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and logical build on an actual VCE manufacturing floor, previous deployments in 2009 and early 2010 of what were called or referred to as Vblock (often with various use of upper and lower case spelling) are not considered to be Vblock by some pundits and infrastructure professionals since these so-called reference architectures varied greatly from project to project when compared to late 2010 manufactured Vblock. Anecdotally, institutions and companies using Vblock have been involved in published testimonials.
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The Vblock 100 was designed to host up to 200 virtual machines in a 24U or 42U rack mount space with up to eight Cisco C220 M3 blade servers, two Cisco
Catalyst 3750-X switches and up to 8 TB of storage capacity on an EMC VNXe3150 or VNXe3300 array. The Vblock 200 comes configured with up to 12 Cisco
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storage rather than EMC Symmetrix VMAX. Vblock 0, the intended low-end configuration, was projected for release in 2010 to support 300 to 800 virtual machines and use a similar configuration, but with EMC Celerrastorage. The term "infrastructure package" was later changed to "infrastructure platform"
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Systems sold. Because of the lack of a manufactured physical
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February 2015. The first model is the VxRack 1032 based on EMC ScaleIO software defined storage. The second model was announced at VMware World in September 2015, called the VxRack 1034 based around VMware VSAN. Both models use commodity
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using Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000v and multilayer director switches (MDS), as well as EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage and VMware vSphere software. Vblock 1, intended for the midmarket, was designed for 800 to 3,000 virtual machines and had had a similar configuration to the Vblock 2, but with EMC
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filings, EMC accounted for a cumulative loss of over $ 430 million by
September 2012, and Cisco a loss of $ 457 million by early 2013, since revenues are recorded to the owning companies, not VCE itself. EMC reported an investment of $ 667.2 million in cash and $ 13.2 million in stock-based
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February 2013. It combined a Vblock System with SAP HANA in-memory computing and database application software. Later in September 2013 VCE introduced specialized system for high performance database for Oracle as well as extreme applications for both VMware and Citrix VDI environments.
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The Vblock System 700 LX was announced at the EMC World May 2012 trade show, as the most expensive Vblock System, supporting thousands of virtual machines. VCE introduced the inclusion of EMC software for backup, recovery, replication, business continuity and data mobility for virtualized
281:, VCE had a 57.4% share of integrated infrastructure systems in the second quarter of 2012 based on revenue. Gartner had previously tracked server, networking, and external controller-based storage as individual markets. VCE was named one of the “2013 Virtualization 50” by
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Infrastructure Packages in a standardized and repeatable fashion for customer
247:. In July 2012, Cisco executive Praveen Akkiraju was appointed CEO and Frank Hauck as president. It was estimated VCE had 1200 employees at the time, with undisclosed revenues but accumulated losses. Publicized customers included
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Infrastructure Packages. The partnership was originally called the VMware-Cisco-EMC alliance, though the name was later shortened to VCE, for the “Virtual Computing Environment coalition”.
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workload mobility and business continuity software, as well as support for new features in EMC Unified
Infrastructure Manager, improved VMware integration, and centralized monitoring of multiple Vblock Systems.
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300: In contrast to the 0, 1, 1U later series were produced in manufacturing centers and then installed within a customer data center or colocation data center by a VCE partner or professional services
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180:. EMC acquired a 90% controlling stake in VCE from Cisco in October 2014, giving it majority ownership. VCE ended in 2016 after an internal division realignment, followed by the sale of EMC to
270:. Cisco had announced its own "framework" called CloudVerse in late 2011 that was not specific to VMware. In August 2012, EMC announced a VSPEX reference architecture and partnership with
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1546:"Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware: Integrated Systems, 1Q11-2Q12"
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1364:"The VCE Gamble: You Got To Know When To Hold 'Em, Know When To Fold 'Em"
1125:"VCE, Major Cloud Computing Company, Plans Major Expansion in Richardson"
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1608:"Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?"
