Re: I'm guessing....
FYI, last I heard 3Par US was being sent overseas.
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I saw many of the same things. It was also reflected in high management churn and sales force churn. How does the company expect to survive without good leadership and an effective sales force. The current impression I get is of a company run by spreadsheet monkeys. No vision or leadership, just trying to prop things up while sales erode.
She's as bad or worse than Carly, and more dangerous then Carly as she is more likable. You are right, the only skill she has is "realigning cost structure" to keep the share price up. In the mean time products and services are gutted and the sales force has been so mad at HP over 50% have left year over year. In a year or two the chickens will come home to roost.
What Brexit, and Trump, was about was about people who were worse off due to "Globalisation" (which it isn't by the way, globalisation has been around since at least the 1600's) but large numbers of people getting kicked to the curb by a small elite. I used to believe in "Globalization" when I thought it would lead to higher wages and better health, education, and environmental protection for everyone. But of course that doesn't happen. Instead you have poverty and exploitation, gutted health codes, crumbling infrastructure, massive illegal immigration (NAFTA sparked a huge immigration problem in the US), and destruction of the environment. All while wealth is concentrated into the hands of fewer people.
That is the real problem, everything else is just window dressing. Brexit, and election of Trump, as symptoms. Let's focus on the real problem shall we, and find a real solution.
What about the sales team, e.e. the enormous churn. If HPE had a sales team the company might make money. But no, we don't know how to sell. We don't know how to retain a sales force and keep our channel partners happy. All we know how to do is fore people to keep the books looking good while we collect bonuses.
And you have no concept of what happens when people get economically kicked to the curb. Look at who voted to exit. The people who got none of the "Globalization" benefits. Only the London area voted to stay, from the maps I saw, the rest of the country felt economically disenfranchised because they were. And when you have two generations of young men who were economically emasculated you will see some nasty things crawl out of the gutter, e.g. attacks on immigrants. What is needed is an economy which works for people, not one that increases GDP by destroying lives.
Looking at all the companies cutting jobs it seems to me much of the tech sector is heading for a recession. In addition you have people like Meg Whitman referring to the US as the "high cost geography", Are we seeing the end of tech opportunity in the US and Europe?
Right now with the weaker pound reducing the cost of labor in Britain Brexit may be the best thing to happen to Britain in quite some time.
Infrastructure dwindling? Just because data and computing is moved to "The Cloud" does not mean that infrastructure is dwindling. I fact it may grow. The cloud needs infrastructure. You can't cheat the laws of physics, data must be stored somewhere and CPUs must have a home as well. There is money to be made in infrastructure. I smell it.
It also makes sense to spin off companies which are not core. HP Software has been struggling for sometime, managing software can be very difficult and HPE knows hardware but not software. Also, Whitman has said she wants a nimble company. A large company cannot be nimble. So paring companies down might be a good move.
a 10k USD or pound mistake can kill a small company. Or losing one big customer. So that is not really a valid argument, that there is less risk, when scaled for size it amounts to the same thing. What is valid, I think, is that small startups often do not have as much invested in legacy systems. The can safely adopt the shiney shiney new stuff since they do not have to worry about what happens if a large (to them) migration fails. Once you have critical data in a system migrating becomes risky and you *need* a good business case, regardless of size.
1) Read the the labels. Work out the max amperage before you plug the things in.
2) Load balancing is not just for servers, it is also for electrical circuits. Learn how to do it. Don't forget the air conditioning while you are at it. If it means running extension cords until an electrician can come in so be it.
3) Bring server on one at a time. Seriously, there should be a sequence such as networking gear first, then DNS and other critical servers, DB and application servers, etc.
4) Monitoring software! Not just to start spewing emails when the UPS kicks in but also if gear starts to fail or overheat.
Think, plan, then execute.