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Nuclearmonkee posted:If you guessed the guys who invented the leveraged buyout with a long trail of destroyed companies in their wake, you'd be right!  eta: a page snipe I'll stand by
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Thanks Ants posted:It really feels like there's a moment for Microsoft and Citrix to step up and bother to compete but yeah, can't see it. Citrix already got sold to PE in 2022 and has seen nasty increases. MS really wants us to try out Azure Stack HCI + AVD and we're probably going to go pilot it. Weeeee It's not a great time to have a need for on prem VDI with vGPU.
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Had a phone screening today. Went great, dude said he had a ton of applicants and interviews to do, but told me I crushed it and was already shortlisted for the spot.  and moving may be in my future afterall. Pay is on low end of my acceptable range, but giant believer in internal promotion and it's government so it's probably not going away anytime soon. Could do worse. 75-80% remote and no on-call, too.
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Working on a job description, but realized I still had my old resume in the jobs platform so lol I hope they check if that's been updated.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Citrix already got sold to PE in 2022 and has seen nasty increases. MS really wants us to try out Azure Stack HCI + AVD and we're probably going to go pilot it. Weeeee Citrix dropped their SDWAN product not long after we started using it. So we moved to Vmware/Velo and look what happened. What is funny is Citrix likes to pretend they still have people around to support the Sdwan product, but everyone knows they are all gone. But we have a manager at work who is convinced that if we contact support, they'll fix a problem we are having.
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Feb 27, 2024 03:41
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One of the best decisions we made was to never contact Citrix but to call a consulting shop that specializes in Citrix whenever we have issues.
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Feb 27, 2024 03:51
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GreenNight posted:One of the best decisions we made was to never contact Citrix but to call a consulting shop that specializes in Citrix whenever we have issues. Our Citrix team has that for their stuff, but for the network gear, its just us.
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Feb 27, 2024 06:04
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Haha guess who Broadcom is selling VMWare EUC to. I'll be silently mourning Horizon. Been working with it and teaching it since it was VMware VDM 2.7
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CitizenKain posted:Citrix dropped their SDWAN product not long after we started using it. So we moved to Vmware/Velo and look what happened. Keep us posted on what you’re going to migrate to next, so we know what not to do 
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RFC posted:I'll be silently mourning Horizon. Been working with it and teaching it since it was VMware VDM 2.7
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Feb 27, 2024 14:13
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Looks like Broadcom is killing off CarbonBlack too!
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Feb 27, 2024 16:38
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Gotta source for that? drat i really liked CB before they got acquired.
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Feb 27, 2024 16:46
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Mustache Ride posted:Gotta source for that? it's already been spun off internally to stand on its own two feet, which trivially it cannot do CB will be written off as a massive loss recovery tax benefit at the sale price, so it's not even like our society is going to be compensated for the murder
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Feb 27, 2024 16:56
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but hey, so long as the looting and pillaging doesn't involve swords and guns, it's totally legal and that's what freedom looks like, right?
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Feb 27, 2024 16:58
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Foreign power: we are going to cripple the competitiveness of a very strong player in one of your larger industrial markets USA: oh my God yes Daddy please Daddy are you going to cut us a big check daddy?
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Feb 27, 2024 17:02
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Justice Department: can you provide more details for your business plan in the short and medium-term going forward with the acquisition? Broadcom: no, but we promise to lay off a ton of loving workers, punishing them f-- Justice Department: -- punishing them for having the gall to take advantage of a strong labor market, oh my God thank you so much 
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Feb 27, 2024 17:08
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Spinning off all the stuff that you gave away free to get big VMware deals over the line to be self-sufficient sounds like a great idea, come back to me when we've got all the evidence of it going really well
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Feb 27, 2024 17:26
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Mustache Ride posted:Gotta source for that? Theres a couple articles out there on it - https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/116899/carbon-black-no-longer-for-sale-broadcom-prepares-major-layoffs/ was the first that popped up for me.
