Dell only cares about storage followed by AI servers, nothing else matters. The traditional server business has almost been destroyed and I am guessing that it will soon lose its number one standing in the industry. I am certain that Dell does not care and the people associated to these products will eventually be let go. SAD!!!
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look at the market
Massive - exponential - growth in servers, flat to modest growth in storage
You have to gear up to sell what the market wants, not what you think the market needs.
Around a dozen I9/I10 product managers have left PowerEdge in the past 18mths, out of like ~50 total product manager slots (servers, commodities, etc.)
Turnover is so bad they've finally had to open externally, because the bench talent was already exhausted and many of those younger kids are leaving too.
Morale is in the toilet.
The core product planners left have been here 30 years and simply plug in the next generation of CPU and go while market share in core tanked for several years.
The only "innovation" happening is senior management squeezing every ounce of effort out of the team. Of course you can get more done when folks are going 80 hrs a week with CONSTANTLY changing targets.
Fake news. Poweredge servers are still in demand its just that the refresh cycle is being pushed back a little due to major spending in AI servers which is the case for all server vendors.
Just curious, it's been a while since I was at Dell. What specifically has changed within PowerEdge that would say that the traditional server business has been destroyed? Have they ki-led any product categories or fallen behind?
What? You telling me Round Rock TX is not the epicenter of innovation?
Anything to do with AI Servers is being sold at a brisk rate. Delivery of those servers to the customer? That's another thing. It's industry wide. Companies have over rated so much on AI Servers that once this bubble pops, you will see huge swing in sales back to or below anything resembling normal.
Dell only knows and deals with legacy, traditional storage architectures. That's the EMC folks.
Dell is sooooo far behind the competition in terms of modern, scale-out, cloud and object-based storage architectures.
When more and more companies move to the cloud and modern storage infrastructures, Dell is sc--wed.