I was with the Moonshot and Edgeline group until I got laid off in July 2020. Next week would be my first year of being gone at HPE. I still communicate with my friends at the company.
I was told that this organization was dissolving. The Moonshot product line is retiring and Edgeline would now be a private SKU (which probably means that no one else is going to buy it).
True, while that group didn’t make a ton of money for the company, it was the black sheep and we kept our margins high before COVID. It wasn’t really part of Neri’s mission of edge-to-cloud, however. Funding never came to our group to expand the portfolio. We were fragile and COVID proved that.
I am glad that I was able to leave the company but I’m concerned for my friends who are still there that was part of that organization, whoever is left that is. A lot of people left after my layoff. Sad to see a group that wanted to be different from the rest of HPE is now disappearing for good.
Curses to the bureaucracy of HPE. I hope Neri steps down from being CEO. How has their board not voted him out yet?