Channel Beat: With Split Looming, HP To Lay Off As Many As 30,000

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to lay off as many as 30,000 employees with hopes of cutting costs by $2 billion. Those layoffs come after the company let 55,000 employees go as part of a three -year restructuring plan.

HP Enterprise 's COO announced the layoffs this week, and many of the cut jobs will be from the T echnology S ervices group the company developed from the past EDS acquisition. HP Enterprise , which will be independent in November, expects servers, storage and networking to drive fiscal growth in 2016.

Many partners were in favor of the cutbacks. HP Enterprise also will launch a new Enterprise Partner Ready Program on Nov. 1.

Strong cloud business wasn ' t enough to buoy Oracle in the first financial quarter of this year -- the company ' s revenue numbers dropped.

Oracle ' s revenue was down 2 percent from the same quarter last year. Software and hardware numbers both dropped from 2015, while services e ked up 1 percent. Cloud software revenue was the bright spot of the earnings -- cloud infrastructure as a service jumped 16 percent.

This week, Accenture moved to acquire Cloud Sherpas, one of the fastest-growing cloud solution providers in the world.

In 2015 , Cloud Sherpas grew 289 percent, and more than 1,100 employees from the company will become part of Accenture ' s new team. With the deal, Accenture will get another 500 Salesforce.com experts, and it should expand Accenture ' s cloud capabilities .

PUBLISHED SEPT. 18, 2015