Thread regarding NetApp (formerly Network Appliance Inc.) layoffs

Good luck with layoffs

I am sorry that you have to go through another round of job cuts - I am not with NetApp any more but I was a contractor there a few years back and I truly liked the team overall. I had a chance to convert to FT, but I always felt that the product was too complex, the code was super monolithic and it would take us forever to test things and make sure we continue forward.

Sometimes I felt all things are frozen, not sure, but it just did not feel right from the product perspective. Anyhow, hang in there, the market is good and your skills will be in demand - whatever happens just be ready and get the ball rolling on the recruitment side ASAP. Good luck.

by K Arbeola
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Ditto on the "cloud washing" comment. Cloud ONTAP is not a mature product and there is little to no sales enablement for it.

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The company has moved away from focusing on the customer. They have been so consumed with the 7 mode to cDOT transition that they were really late to flash and missed the cloud totally. The opportunities for this company have been squandered. The company strategy until very recently was close the gaps in CDOT and customers will buy. Well, we closed the gaps and customers went to the cloud instead.

The lack of situational awareness probably started with Dan W's final couple of years, and accelerated tremendously under Tom G. George is trying to turn things around, but it is almost too late. We literally are building products that our customers do not want to buy.

Our company calls FlexPod cloud should tell you everything about were we are at. Our customers are fleeing to the public cloud as fast as they can. Our response has been to create poorly performing Cloud ONTAP product and NetApp Private Storage. The former is a cynical exercise in giving our customers a choice of poor performance in the cloud or buy on-premises gear you didn't want to buy. The latter is just cloud washing wrapped in a solution.

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