Can anyone add any veracity to this?
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-4cpx, I think you hit the nail on the head with "... while we cross our fingers behind our backs."
Testing organizations have been repeatedly decimated by layoffs (and of course, the underlying "forced distribution" performance reviews combined with those constant layoffs, resulting in dog-eat-dog dynamics in the workplace, instead of teamwork). So critical testing gets short-changed. Right now there is a feature on just-now-newly-introduced servers that has been there for generation after generation of servers... And the latest servers omitted it! No one ever bothered to see if the customers would miss it; it just got dropped. So now, customers are cancelling orders for the new servers. This is what I heard from a reliable source... I don't now what the feature is. The gutting of testing functions and organizations, I have seen personally.
In some organizations, there is no "fire in the belly" or motivation to get things done, any more... Just a shell-shocked numbness, waiting for the next random layoffs.
What cloud layoffs? I thought we finished this off by getting rid of HP Public cloud and laying those folks off, then laid off a few more folks before they spun people off to SUSE, then laid some more people off to kill off Cloudsystem remnants. What's left are people working on new cloud technology trying to be the "we support every cloud from openstack to azure to aws to vmware to everything you can imagine; we can do anything and everything so please buy from us while we cross our fingers behind our backs."
ArcSight PS? What region?
WFR’s Just his Professional Services on the security side. Guess revenue generating positions are not immune.
HPE dropped out of the public cloud race in late 2015 because they couldn't compete with Amazon and the others. They were partnering with Microsoft Azure but that may not of gone well because Microsoft wouldn't buy their hardware unless there was deep discounts.
So in the end HPE isn't providing any infrastructure or platform cloud services.
"Cloud [services department] layoffs"
As in cloud computing technology.
I can confirm that changes are coming.
Cloud computing services... See http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/240152878/the-top-10-enterprise-cloud-services-companies.htm for example.
I am not sure where-all HPE supports this. I saw a cloud-related HPE opening in Houston, so Houston must be on the list... Not sure who all else...
That there is a Houston opening would tend to say they may not lay off much in cloud-related stuff. Maybe... Or maybe they are up to their usual trick of laying off the older workers and replacing them with youngsters, H-1Bs, and overseas hires, for the most part. Who knows...
Pardon my ignorance but what is a "cloud layoff"?
To clarify, heard rumors of this happening in the last week or so.