NetApp keeps being the club of who likes whom. We have some of these guys protecting each other and not being laid off. Why? Small circles, favorite guys...
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Plenty of directors in ONTAP were let go, too
The problem with HCI was not the sales teams, it was the product they were given to sell. It was not particularly compelling or competitive.
What about directors and senior directors? Are they all safe? If they are, then it is BS. There are redundant directors in many teams. Individual contributors are targeted for what ? Netapp will Profit more if they stop targeting ICs and look at redundant roles at leadership instead.
To the person saying OnTap pays the bills. Storage is a dead sector for growth. If you ar hugging OnTap you are hugging a commodity resource. It doesn’t lead anywhere as a feature set anymore. NetApp either needed to get strong with HCI through partners, get acquired, or really redefine themselves. Unfortunately they don’t have the redefine capability like MS did as they missed the opportunity when the war chest was big enough and are now stuck.
Meanwhile EMC continues to hire and sells the S*&% out of HCI
When you say the masses, are you referring to NetApp's customers or the entire industry?
"The masses don't want K8s or openstack sh– either, who are you kidding. "
It might be the industry wants it, but they don't want it from NetApp.
The masses don't want K8s or openstack sh– either, who are you kidding. HCI just doesn't offer enough value over an ONTAP + X brand servers is the bottom line. The Solidfire acquisition looked great to wall street and helped drive the "next generation" narrative at NetApp and drive the stock price up for a while. That's over now and now NetApp will sink money into other narratives while ONTAP pays the bills.
fun fact, they underfunded and simply refused to properly staff a team to build hci, pretended that the ontap sales force was remotely capable of selling anything other than ontap, then refused to listen to actual people who had experience in the space and put out their "nutanix k–ler" at the same time, diverted engineering staff away from solidfire core functionality and let the product simply die when the vast majority of seasoned engineers jumped. message to the masses, stick with what you know, and you dont know cloud, k8, or anything other than ontap
The problem with the HCI sales is that the core sales team won't sell anything that does not start with on or end with tap.
makes you wonder, the boneheads who decided to invest in HCI but not build a real HCI solution and come to market much later than the already mature options out there, the f— were they thinking and why do they still have jobs.
should have been on the k8s/openstack bandwagon from the get go. This company is mismanaged, from what I can tell it has very little to do w/ the people who work here.
Clearly not your circle.