Posts by TheBorg

What goes around comes around ..

Well ... this couldn't happen to a nicer company or group of execs who have systematically creamed all value out of what could have been a big player in IT services. I was lucky enough to be paid to leave just before HPE ES merged with CSC to form DXC. The HPE ES account team (for Deutsche Bank) were a bunch of cowboys who treated the staff like something on their shoe, it was clear (and I saw the plan) to ditch us all for offshore at the earliest opportunity. Deutsche Bank senior management knew that but they didn't care because we had all been transferred to HPE ES.

I hope the case goes in the investors favour - its time some execs face the reality of their lies and deceit.

I am sure Accenture can advise something, probably .... just make sure you're ready for a fat over inflated bill :)

Turd polishing .... contaner data centres, cheap build with no proper DC design. No wonder it all went pear shaped. The founders sound like evangelists where in fact they are purveyors of cheap and nasty.

As with most things outsource, it will be an unmitigated disaster .... declared a success by the senior councillors involved and nothing will probably be better than it is now. Putting all your eggs into a KPMG basket indicates total passing of responsibility and KPMG shiny suited grads will not have a clue about how to design, implement or run anything.

Its not just IT companies that are rubbish at deletion of accounts and access. I rejoined Deutsche Bank in 2013 having left them in 2006. Upon my return HR queried whether I had worked for them before as they just re enabled my HR account .... it included my next of kin / emergency contact which was my deceased mother (she passed in 2006 just before I left for the second time) . Surprised that they had not deleted my details ... Not really. :)

If somethings important, back it up ! If you don't and it's lost then your stupid !

You can't trust cloud providers with anything really sensitive or valuable.

It should be a national system that is integrated, not a regional or smaller solution. The NHS should by now use national systems where medical records can be used to treat patients wherever they happen to be. It's still a ball ache to move areas and get your records to follow.

Glad to see that CSS is still running on those mainframes - In 1995 when I was at Bletchley they told us it would all transfer to open systems ...... we laughed at them then, seems we understood more than the manglement :)

Not surprised the banks are using a third party ... save them fucking it up themselves !

These FX companies like Travelex are dinosaurs - unless you want cash use someone like Transferwise - App based, a debit card that can have multiple currency accounts to use from it with MUCH better rates than these crooks. If you need some cash then use the debit card to withdraw from standard cash points.

oops .... duff code written by people with no real sense of the real IT world. what happened to transaction logging and decent DR/BCP

Turd polishing for professionals .... written by Mr Lawrie, an insight into how to take a perfectly good company and crash it into the IT swamp !

I'm 53 and have forgotten more in my 35 year career than most millennials will ever know :)

Sounding a bit like DXC .... send it all offshore and hope it all works .... disaster

Not surprising .... half cocked project managers, lot's of pressure to deliver in timescales not achievable ... time for Mr Pester (great name!) to walk and give another clueless overpaid half wit a chance :)

Two of my ex colleagues are currently being targeted for VR - they were sorted from a fuzzy skills matrix created by an ex manager and enhanced by a management team in India who have no engagement with the particular two individuals .... it's guesswork and bullshit !

Possibly that they are rubbish ? :)

Clowns !! The senior management need to be behind bars - especially those who dumped their stock before the public announcement.

This company deserves to crash and burn

Race to the bottom of services ... oh, they are already there :)

Lets face it, grads in IT are usually project managers and you can get those in a cornflakes packet these days.

Whitman does not know how to grow a business - just to split it up and watch it die slowly ..... not the right match for Uber

Turd polishing and deck chair shuffling .... Can't be long before Meg buggers off with the payoff of the century ?

Same old story it seems these days - large organisations that can't design a highly available system to run their critical applications to continue operating and not suffer very public loss of reputation.

Comes down to senior management not having a clue, spotty grads pretending to be architects and from there it all goes tits up !

In my mainframe days (yes, another dinosaur), we didn't have these issue, data centres were designed properly and though very expensive we had back up generators and alternate systems in case of fail over.

Added to this the TCS factor = clueless bodies who can't make a decision and likely have never even been into a data centre.

I don't believe the power supply story either :)

Clueless management and clueless (mostly) offshore teams made working for HPE unbearable. Thankfully, they gave me money to leave.

The WORST IT organisation i have worked for in my 34 years of IT .... DXC Technology will no doubt be the worst of the combined companies and it will continue to not deliver the service that the foolish customers have signed up for.

it will all end in tears ... except for Meg who will trundle off into the distance with her mega millions payoff - what a wonderful leader she has been !

Race to the bottom of IT service companies - cash quick for the 12 directors !

The offshore team in HPE are dire, i expect the same for CSC

Guichelaar is a snake in the grass. Left Deutsche under a cloud after the HP deal was signed. Known as the smiling assassin during the TUPE negotiations.