For all of you who are predicting doom and gloom:
Read the Gartner Magic Quadrant report and learn about:
Gartner's evaluation of each vendor and their position on the quadrant
Strategic market direction
Why NetApp was recognized as a Leader, improving its position in Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision
LMAO - Keep paying your dues. Your sales people are scumbags. C rated at best. Con artists who claim and promise many things, but rarely can deliver. Your partners are bottom feeders who fake certifications and experience all for the win! F--- NetApp.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netapp-recognized-leader-gartner-magic-120000589.html
What a joke!....if you actually look at the Magic Quadrant, you'll see that it was actually Pure that was the clear winner in the Leader's quadrant.. Instead of wasting all that time and money pushing a solution nobody's ever heard of before like SolidFire, NetApp could have simply acquired Pure and been the clear leader in Flash. Similarly, instead of trying to build an HCI solution based on SolidFire, NetApp could have simply purchased Nutanix and been the leader there.
On the plus side, it's not too late to do that, but Kurian will never do that because Kurian's signature move when he became CEO was to acquire SolidFire, so doing what would make sense now would be admitting he made a huge mistake.
Glad to see there haven't been cuts to the NetApp marketing team. Weird place to push your product though. A site dedicated to layoff rumors will probably not increase your market shares in a commodity market space.