Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

SIEM and Arcsight in particular are actually quite hard things to get right and make it deliver an effective service. It needs a lot more than basic skills and requires a deep knowledge of the environment you are monitoring.

Which of course means DXC spectacularly fails.

Arcsight is also super expensive, so what we offer is poor value at a high price.

Customers do pay it though as even with a useless service it ticks a box for external audit. Worth those dollars just for that...

SIAM = ArcSight or 'ArcShite' for those in the know. DXC SOC capabilities around this sytem are woeful and extend back to the disgrace that was CSC. Govt agencies have been trying to move away for years but have no experience in this area and have a poor track record with tools such as Splunk.
The main reason DXC is shrinking quarter on quarter is due to internal politics and pi-s poor management. Anybody worth their salt has already left or are hanging on in the hope of being made redundant. Younger IT people are subject to the most appalling employment practises. Any organisation looking to outsource should perform due dligence and not just be su-ked in by lowest cost solutions offerd by Snake Oil dealers such as DXC. Security is not cheap, it has never been cheap and it never will be cheap.

Redundancy package incoming..... hopefully
Lets see how many uptick this

Both DXC staff and BAE need to rid themselves of DXC policy, processes and practices, shift the people and kit to CG or whoever, and get some processes that actually work. You can't get a thing done round here. Mosely because nobody cares, because it's seemingly irrelevant what we do or don't do. The only reward for doing well is more work.

Service Desk (and extended SIAM, whatever that means, BAE aren't saying) is going to CG. DXC are keeping hosting and the rest was up for bidding.

It seems that CG have also won the EUC contract. To be honest all the internal Perseus updates have been shocking and BAE either haven't got a clue or don't want to tell their own staff as it sounds like some of them will be going to CG too.

Networks is out for tender. Last we heard Orange, BT, AT&T, Vodafone and Fujitsu were bidding but I know some have since dropped for various reasons.

same story as at all other major DXC clients around the globe - all the future facing areas (all AI related, SIAM, cloud etc) are being taken off DXC and given to other vendors or in-sourced, and legacy too-hard-and-too-risky-to-move infra stays with DXC to slowly run down over next 5-10 years.

That's why DXC is shrinking quarter on quarter but not so quickly it will disappear anytime soon. Its also a reflection on the failure of the IT industry as a whole to migrate everything to cloud, some legacy apps and infra make more sense being left where they are, until they are ultimately replaced outright rather than risk migrations