back to article What goes up but must come down? NetApp's customer invoices

Decline is setting in: NetApp's revenues are showing a distinctive downturn – and the latest quarterly numbers confirm the trend. Sales in the third quarter of 2015, which finished January 23, added up to US$1.55bn, which was 3.73 per cent down on the year-ago quarter's US$1.61bn. It was just half a per cent higher than Q2's …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Cdot

    Their relentless push for Cdot is another problem. Cdot 8.2 dosn't even allow cifs shares to be created in a microsoft MMC so if your a windows shop with lots of users your now retraining all your admins if you go to CDot before 8.3 comes out. And they refuse to develop SMB3 for 7 mode so its effectively rock or a hard place time.

    If you absolutely have to have SMB3 (because your management are windows 8 fanboys) then your going to a rival supplier for an integrated implementation. Otherwise for a windows shop you don't buy a new Netapp array.

    Also Cdots DR is crap compared to what you could do in 7 mode.

    So to sumarise...concentrating on Cdot at the expense of 7 mode before Cdots ready is forcing Windows Enterprises to go elsewhere

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Share purchase

    you would think $2.5bn would be better used on acquisitions to fill the holes in their offerings portfolio than on share repurchase. Short term limited goals as always

  3. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    NetApp should buy Maxta and throw resources at it. They can build a kernel module for VMware and use the Openstack/KVM side to try to make a play for hyperscale storage (which, quite frankly, Maxta's doign a reasonable job with.) Sure, Maxta isn't a huge player right now - they're no SimpliVity or Nutanix - but they make decent software and they're small enough to be dirt cheap.

    NetApp has the engineering resources to take Maxta and run with it, and - to be perfectly blunt - they need a solution to the hyperconvergence market, as this is where the growth is. Arrays will be around for a long time, but they'll be like mainframes. Increasingly niche and ultra-high end. The mainstream is going hyperconvergence...and NetApp just doesn't live there.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      NetApp + Acquisitions = funeral for acquired product/company

      1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

        Not if NetApp wants to actually survive.

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