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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by pm90 on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:54AM (#15312708)
The cloud market is super competitive right now. HP tried to develop its own OpenStack based cloud but AFAIK it didn't turn out very well at all.

I'm wondering what their strategy is going forward. Are they still in the cloud business or are they gonna stick to the hardware/server side of things.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by Top19 on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:25AM (#15313007)
Their mistake was buying this cloud company, Attunity, for $11 billion, and then realizing the company had completely defrauded them with fraudulent accounting. They had to do a 100% write-off.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by eppsilon on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:32PM (#15315537)
I think you mean Autonomy?
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by nepotism2018 on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:56AM (#15312730)
Like many, HP didn't know what openstack is for (on-premise or public cloud)
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by phillu on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:59AM (#15312759)
Can you explain what you mean? What is OpenStack for?
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by vthallam on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:11AM (#15312868)
Probably, the comment meant that OpenStack works best only in specific scenarios, like Private Cloud for Enterprises with strict compliance and regulatory requirements. Rackspace seems to be trying to do more in this area.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by nepotism2018 on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:24AM (#15312998)
vthallam cleared up what I meant, apologies
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by jonathantm on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:15AM (#15312908)
Yes. Very.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by rosege on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:32AM (#15313068)
I know of 2 banks that bought an OpenStack private cloud solution from HP and even though they were over a year apart HP could not get it working for either one and had to change at least the hypervisor to VMware
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