Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

There is no reason to use K8s if you can regenerate actual C code with the help of AI now.
Its just making everything slow, fat and full of security holes. The footprint and interlock dependencies of K8s is huge.

@1sg PPDM is a steaming pile. Like right after eating corn and dairy with eggs and cabbage

Coz dell is a box pusher...how much terrible code have they released {

SRP we got your six is so dead

Dell developed the market leader PPDM. There are several companies who run this powerful tool which is far more capable than rubrik veeeam cohesity net backup Commvault . Dedupski is a mo--n

@OP apex absolutely suuks

Kubernetes dou--es which have infested every orifice of the company, pushing up the requirements to run anything as well as the complexity of maintaining something you fundamentally cannot control or understand. Oh wait.. yeah we're "huge" opensource contributors. Sooooo many committers. Absolutely impressive. Dell is an awe inspiring example of an opensource parasite company. Hello, World. Insert 16GB of memory at all time high prices.

Powerflex is a prime example, worked great in 3.x and was such a simple concept, then they decided to throw kubernetes at it and over complicate PFMP for whatever reason. Now they are scrapping it again as customers decided to pull the plug,....

@h1, just look at the discipline of those pushing SDD, and it will become clear (although it still won’t make sense as a way to effectively develop SW)

@gb SRP formerly DPS has some real winners there. The reps and engineers leaving in drives. Engineering thinned out got the shiiiiiit can. Secure detect recover your own azz

Being in software myself I can tell you it's all because of way too many:

1. Meetings
2. Product managers
3. Defect managers
4. Program managers
5. Other groups making meetings
6. AI changes to the development model (seriously look at how many steps SDD is)
7. iDRAC

If you're looking for the right answer it's a combination of

1) Upper management overselling.
2) The ones actually supposed to make it happen are underpaid actual Indians.

And then finally 1 pushing to release whatever and then blame 2.

(and the blatant lack of 3 which would be seeing a pattern of 1 overpromising and underdelivering)

The same goes for all the software at Dell. ODW, some small tool, you name it.

@fp Don't forget the ineptitude of Product Management as well. Santorini had Travis V's name all over it (probably why he got canned) but it also had David N's hands all over it, along with countless other failed project initiatives under the incompetence of ISG product leadership.

Dell bought companies that knew how to develop software. After the handcuffs were off, the leaders (management and technical) left for other companies, and Dell hired “professional managers” - process people with no real software innovation capabilities. The Santorini project (and it’s renamed version) are perfect examples of the ineptitude of the leaders in SW development.

@es 😂 LOL!! Dell has nothing to do with AI. And Mr Dell doesn't even know what it means.

@OP DELL is an AI company like NVDA is. Mr Dell was at the AI meeting with Trump this week but left before the photo ops occurred as he had another AI deal to close.

@c0 No, it's not a different business model or go-to-market motion.

Dell is a parts assembler and reseller company pretending to be a technology company. It has failed at virtually every internally developed software solution it has ever tried, and has failed at virtually every acquisition over the years. Why? Poor leadership with no clue what theyre doing in enterprise software.

I think it is a very different business model and go-to-market motion and requires different attitudes, sales motions, and requires investment to do both, and not many big computer companies do both well. Maybe only Apple does both, and they do it mostly from a consumer perspective.

It amazes me how many employees have no idea what industry/market their employer is in. Also, ODW is not Dell software dev, something else employees have no idea what they are talking about

Offer customers useful Enterprise SW?!! They can’t even get their internal SW right! ODW case in point.

@OP why can’t they develop software ?
Because fundamentally all the place knows what to do is source parts to put together a laptop. Next question.

Sometimes I think they are going to sell pieces of Dell off. Then again, the stock is doing so well.