Massive layoffs and product abandonment on the way. First in line will be object. You can't be a profitable if the unit price of what you sell declines below the cost of producing and selling it. Object is now completely commoditized while the company still pays sales as if merits high margin.
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E-series is a joke of a product now and it pains me greatly as I've worked on it for almost 25 years. It's either feature deficient or massively overpriced compared to other products. It's price to value has got to be the worst in the industry. Even the junk Seagate and IBM products are better and cheaper then E-series or maybe Seagate and IBM are great and I drank too much kool-aid. The only thing it has is reliability and even though it's probably industry leading, it only has a minimal advantage. I'm a historical SANtricity bigot, but I've seen the ASA pricing, I know what it can do, and aside from a few corner cases, which I see as unable to justify the ever increasing cost of the platform, E-series should just be dumped for ASA.
What's the value of E-series vs supermicro?
What's happening with E-Series, will it survive or be gone?
The performance review was purposefully timed to create a list of individuals who will be laid off after Q4 wraps. They will take the blame for our miss. If you are marked as an underperformer you are added to the list and then laid off with potentially no severance for underpfroming. Its not a layoff, its a termination!
There is already a plan in place to sell off low margin products by selectively eliminating them and the sales staff that supports them. In other words anything that's not flash running ONTAP.