …

HPE has generated a third hyperconverged system from its acquired Nimble Storage tech, providing yet another ProLiant server route to market. Not content with touting its SimpliVity line and doing a semi-detached dance with Nutanix in GreenLake, HPE has slung out a third hyperconverged system – the Nimble dHCI. The product …

HPE – the company that failed to cut it in the public cloud and offloaded its Enterprise Services biz a few years back – wants to make its whole portfolio available to buy as-a-service by 2022. The grand old lady of tech today revealed that enterprises will be able to slurp its hardware via a mix of subscription, pay-per-use, …

HPE has pitched Primera, its new high-end storage platform, at mission-critical applications, and it may eventually edge out the 3PAR line. "HPE Primera is for mission-critical applications and large-scale consolidation for enterprises. HPE Nimble Storage [is] for business critical applications for small and medium enterprises …

Cray has won a $50m-plus contract to provide 1 exabyte of ClusterStor storage for Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Frontier exascale supercomputer in the United States. Frontier is a $600m-plus Cray-AMD exascale system, rated at up to 1.5 exaFLOPS, due to be delivered in 2021 with acceptance in 2022. It will be a follow- …

A "highly skilled IT professional" has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated. Matthew White joined Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and left in July 2015, just months before the company split into HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). …

While HP may be struggling to meet demand for its new idiot visors, HPE's Spaceborne Computer has returned to Earth after 615 days onboard the International Space Station. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's baby, a box based on its Apollo 40-Class computer system (a two-socket Xeon affair usually found elsewhere at NASA), was flung …

Autonomy TrialMeg Whitman will enter the High Court’s witness box today to give evidence about HP’s controversial purchase and $8.8bn writedown of Mike Lynch’s British software firm Autonomy. As the CEO who sacked Lynch from HP after the ill-fated acquisition, and an HP board member in the run-up to the Autonomy deal, Whitman is likely to …

HPE has blamed "trade tensions" between the US and China on customers delaying purchases amid the uncertainty as the company reported yet another quarter of declining sales. The US government has tacked a 25 per cent tariff on $250m worth of goods imported from China, and is also in the process of banning Huawei and other …