I'm not a VMware employee. I'm an alliance partner. What I'm seeing is that most of these cuts are coming from vCloud Air. Is VMware giving up on that product? My perception originally was that vCloud Air would be rolled into Virtustream. Of course that whole idea blew up in VMW and EMCs faces. Now it seems that VMware may be giving up..
So I'm wondering now if I should just send my customers to AWS or Azure for anything that isn't private.
Former VMW worker here too. Don't pretend that vCA will 'survive'. There were several 'internal only' tools and applications that were obviously on the way to supporting vCA. They were dumped without a single notification to the user base inside the company. They left the servers on but completely unmanaged, and when problems arose, they pretty much just laughed at the problems they created. Shipping every job imaginable overseas was NEVER a solution, but that is the solution when every penny needs to scream and all the same-ol-same-ol tech needs to just be polished up and pretending that its new and happy all over again. Stupidity is as stupidity does.
Translation: vCloud Air is losing badly and is on the path to getting shut down.
Any statement coming out of Pat's mouth about "vCloud growth" is either: a) a straight up lie or, b) cooking the books to a nice golden brown.
Steer clear of vcloud air. You will only piss off your customers when Dell/VMware pulls the plug because vcloud is so far behind AWS/Azure they won't/can't catch up. Vcloud is already losing money hand over fist which means they can only make limited investments while AWS/Azure have already invested billions and will spend billions more. Vcloud will get killed just like HP killed their public cloud. The only surprise was that they didn't announce that today.
Most of the cuts are not from vCloud Air. It's a small part. Its across the company similar to what we did in 2013. Re-distribution of positions a lot of people will come back as they did in 2013. When you grow at the rate we are continuing to grow sometimes you get a little ahead of yourself. In reality it sucks we all lost people we know but it could be a lot worse than 900 jobs cut.
Nope - vCloudAir stays.....
It was pulled back from VS deal due to stock / M.Dell. Wait for couple of hours for the announcement in earning's call about the focus areas.
it was suppose to have been spun off last october but the dell deal stalled it and now just a matter of time
Having been hit with the layoff, I reflected on my experience when joining the company, the years in between, and the road to the end. It was a much smaller company 10 years ago with the feeling of a family - everyone watched out for others. But that started to fade as the company grew and the periodic layoffs started, which is now up to one or more per year. One could say "that's just growing pains", or as the head of HR loved to say "We hired even more that we laid off." That is poor comfort to those on the chopping block. Internally they always pushed for education, but in the end that didn't matter. To be told in the same day that you were at almost double achievement on the plan, and you're out of a job show a lack of vision. VMware will be missed as it fades into the dustbin of history (pardon the cliche) having missed emerging technology trends and loosing the camaraderie of a family.
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Only time will teml