Just another in the long line of failed acquisitions. NetApp is a hamster wheel of failure. The rest of the world has moved on. Only teflon NetApp executives remain. Take a look around and realize how many employees do absolutely nothing.
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HCI was not an acquisition. Credibility of your complaint gone in the first sentence.
If they give StorageGrid the ax, they no longer have an object-based storage product to go to market with. People are always saying Engenio storage needs to go too but again, they bought it so they would have a block storage offering. So I just don't see it happening
If it's being sold everywhere maybe you can share how much revenue it generates so we can compare it to the other products.
SGrid is not going anywhere. It is being sold into more solutions than ever. And HCI is gone, but the underlying SolidFire is still going.
Such knee-jerk false claims are so rampant!
According to Dave Wright was the moment of selling SF to NetApp the best move ever. The main reason : cash in your chips as soon as possible and get the hell out of the place before you get lurked into the world of complacency. The idea of rebuilding SF into HCI solution was never an option for the original SF crew and hated the idea. The rest of the story is known. But you know Georgy, he insisted to create an HCI solution without any compelling value, like in his old days within Cisco as VeeP of product engineering. The NetApp team hated it also because it's not ONTAP based. If it ain't ONTAP, it doesn't exist. SF was a very good solution (not product) for a matured market to simplify operations by using commodity hardware and a software-defined storage layer. Element X would have been a great asset as a separate strategy for NetApp in non-ONTAP opportunities. The SF investment (amortization) is hidden or buried on the balance sheet to cover the overall.....(need to take a deep breath....) success. Ex SF folks have predicted it back in 2017 and it took relative a long time to expel the revenue donor organ.
SolidFire people all moved to work on Astra, the next thing for NetApp.
HCI is a manifestation of NetApp hubris. Just another failed product and strategy. How much did GK pay for SF and what was the ROI?
That's laughable. Every reference on the external web uses WebScale. Yes it's true NetApp cares a lot more about perception and product names than adding value. If that's your defense of it's value as a product you're delusional.
HCI wasn't an acquisition, IDK why this keeps getting perpetuated. This was entirely GK trying to break into a market that was already years beyond where we were. There was no acquired IP for HCI, entirely built from scratch and mismanaged into the ground. Maybe yall mad that they were built on top of SF?
The fact that it dropped the name Webscale years ago proves you don't know what's actually going on with the product.
Dream on. All the headcount in the world, new buildings and free seeds to customers didn't save HCI. Like SolidFire .... WebScale is an outsider within the company. The products with the smallest percentage of total revenue are always the first to go.
StorageGrid has been around for ~10 yrs, grows in sales and team members every quarter. Absorbed some members from last layoffs and has reqs open. I don't think so Tim.