Ill-fated British software company Autonomy's one-time US sales chief is reluctant to testify in person against former CEO Mike Lynch, the High Court in London heard yesterday morning. HPE, which is suing Lynch in the UK over the $8.8bn writedown of Autonomy after buying the firm in 2012, wants to call Christopher Egan to give …

HPE wants Sushovan Hussain, convicted ex-CFO of infamous British software company Autonomy, to give evidence in HPE's UK lawsuit against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch before his own potential US prison sentence. In legal filings seen by The Register, HPE's lawyers said: "There remains uncertainty as to when Mr Hussain's …

Intel has announced the official, pinky-swear, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die end to its Itanium line, notifying system makers that production of the server processors will end by mid-2021. In a notice [PDF] sent out to vendors earlier this week, Intel said that the Itanium 9700 series would take its final order on January 30 …

Oracle's copyright battle with HPE over operating system software has been kicked out of court. The suit began in 2016, when Big Red accused HPE of improperly partnering with maintenance biz Terix Computer to sell third-party support for the Solaris operating system. Oracle said only authorised partners can support the OS. …

RoundupThis week we saw Hadoop hacks, Exchange exploits, and Deadpool besting scammers. Here's some more computer security news to round off your week... Alarms sounded over incoming Cisco attacks Earlier this week, Cisco cleaned up a series of security flaws in its routers. Now, admins are being urged to apply those fixes as soon …

Networks roundupIs it any surprise that Cisco remained the dominant force in enterprise infrastructure during 2018? Synergy Research this week reported Switchzilla's footprint in the $125bn market has slipped by a couple of percentage points year-on-year, but the company still holds a 23 per cent share of the spoils. The main reason for …

Inspur, Huawei and Lenovo collectively shipped more servers this year than either Dell or HPE, according to research outfit DRAMeXchange. The Chinese suppliers share of the 12.4 million servers shipped was 19.9 per cent, compared to Dell EMC's 16.7 per cent and HPE's 15.1 per cent. Next year it is expected to be 21.4 per cent …

The continued data centre refresh cycle and seemingly insatiable demand from the big cloud slingers to bulk out their infrastructure saw server vendors make hay while the sun shone in Q3. Global market revenues climbed 37.7 per cent to $23.36bn and shipments went up 18.3 per cent to 3.161m, according to stats from IDC. Dell, …

HPE boss Antonio Neri put the wraps on his first year as CEO with another solid fiscal quarter. The enterprise computing giant closed out its fiscal 2018 with a total of $31bn in revenues, capped by an $8bn fourth quarter of the year. For the quarter, ending October 31: Revenues of $7.9bn were up 3.7 per cent from $7.7bn in …

HPE DiscoverThe ongoing US-China trade squabble will have little effect on HPE, chief exec Antonio Neri boldly predicted to the world's tech press. China v USA Tech world mulls threat as new round of US China trade tariffs looms READ MORE Speaking at HPE's Discover conference in Madrid earlier this week, Neri reckoned the international …

ExclusiveThe Register can reveal that Dell EMC is looking to add storage-class memory (SCM) and NVMe drives and fabric across its storage portfolio and that HPE's Nimble arrays will get SCM support in 2019. At a briefing this week, Dell EMC storage product marketing manager Bob Fine told us SCM was already an incoming technology on …

HPE Discover 2018Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton used to be a PFY working on mainframes before his racing career took off, he revealed today during HPE's Discover conference in Madrid. The British racing driver, who notched up yet another Grand Prix victory in Abu Dhabi last Saturday, was at the conference to talk about how HPE's tech support …

HPE has gobbled BlueData, purveyor of the EPIC Big Data-as-a-service software that can run large-scale distributed analytics and machine learning workloads in Docker containers. The business was founded in 2012 by CEO Kumar Sreekanti and chief architect Tom Phelan, and has taken in just $39m in funding. There have been three …

HPE Discover 2018HPE chief exec Antonio Neri reckons what the corporate world really wants is to have a nice cloud "experience," which is an interesting way of saying "please, please, buy our cloud-as-a-service". In a mostly unremarkable keynote speech at this week's HPE Discover knees-up in Madrid, Neri informed attendees that his firm is " …

HPE has made its storage arrays faster with Optane caching, while adding containerisation support to its Cloud Volume Nimble arrays to bridge on-premises, AWS and Azure public clouds. First XPoint, then Z-NAND: Oh dear, server-makers. SCM is happening READ MORE It is also beefing up InfoSight 3PAR and Nimble array management …

HPE Discover 2018Don't want a full blown data centre? Not a problem, said HPE today as it lifted the curtain on a fresh clutch of edge networking products – including a software platform – under its Edgeline brand. The "converged edge systems" are aimed at bringing together operational tech and what we traditionally see as IT, according to …

HPE Discover 2018HPE is updating its wares to reduce the skill level needed to deploy its so-called composable infrastructure. Composable infrastructure is its fancy term for pools of networking, storage, and compute resources, all managed as one platform through software and automation, and not necessarily hosted all on-premises. It can look …

HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless hotspots supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword. The Aruba 510 access points, along with "complementary access switches", support the long-in-the-pipeline Wi-Fi 6 standard. That standard was …