Total revenue per employee for those products is way out of bounds.
Direct attach E is not useful for modern workloads plus it competes with FAS for FCP workloads and StorageGrid is a me too product whose engineers have already left for companies like VAST
The ship is taking in water and Kurian will toss everything overboard so that his stock and RSUs maintain value before he leaves with the golden parachute.
Anyone who works in thos groups should already be looking for work someplace else.
My manager mentioned that SG had been hit pretty hard by the this last round of layoffs.
That goes without saying at this point. You don't sh----n that many people on a product unless it's over.
Apparently E-series was brought up at a Wichita town hall today. It was hinted at that there are discussions about discontinuing the product line. Of course, that is all second-hand as I was not there.
SG will be displaced by ONTAP S3.
ONTAP IS NetApp.
A higher up and a TME left for Vast from SG. Don't act like it was a mass exodus lol
Problem with getting rid of E-Series and StorageGrid is you are ceding the market to competitors like Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, etc. who all have filer, block, and object based storage solutions. As a solutions architect. I am going to buy all my onprem storage gear, including FC/iSCSI switches from ONE COMPANY so when there is a problem there is one throat to choke. The cloud is making onprem obsolete but there are certain, legacy applications that are not cloud ready AND also there are certain user communities that cannot tolerate high latency associated with certain cloud applications. I don't think NetApp wants to go back to being a company whose only offering are archaic filers...
Don't you think that E and Storagegrid are always in the same situation at each layoff cycles, what makes you believe this is the time, what is different now ? Is there still OEM for LSI/engenio ?
This is absolutely true. I've worked with a StorageGrid customer facing resource who I or the customers have never seen in person and who probably works 10 hours a week. We can not pay high salaries to people who don't work for products that contribute almost nothing to the bottom line and cut highly productive employees who get stack ranked out of existence for political reasons.