Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

ex HPE employees are highly likely to become HPE customers, recommenders, influencers or downright loathers of their former employer. Always a thought for consideration when Madame la Guillotine is doing her ugly work.

@PrtpUpu-2tck .. Think again..

I'm pretty sure an HPE customer wouldn't come to this site and belly ache. Prolly the same fella oozing sour grapes from time to time. Move on Cochise...move on.

Frankly, HP(e) has forgotten about "who" pays the bills and is overly consumed with navel gazing and spinning market-tecture with no substance. Downsizing ... sure .. it's a business reality.. but actually "Solving business problems" seems to be a after thought. Running off old/past reputations is done. Put a fork in it.. HP(e) is done in the industry and marketpalce. I won't even put HP(e) on the short list for up coming projects.

well an employee who is RFW'd is no longer an employee.. and I think the point of the post is that this is the voice of a customer who surely has the most important view of all as they vote directly with their wallets which appears to have happened here.

Defenders of the faith please shout out if I have completely missed the point here.

You are using the tone and content of posts by people on a website about layoffs as a key indicator of what all employees think? Solid logic. I'm sure his site doesn't get just the whiners and haters.

Why don't you watch Fox News to get a fair idea of if Americans like Obama? Maybe talk to Iran to find out what people think of Israel.

as it WAS my customer i feel pretty well qualified to comment :)

rub of it was that HPE comes across these days as a company that has missed many boats including the BIG one - cloud. Composable infra is rehashed blah blah with an idiotic, meaningless how much weed were they smoking for that one question to be seriously asked. Why didn’t they just go the whole hog and call the disaster that is composable “Mozart”

A big part of the jump to GCP was about having little confidence that HPE could even get close to completing with google/AWS/Azure, innovation with proper, risk based R&D - now seen as memory of a bygone era with HPE.

Customer ran a pilot with GCP post a very successful migration to GMAIL and GDOCS and realized they should have started the move to cloud for core platform 2 years ago because the future belongs to the sensible.

When they figured out their trust in listening to us was stupidly misguided and took them backwards not forwards – they decided to severe all links with us on ANYTHING to do with the future of their cloud based technology decision making and when trust is gone – it stay gone.

As well as blowing my quota clean out of the sky for this fiscal, I just know I am going to get a win-back AND growth objective next year for this account. In the loss review was ANYONE else NOT on the side of the judge and jury – nope, this is all just one person’s fault. It was like something out a scene from an execution scene from a Tale of Two Cities although I could not actually see anybody knitting.

When the rails on the transit system look more attractive that a trip to the office - you know it’s time to get on your horse and get the hell out of Dodge.

@gnu - yep, we lost the customer...

HPE has lost the customer. Oblivion Megus is right!

Jeez louise - it doesn't get much clearer and direct than that. Warp factor 8 in hyperdrive to the galaxy called Oblivion Megus. Can anyone actually explain our cloud strategy or are we just making this S*&T up because we don’t actually have one which is my read on what the (ex)customer is actually saying..........