All hardware groups and sales teams will be downsized. Bye bye E Series and StorageGrid as well as low end FAS.
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Is it official?
Actually, we'd all prefer to annoy you when you aren't skiing.
Since you seem to know who posts the opinions you disagree with why don't you identify yourself by name. You take the cowards route belittling others while remaining anonymous. lts pretty obvious that you are just an inconsequential and frankly not very bright fan boy.
looks like this is an accurate forecast considering netapp is pulling out of CA.
Pure trolls can’t help themselves. Really it’s one former NetApp employee (now at Pure) who posts this stuff and we all know who he is.
Truth is NetApp realigns every March so of course the troll is going to claim something massive and it never turns out to be anywhere as large as his vengeful posts claim.
Company execution always changes due to leadership and culture.
This is no exception!!!!
Both of the previous comments are laughable. First off NetApp "honesty" is a myth. It is all about profit no matter who gets hurt. Stop listening to Kurian crocodile tears. NetApp management is amongst the most predatory in the business. That applies internally as well as externally.
Secondly Cloud is diametrically opposed to hardware especially object and block. NetApp is SUN Microsystems ...... SPARC and Solaris didn't save them and FAS/Ontap will not save NetApp nor will StorageGrid and ESeries which are not even best of breed products. Like Compaq and SUN NetApp will end up in someones basement.
Netapp isnt a filer company anymore. We provide hybrid cloud data solutions in a simplified experience as a service. Hardware is not that important in today’s highly competition market where customers need a cheap solution today and have it scale tomorrow.
With this in mind, legacy solutions have no place. The whole idea of cloud discourages individuals to buy their own hardware solutions. There’s still a need of course, but it’s a dying commodity market. Netapp leverages their software and honesty you’re best off elsewhere for hardware.
@6ojn+188RfAAW - What the people who think ntap is going to dump E-series or StorageGrid fail to realize is if ntap does dump one or both of those then they no longer have a block storage or an object-based offering ceding the market to EMC, Hitachi Vantara, HP, and all the upstart storage vendors. E-Series and StorageGRID opens the door to keeping their filers on the floor in the data center. Datacenter operators want to deal with one vendor when it comes to buying as much of their storage gear as possible so when there is a problem there is one throat to choke and no finger-pointing going on!
Wouldn’t be shocked to any of the above
Let's be serious for a moment. When profits are up NetApp lays people off. The best indicator of a layoff is a positive earnings call.
When a VP sends an organization-wide email reporting disinvestment against some of the lower performers in the org's product portfolio, you know that your job is secure.
E-Series is a low margin product which is already being sold by Lenovo who can subsidize even lower margins. It makes no sense to keep it.
E Series is red hot right now, particularly in super computing space. It absolutely crushes Pure in nearly every account which is why they want to spread this FUD. Watch the down votes now as proof.
More BS from Pure trolls, just ignore. There is no reference whatsoever to anything credible.
Hilarious! AL's org was the most dysfunctional place I've ever worked. No coherent strategy, and trying to play catchup tech-wise, with teams full of bench warmers.
E-series and StorageGRID aren't going anywhere. Low-end FAS/AFF is an entrypoint to get NetApp in the door. Your second sentence is ludicrous.
They aren't getting rid of e-series, they're building e-series a new building.
Way overdue on the e-Series dump, haven't added any value since acquiring.
Really. What software are they selling exactly? If you are talking the Cloud Mesh stuff, that isn't worth much. There are already better solutions. If you mean Cloud OnTap. ok....same. Once they get rid of the HW they are getting rid of the only thing that is keeping them afloat.
There is an internal project scoping out what is needed to turn NetApp into a software only company. All hardware based offerings will sold off. AL will most likely head up the new company and GK will get a huge golden parachute for dismantling and winding down the rest.If you're selling or engineering hardware based offerings you're a goner.
Where is this info coming from?!?
So whats new? I would be surprised if there are no layoffs every quarter. This is a dead company. Get out when you can
Wouldn't be surprised. After all all, netapp is cloud specialist now.