Heard that Dell will sell Avamar&Networker employees to HCL. Dell still owns the Avamar&Networker product but Dell plans to force the employees to sign with HCL as outsourcing workers.
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Now it's 3 years later and reduction changes continue. 25% of NetWorker engineering (now employed at HCL and contracting back to Dell) including me (one of those "sold" to HCL in April 2021), were just laid off 2 days ago, because Dell unsurprisingly slashed the engineering budget. NW has perhaps 2 releases left before it will likely end. RecoverPoint has been put on maintenance only and Avamar has been reduced to 1 release per year. So I go into my 2nd retirement after retiring in 2017, getting bored and rejoining in 2018. I will miss the camaraderie with my team, only some of whom I met only once in 5 years, since we all work remotely all over North America. There are a good bunch and I wish them well. It's been enjoyable.
Avamar and Networker have been a dead product for years. If EMC had any clue they would build the backup smarts into the Data Domain base, Not IDPA thats a POS.
Better yet get rid of backup all together and do snapshot's on storage with support to replicate and recall to the Cloud, ECS
Completely expected considering the amazing leadership in India. More about visibility than actual work
Good riddance. Avamar was place infested with nepotism and management which was heavily biased giving advantage to some very specific ethnic group(s).
Yes, this is correct at least for NetWorker. Eng only (I am one, based in US). Very creative way to do layoffs without the legal hassle and cost. Since transfer requests for affected employees are being denied, it's either move to HCL or find a new job outside of Dell/EMC. This is quite different from all prior layoffs I've seen at Dell/EMC (27 years...) where transfer requests were encouraged. So now I become an HCL employee as of April 1, 2021, working essentially as a contractor for Dell, doing the exact same thing I was already doing for supposedly the same or higher pay (those details have not yet been emailed.)
No TSE impact, Engineering only
Is it only the escalation and dev teams or are TSE also being moved to HCL? DELL already moved the SRM escalation and dev teams to HCL over a year ago but not the TSE.
time to bolt.
Recover Point is part of the deal. It seems Dell starts outsourcing the legacy products and focusing on the "XX as a service". which means there will be more and more products to be outsourced. So guys to be prepared
They bought the company for a buck fifty. Surprised it's even still there.