3par still growin strong
converged storage revenue up 42% year over year, last I saw HP considered that to be mostly 3PAR.
Traditional storage revenue down 17%.
HP has reported better than expected financial results on the back of strong server sales and – unexpectedly – good performance in the struggling PC market. The IT company reported an earnings-per-share of $0.90 and a net revenue of $28.2 billion on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter results, beating analyst expectations of …
"However, HP's recovery has come at a cost – the company is in the process of laying off 34,000 workers"
As sad as it is that so many people were affected, the vast majority of this process is pretty much complete. Most of the online articles seem to suggest this process is just starting out, whereas it started worldwide over two years ago.
Just sayin'
Just the other week, one of our projects involved a part of the business switching to Office 365, but noticed they were still buying full-fat desktop PCs rather than thin-clients or thinner PCs. When I asked the reseller he shrugged and said he has seen many such instances where customers are still buying hulking PCs instead of gear such as tablets. I guess many companies out there just like a heavy desktop seeing as the dip probably made them keep the last desktops they had for many more years than expected.