Post spin-offs, we'll be basically a HW Company that sell its products to cloud and hyper/converged big customers and resellers... Right? At least that's what I believe we'll be... Is that your understanding as well? I don't think we'll be a "solutions" provider anymore...
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@KEOUlwp-3vva - nice thought, but when Meg is finished, having HPE on your resume will be like having Enron on it. Sure, you might just be a drone, but the taint will still be there for others.
Find your opportunities sooner rather than later, while that resume entry still means something.
What will we become? Easy... We'll continue to be the undisputed champion of poor customer service, mediocrity, and bad management. The only difference is that we won't be competing in the heavyweights anymore after the spinoffs. We'll be a middle-weight loser, I mean, "champion"... I don't know of any other tech company with such a low employee morale and lack of trust and confidence in their upper management team... We are just waiting to be back-stabbed at any time...
HPE still has its name out there. Use the brand as an advantage when looking for jobs out there (especially when applying to small companies in Industries out of the tech sector).
HPE is going to be boxes. The sales people know how to sell boxes. And that's great, given that software-defined infrastructure is going to be what drives this industry for the next 10 years, so companies will be buying less hardware and emphasizing density.
Do what you know, I guess, but this sounds like a $3B company, not a $30B one. Whatever ruins are left will be scooped up by one of the remaining hardware providers who survive this crunch.
Technology Services Consulting will be part of the remaining HPE
Why then is labs getting WFRed and the The Machine not becoming a real product? Doesn't make sense to me what you're saying.
Just think for a minute, who makes our hardware now? Foxconn. (Same for HPQ) I hope you know that. The racks are made by Rittal, almost every chassis for everything else is made by Foxconn. The motherboards are designed and made by Foxconn. The PC's, consumer and commercial in the lab, have stickers detailing the CPU, memory, chassis, motherboard, ODD, HDD, power supply manufacturers and every one said Foxconn for chassis/case and motherboard. The laptops are Wistron, Quanta and Foxconn. It's been that way for years.
Meg is only interested in the "labs" part that will be what she considers to be the equivalent of IBM, hence "The Machine", Meg's equivalent the IBM's Deep Blue and Watson ( in her dreams).
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a Foxconn Company.
I really believe we're eventually being sold to Microsoft. It's only question of time.
Company will eventually be nothing, nonexistent.
Everything is for sale....
My understanding is that we'll be a "boxes" manufacturer (mainly servers), with a very small portfolio of focused software to manage them. I wouldn't be surprised if the Industry Standard Servers PLs are eventually sold as well, reducing even more our size.
Sorry I had to laugh when I read your post, OP... When has HP/HPE being a "solutions" provider? Lol! Since I've been here (1995), the only thing we have been to our customers is a "complexity" provider... :)