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Feb 27, 2024 17:40
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Does anyone have experience with language translation earbuds or similar speech translation products? We're looking at a couple products from Timekettle, but can't get a good read on how well it actually works. Similarly, any recs for offline document translation programs? The client has concerns about leaking trade secrets to a third party, but we can live with the quality issues that come with a machine translation as long as it's fully offline.
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Feb 27, 2024 17:48
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OpenAI's Whisper Speech to Text can do translations I believe and you can see it up locally so it's fully offline?
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Feb 27, 2024 18:06
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Additionally huggingface will have more models for other things (like documents, OCR, etc) that can possibly be used offline as well
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Feb 27, 2024 18:10
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Potato Salad posted:it's already been spun off internally to stand on its own two feet, which trivially it cannot do If they don't sell it, I assume they'll strip it to the bone then fold it into Broadcom's amazing security product everyone likes, Symantec.
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Feb 27, 2024 18:42
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Presented to the whole org again, and you know what I really love? Last second schedule changes because a senior manager felt like it that means I presented a half hour before I was planned to. What's the point of an agenda if nobody follows it >.<
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Feb 27, 2024 18:53
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tokin opposition posted:Presented to the whole org again, and you know what I really love? Last second schedule changes because a senior manager felt like it that means I presented a half hour before I was planned to. What's the point of an agenda if nobody follows it >.< Look at mr fancy over here, with an "agenda"
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Feb 27, 2024 19:08
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Had one of those days today where you are just insanely productive. I knocked out some issues that were sitting on the backburner for months. One of those "good" days. Which means tomorrow....
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Feb 27, 2024 21:31
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You've earned that Do gently caress All day
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Feb 27, 2024 21:31
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Had one of those days today where you are just insanely productive. I knocked out some issues that were sitting on the backburner for months. One of those "good" days. ... you're doing precisely gently caress all useful work? and that's okay 
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Feb 27, 2024 21:41
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Hmm, definitely not what I was hinting at but I like the positive attitudes 
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Feb 27, 2024 21:52
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Hmm, definitely not what I was hinting at but I like the positive attitudes Makes sense, they'd expect you to do that everyday.
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CitizenKain posted:Citrix dropped their SDWAN product not long after we started using it. So we moved to Vmware/Velo and look what happened. can you give zscaler private access a look next
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post hole digger posted:can you give zscaler private access a look next 
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Ah wait, is VMware dropping Velo? My place uses that for half their sites lmao.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Ah wait, is VMware dropping Velo? My place uses that for half their sites lmao. I don't think they are dropping it, but our pricing for the rest of our sites we need to turn up essentially doubled from the last quote. Which is something we knew would happen, and why we requested we just get all the hardware in one go instead of waiting. LochNessMonster posted:Keep us posted on what you’re going to migrate to next, so we know what not to do Related story, all of our core switching is Juniper, and we had almost signed a contract to replace old gear with new stuff. Then HPE stepped in.
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CitizenKain posted:Related story, all of our core switching is Juniper, and we had almost signed a contract to replace old gear with new stuff. Then HPE stepped in. I’ve got just short of a decade of experience with very nice software that got bought by HP (pre HPE/HPI split). Support went from excellent to burning dumpster over the matter of a year. We went from early adaptor, being a reference case for them, speaking on conferences multiple times a year and my team having biweekly calls with their dev team to “computer-says-no”. Pricing went way up, of course. Development of the products stalled and eventually they sold it again. By the looks of it, it’s gaining some traction again as I’m getting recruiters asking me if I still work with those applications.
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CitizenKain posted:... I completely forgot that HPE is hoovering up Juniper. Blegh
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Obligatory - Extreme has pretty good gear these days, and shortest path bridging is a game changer for network design.
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My favorite tickets are “please exclude the President of the company like we do the CEO from our security policies as they don’t want to be inconvenienced.” Just swell.
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We just got our E&Y security assessment that was ordered by our PE backers and it is shittier and less comprehensive than the one we got for free from some MSP that is trying to get our business. God consulting is such a scam lol
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Feb 28, 2024 16:46
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The big 4 really is nothing but grift
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