Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/ai-play-pure-storage-soars-22percent-after-touting-it-won-a-contract-with-an-unnamed-big-tech-company.html

Obviously because we weren't in the office enough...

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@2gbs+1vLWcSFg in several European countries we're losing STO market share not to cloud, but to HW competitors.
IBM is butchering us in the mid-market, where companies often don't need fancy features, but just cheap storage capacity, and IBM gets on the market 1.5-2 times cheaper in terms of ppTB.
We ran several simulations on PowerStore 500 and 1200, and to match IBM's FlashSystems pricing we should sell with negative margin.

Cloud needs storage. It's the same principal, just not on prem.

Its the cloud you dopes.....i meet with dozens of customers a month, many of which I have covered for decades, many of which spent tens of millions a year with EMC on infrastructure.....no more....they have all moved to the cloud, and I mean to the tune of massive customer data centers being closed. Have you not noticed layoffs also occurring at our customer sites....the cloud....as much as we all would like to blame Dell for all of our layoff woes.....it is the cloud.....the company practically never loses to the competition on product, however we lose all the time...to the cloud. If I had any more than 2 years before i retire, I'd be working very, very hard at finding a job NOT at a hardware company. Yes, Dell's future is PCs, and cheap data center hardware, NO CUSTOMERS are willing to pay a premium for storage systems these days, no matter how good they are. Is anyone still buying great VCRs to watch movies these days?? Heck no, we all get our content from.....the cloud. Same with our customers.....

@1egi+1vLWcSFg

Dell Axim, DJ, Ditty, Streak, Mini, Venue, all DOA.

The poet below mine is the best one here in a long time

Anyone who has owned a Lenovo & Dell will wax lyrical about how superior the Lenovo is to Dell. I have been buying Lenovo ever since EMC introduced them 10 years ago. I will tell anyone who asks to stay miles away from Dell laptops as I hate even using it for work. #iworkfordell

As I've tried to explain to coworkers who are shocked at the WFRs, this company acquired EMC to get into the enterprise space. EMC had products with high margins, both hardware and software, which companies were gladly willing to pay because EMC was the best in numerous areas. Along comes Dell paying good money for EMC and then, instead of focusing on continuing and enhancing these product lines, their main goal was to cheapen things by pushing everything to PowerEdge and outsourcing software development to a company that was clueless about what the product did since they only know how to program (on a good day). They stripped the EMC name off as soon as they could so now customers only see Dell servers with so-so software. By moving to PowerEdge, we're now handing over major amounts of revenue to the key component makers, like Intel, AMD and Nvidia, not to mention Samsung and other vendors for memory and disks. This whole model is stupid and will ruin profits for years to come. As for laptops, if you listened to the earnings call, they bemoaned the fact that the PC refresh hasn't started yet and retail sales are pathetic. I'd like to drag the ELT into most any store selling laptops and ask them why Dell laptops are way in the minority compared to HP, Lenovo and others. It's like Dell doesn't exist for the average consumer.

I'll leave you with my favorite saying these days, "Bain is the bane of our existence these days!"

Leadership in the ISG business unit is a train wreck. At some point continually to WFRing old, white or expensive to bolster the bottom line does not help anymore and you cannot hide leadership incompetence.

failed at PDA and MP3 devices too

I wish they'd drop the Alienware line in particular

Dell acquired some great storage products from EMC. Sadly, due to lack of strategic thinking and leadership, they let them atrophy. Now they are trying to play catch-up. A good start would be to fire Travis and anyone remotely associated with Dell's storage strategy over the past 5 years

@zcn+1vLWcSFg

Good point. Dell isn't tech.
Its factory and assembly

It’s all they want to do/be. They only want to move commodity hardware and to size and align resources to that effect. They’ve been dancing with this for decades between being IBM or Walmart - they’ve chosen Walmart. Unless you’re very late in your career or you want to build a career in a sweatshop for supply chain skills, then just leave asap.

My family ended up getting Apple for our laptop needs and that's despite having the employee discount.
Yes. The hubris is incredible. Dell is a cheap low budget outfit.

Only because you are unable or unwilling to influence the kind of change and thought processes necessary to get things done. It's your fault