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1442:"Cisco CloudVerse: Build One Private Cloud, Multiple Hypervisors"
858:"Cisco, EMC Form Acadia Joint Venture for Data Centers (Update3)"
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1468:"EMC Lenovo Deal Raises Questions For EMC-Cisco VCE Partnership"
1131:. VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company. March 15, 2011
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913:"Cisco, EMC, VMware Channel Chiefs Talk Up Vblock Partner Play"
802:"A Most Interesting IT Experiment: The History (So Far) Of VCE"
2286:"Partners Welcome Appointment Of EMC Veteran As VCE President"
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1073:"VCE Coalition Combines with Acadia, Simplifies Name to VCE"
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1966:"Cloud computing allows companies to outsource IT services"
1152:"Cloud computing allows companies to outsource IT services"
255:. The press debated if the venture should be considered a "
1938:"Is VCE a Flailing Startup? A Study of Snark in New Media"
1338:"Is VCE a Flailing Startup? A Study of Snark in New Media"
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Vblock 300 FX at VCE (company) booth during CA World 2011.
1312:"Vblocks bleed out EMC money: VCE = virtual cash erosion"
1285:"Vblock Video Success Story – MS Community College Board"
2210:"VCE FastPath Platform Simplifies VDI on Vblock Systems"
2184:"VCE's FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform is Here"
1952:"VCE FastPath Platform Simplifies VDI on Vblock Systems"
1924:"Recent videos | page 1 of 69 | Light Reading"
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Chad Berndtson and Joseph F. Kovar (November 26, 2012).
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Vblock systems consist of storage and provisioning from
1390:"Cisco's 3-ring circus: Xsigo CEO on bait and switches"
1203:"VCE Appoints Praveen Akkiraju Chief Executive Officer"
827:"Virtual Computing Environment coalition-VCE coalition"
587:, and EMC RecoverPoint. The Vblock System 700 included
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1661:"Quarterly Report for period ended September 30, 2012"
714:. 2016-01-06. Archived from the original on 2017-12-15
2312:"Exclusive With Cisco's Lloyd: Take A Look At Us Now"
1688:"Quarterly Report for Quarter ended January 26, 2013"
1634:"Cisco, EMC tout VCE market share, but report losses"
1048:"Capellas-led coalition making strides by the Vblock"
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887:"Cisco and EMC Form Venture to Serve Data Centers"
243:, close to VCE's EMC-owned manufacturing plant in
1686:Cisco Systems, Incorporated (February 19, 2013).
1260:"Taking College IT Out of the Hardware Business"
583:environments. Applications included EMC Avamar,
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2699:Defunct computer companies of the United States
1759:"VCE Drives Simplification Past $ 1B - Wikibon"
1520:"EMC Intends VSPEX for Data Center Flexibility"
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712:"EMC Appoints Chad Sakac as President of VCE"
374:The company initially manufactured converged
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459:EMC provides storage and provisioning
1833:Joseph F. Kovar (February 21, 2013).
1416:"Cisco's Bigger Bundle of Networking"
1291:. Venture Technologies. July 11, 2012
1258:Bridget McCrea (September 15, 2011).
939:"Capellas to Run Cisco, EMC Ventures"
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1745:"VCE Stars in EMC Financial Results"
1659:EMC Corporation (November 2, 2012).
1440:Charles Babcock (December 8, 2011).
1209:. VCE. July 19, 2012. Archived from
1150:Priyanka Dayal (December 11, 2011).
911:Joseph F. Kovar (November 3, 2009).
856:Rochelle Garner (November 3, 2009).
800:Joseph F. Kovar (October 12, 2012).
2704:Defunct computer hardware companies
1980:"VCE Taps Cisco Veteran as New CEO"
1234:"VCE Taps Cisco Veteran As New CEO"
1176:Brandon Butler (October 13, 2011).
253:Mississippi Community College Board
2284:Joseph F. Kovar (March 31, 2011).
2163:Charles Babcock (April 12, 2012).
1632:Larry Dignan (February 21, 2013).
1466:Joseph F. Kovar (August 2, 2012).
1414:Quentin Hardy (December 6, 2011).
1388:Chris Mellor (February 24, 2012).
1264:Campus Technology digital magazine
1046:John Webster (December 20, 2010).
289:Securities and Exchange Commission
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994:Steve Kaplan (October 19, 2010).
781:. Cisco Systems. November 3, 2009
684:"Why EMC acquired VCE from Cisco"
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1606:Joseph F. Kovar (May 27, 2013).
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1994:"Converged Infrastructure (CI)"
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1310:Chris Mellor (August 8, 2011).
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484:VMware provides virtualization
414:and then just "Vblock System".
330:Cisco Unified Computing Systems
115:Vblock, VxBlock, VxRack, VxRail
2182:Aaron Delp (August 29, 2011).
1518:Larry Walsh (April 12, 2012).
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