Aruba CTO, Chief Architect Leaving In The Wake Of Founder Keerti Melkote’s Departure
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guys, it is simple, the golden handcuffs are off, so they are leaving. Typical scenario for most mergers are company officers and key employees they wish to retain during the f**k up merger, are given huge sums in escrow that are paid out quarterly. Typically for 2 years, in this case it looks like 3. The smarter people bolt as soon as the merger is complete. The "winners" stay and bear it and put up with the alignment meetings, training, etc. collecting their mega-bucks. And when it is all said and done, more was said than done. They leave, the merger fails silently and the wheel turns.
LOL. Silverpeak's software devs can't even make their solution function correctly with some of HPE's own office network configs! Brilliant those guys are!
Aruba cloud did not take off therefore HPE bought silver peak which had much better solution and paying customers. Silver peak top guys are taking over Aruba cloud since they know cloud and SDN much better than Aruba cloud.
Well, I've worked for many companies in my 20+ years in tech and ironically, HPE is the first where DNS is routinely broken, and the fundamental network infrastructure fails on a weekly basis. Maybe Keerti and his engineers just wanted a network that actually works?
Sensing some deja vu with HPE last year when three of their chief officers left the company at the same time.
This likely indicates that something is wrong and there’s been slow growth lately for Aruba.
Surprised that both of them stayed as long as they did these guys sell their companies and then run off and start new ones.
Rats are leaving the sinking ship. Same with Nimble.